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FL Creatives is the Best of Orlando!
Exciting news: I was informed that Florida Creatives and BarCamp Orlando were named "Best way to staff your social networking startup" by the Orlando Weekly as part of their annual Best of Orlando issue.
BlogOrlando 2008
Location(s)
what: an unconference
when: September 25-27, 2008
where: Orlando, Florida
cost: free
tracks:
Journalism
Technology/Tools
Local/Community
New Media/Creative
Marketing/PR
The dates for the 2008 edition of BlogOrlando have been set, Sept 25-27th. Of course the big change is the main event is moving to a Saturday.
Orlando Theatre Kids want Coworking Too
Over on the Orlando Sentinel Theatre blog, there has been a recent discussion about how to get Orlando's Theatre (and theater) community together. They decided on having a pot-luck dinner in a local theatre space, namely Mad Cow. The date is April 6th at 7PM, the same day as BarCamp Media Day, one hour after our event wraps up, right across the street from our event.
Florida Creatives on Mahalo
Heard it on a Blog: January 2008
Local blog shenomenon Sarah in Tampa is now creating content for ReadWriteWeb and Microsoft's Channel 10. Heard it on a blog from Tampa called Sticks of Fire, perhaps the best placeblog in Florida.
Thanks, NFI! Florida Creatives' 12th Happy Hour Tonight
The NFI Studios blog had a very nice post about our little group today. I want to thank Lynda Raphael (any relation to Sterling?) for writing such a positive post. She even quoted Mr. Richard Florida (who is not the namesake for our group, but) whose writings are often compared with our grassroots community-building efforts here in Orlando and around the state.
Here's some of what Lynda wrote:
More Blog Orlando Publicity
I just noticed on a PeachPit Press blog that Blog Orlando was mentioned. Normally I don't read their blogs, but I happened to come
across a link in their newsletter that I get since they sponsor my user group. Among the big names mentioned in the post is one of our own crew, Alex Rudloff. Here's a quote:
BarCamp in Orlando Sentinel
Someone sent me an email this morning saying that OrlandoSentinel.com was running a story on the upcoming BarCamp on Sept 23rd at Taste. The article is "A gathering of the geeks", and it sports a picture of a few people's hands and Jason Siefer's head (and one unidentified programmer, but I think he's an ORUG guy too).
Here's the most quotable part of the article by Wes Smith:
Orlando coworking mentioned in WIRED
Some time ago, I was cruising the Coworking wiki and I saw some info about Jelly, which is essentially "living room coworking". I remember making an edit to the wiki at the time and adding Orlando and a link here or an email to invite people over for Jelly at my place, but I can't even find that entry now.
Nonetheless, as Anna Jane Grossman was writing this article about NYC Jelly for wired.com, she must have stumbled across a message that had my post. Here's a little of the article:




