Florida Creatives – Creating a Community of Innovation

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Come and learn about Drupal!

This is the 2nd annual DrupalCamp Florida held in Altamonte, FL. Open Source software tools are a great resource for companies and organizations to cost-effectively connect, communicate, and organize members using the Internet. One of these free tools for website creation and management is Drupal, a content management system that uses a modular approach that allows organizations to easily customize their websites and use blogs, video and user content to build their communities.

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GET READY to Have Your Creative Juices Kicked Up.

Learn from our own Cameron Thorp, internationally acclaimed local graphic artist, illustrator, and photographer, a true artistic master. He was an understudy to internationally renowned illustrator Thomas Blackshear. His amazing drawing and painting talent has been compared to Norman Rockwell. His clients read as a “Who’s Who” of illustration and design projects: The History Channel, Pfizer, Scholastic, Texaco and Shell Racing Teams, Highlights Children Magazine, Popular Science, Parenting Magazine, World Publications, Boating Life, Sport Diver, University of Georgia, Mario Andretti. Cameron has won nine (9) ADDY Awards in four states and various illustration competitions.

Digital Artistry at Work

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Come join Orlando's longest-running art and tech happy hour for our first gathering of the new year! Lots of exciting things are happening in Central Florida, and people who are well-connected and passionate about the future can't afford to miss out on these tribal gatherings.

Whether you're a poet, an actor, a photographer, a producer, a marketer, a programmer, an entrepreneur or a combination of them all, you'll find some great conversation and new friends by attending, and coming back every month on the third Monday.

We also have a chapter in Melbourne that has been meeting for over a year now with great success. If you'd like to see events like this in your town, feel free to start one!

Crooked Bayou has some of the best food in downtown Orlando, and drink specials for people who show up in the first hour. Monday is also when they run a special on their wings - check them out. Of course, the traditional "hot tots" and fried pickles are always a favorite.

P.S. Please bring a camera and snap some photos! You'll want to show your friends what it was like.

Download Anna McCambridge and A Confluence
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Length: 15:42

Local artist and curator Anna McCambridge joined us at the Maitland Art Center to discuss her most recent show, a joint show by 4 local artists, titled "A Confluence". Anna is the curator of the Visual Fringe, and helps to organize First Thursdays at the Orlando Museum of Art, as well as curating and supporting art all over Central Florida.

Download Anna McCambridge

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The November/December Likemind is done the first week of the month, to avoid conflicts with holiday travel.

More than 3 years ago, I heard about these two marketing guys / geeks from New York who had started an event they held on Friday mornings for coffee and conversation. The first few were just the two of them, but as they invited people and the word got out, it grew until it started getting on the radar all over the world. Now Likemind happens in scores of cities on every continent, and Orlando has been on that list almost since the beginning.

Likemind is before work (8AM), it happens downtown, and everyone is welcome. Bring a few friends, get some coffee, and tell us what's on your mind.

BACK TO THE BASICS - Photoshop and InDesign - featuring CS3 and CS4 with Ann Bennett, Instructor from Winter Park Tech.

Detailed information, location and directions can be found at our site. Free Food, Free Training, Job Networking, and Raffle Door Prize: InDesign CS4
Bring your Laptop, Free WiFi
Must be registered to win.

The Adobe Creative Suite Applications work on both Apple and Windows platforms. Therefore, our user group is non-specific for platform, open to any and all interested; we address very current and topical information. Adobe is a supporter of the IDUG.

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The fifth incarnation of The Daily City's monthly creative meetup, MOOM will be Friday, November 20, 2009 from 8am-9am at Urban Think! Deli (625 East Central Boulevard, Orlando). They've generously offered to open up early just for us. (Facebook Event Page)

FYI: Likemind is on hold until December 4th - Piers and Noah plan it like this every year.

Once again, Jeff Wirth will be acting as Guest Host. He is the creator of the Interactive Performance Lab and is very well known in the creative and improv communities in and outside Orlando.

What is MOOM? MOOM is short for "Meeting of the Orlando Minds." TheDailyCity.com MOOM will be a place for Orlando creative movers and shakers to connect (and re-connect) with each other, to discuss details of current projects and upcoming plans, and to to share resources and build interdisciplinary collaborations that create a more robust creative community in Orlando.

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It's not a user group, it's not an unconference, it's not a geek dinner, it's not a meetup or a networking event. Yet, people who enjoy these types of events will find a home at our table.

The best way I can tie all these folks together is with the string of Innovation - that magic pixie dust that inspires us when we see it in others, rewards us when we achieve it ourselves, and pat our peers on the back when they can do it without bragging.

Indeed, whether they be engineers, entrepreneurs, artists, actors, writers, or anyone else, the spark of invention brings us all to the marketplace, and has kept us coming back for over 2 years.

Download Think and Drink Part B
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Length: 57:18

John Rife, Darren McDaniel, Julie Norris, Chris Blanc, Lance Turner, Gwendolyn Anello, and Ryan Price gathered with an audience of Central Florida's community organizers, marketers, independent publishers and entrepreneurs to discuss the ways they communicate with their respective groups, clients, users and the media.

Speakers for the New Media Think and Drink: Focus on Community

Gwendolyn Anello is a co-owner of Anello Consulting out of Merritt Island. She consults several organizations in the areas of communications, market development, community and public affairs, and fundraising.

Chris Blanc is the Marketing Director for the Enzian Theatre and the Florida Film Festival. As if that wasn't enough, he's involved in several other local communities, and had a hand in creating the Dandelion Cafe.

Darren McDaniel is the creator of a feature film (The Essence of Irwin), the founder of a local internet startup (Petentials), former programming director at the Downtown Media Arts Center, and has done PhD-level research Sociology at Vanderbilt.

Julie Norris is the owner of Dandelion CommuniTEA Cafe and the host of Front Porch Radio on WPRK 91.5FM every Wednesday. She's also a new mommy! Congrats!

John Rife was a media missionary in S. Pacific / Asia, a founding member of Interactive Expeditions, is an independent documentary filmmaker, a video blogger and is currently pursuing an MFA in Digital Media at UCF.

Lance Turner is the founder of the Ourlando movement and the owner of AEonBlu in Winter Park. You'll see Lance at tons of local events snapping pictures or signing up small businesses to bring the local color.

Ryan Price is the creator of the Florida Creatives Happy Hour and a partner in a web, media and training company called DrupalEasy. He produces several podcasts and blogs when he's not busy organizing events and community functions, or posting to local websites.

Download Think and Drink Part B