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Trip report from Non Profit Bar Camp Austin

{ Posted on Nov 18 2009 by annegentle }

Tags : 2009, Austin, BarCamp, non profit, nonprofit, npo, npocamp, space:room8109, Texas, time:1030, unconference, web analytics
Categories : nptech, social media

I could only attend Non Profit Bar Camp Austin in the morning, but it was quite enjoyable. Bar Camp is definitely one of those meetings where the conversations had between the sessions can as informative as the actual sessions. I arrived ...Read More »

Embrace the “un”

{ Posted on Jan 17 2009 by annegentle }

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Tags : BarCamp, book, Book Sprint, BookSprint, community, publishing, sprint, unconference, wiki
Categories : social media, techpubs, wiki

An article that Janet Swisher and I wrote for STC Intercom magazine about unconferences, BarCamps, and Book Sprints is available as a PDF file from the stc.org site if you are an STC member. I have permission to post it ...Read More »

DocTrain West 2008 – How was the unconference?

{ Posted on May 10 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : BarCamp, doctrainwest, unconference
Categories : writing

In a word - energizing! I had completed my two shared talks - the Wiki roundtripping talk at 2 in the afternoon, with the next talk being at 3:30 when I moderated the Meet the bloggers panel. I had been ...Read More »

Amazing conversations and meeting amazing people at SXSW Interactive

{ Posted on Mar 12 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : BarCamp, barcampaustin, documentation, Lombardi, meebo, sxsw, sxsw2008, sxswi, Tom Parish, wiki, Ynema Mangum, youtube
Categories : writing

South by Southwest Interactive is a big web design/blogging conference in downtown Austin. There are thousands of people here for it in 2008. It's crazy busy. The latest excitement was in a friend's panel where people tried to stage an uprising ...Read More »

Stories from SXSWi 2008 – BarCamp Austin III (BarCampAustin3)

{ Posted on Mar 10 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : Austin, BarCamp, barcampaustin, education, fedora, kids, laptop, OLPC, qemu, technical writing, XO
Categories : sxsw

Steve Carl already wrote up his notes from BarCamp Austin and I enjoyed his viewpoint very much. This was only my second BarCamp experience, and this year, I decided to take the plunge and actually volunteer to present. Whurley was ...Read More »

Taking the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop to the preschool classroom

{ Posted on Mar 02 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : Austin, BarCamp, computers, education, laptop, OLPC, one laptop per child, preschool, teacher, teaching, XO laptop
Categories : OLPC

What can you teach with the XO laptop? I'm still pondering that question for US-based classrooms. I'm reading the news from Birmingham Alabama and the blog entries from Dallas-Fort Worth Texas school systems with interest. Apparently you can buy a ...Read More »

SXSW Interactive 2006 takeaways

{ Posted on Mar 17 2006 by annegentle }

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Tags : BarCamp, barcamp austin, sxswi
Categories : talk.bmc

South by SouthWest Interactive is done, what did I learn? This year's Interactive conference was interesting to say the least, because I was too sick to attend two day's worth of sessions. So, I've been listening to ...Read More »