Florida Creatives – Creating a Community of Innovation

The Employ Florida Digital Media Banner Center at SCC had their first-annual Digital Media Workforce Summit in November 2008. Here is some video from the event, captured on my point-and-shoot camera.

Peter of rad-info.net at BarCamp Tampa Bay

A birds-of-a-feather meetup for hacking, MAKErs, TED talks, and having fun with electronics at BarCampTampaBay with Matt:

The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk

• Tampa Bay Technology Forum

Links

• Tampa on the Coworking Wiki
• Tampa Jelly Google Group
• Jelly in Tampa Bay
• For more info contact Ken Evans @startupmonkey on twitter

Meetups

• Tampa Bloggers - @tampabloggers on twitter
• Internet Entrepreneurs - for folks who make $1 on the internet
• Tampa Bay Podcasting - Cafe NOLA, check site for details

Technology

• 2600 Meetup - 1st Fridays, University Mall in the back of the food court on the 2nd floor.

Location

BarCamp Tampa 2008 conference will be the first in the Bay area for this unusual technology and new media conference.

Tampa, FL – August 8, 2008 – BarCamp Tampa 2008: the interactive BarCamp conference (http://barcamptampabay.com/) will take place October 11-12, 2008 at the University of South Florida College of Business in Tampa. This is the first year for a BarCamp event in Tampa and will bring together thought leaders from technology and New Media to explore exciting new developments in their fields.

Topics may include, but are not limited to: open source software, startups, UI design, entrepreneurship, iphone applications, AJAX, hardware hacking, Ruby, Java, .net, PHP robotics, mobile computing, bioinformatics, RSS, Social Software, video, podcasting, music, blogs, programming languages, Virtual Reality, mashups and the future of technology.

Saturday’s events will start at 8:30 a.m. and end at 5:30 p.m. and will focus on technology. Saturday evening there will be a party for conference attendees to share and get to know each other a little better. Food and music will be provided. Sunday will start at 10:00 a.m. and end at 5:30 p.m. and will focus on New Media.

Unlike traditional meetings, a BarCamp, is what is known as an unconference where people interested in a wide range of technologies come together to participate, teach and learn. The format does not have scheduled speakers. Instead, the morning of the BarCamp, everyone proposes the sessions they would like to have covered. Those sessions are put on a schedule and groups form and start an intense session of learning. Everyone who attends a BarCamp is expected to teach and to participate. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.

People who attend should be prepared to share with barcampers, and when they leave be prepared to share it with the world.

Location

Deep Carnivale - A Celebration of Words

The Artists and Writers Group, Inc., has scheduled the second annual Deep Carnivale literature festival for September 27 2008, in Ybor City on the campus of Hillsborough Community College, at the Cuban Club, and along 14th Street between 9th Avenue and Palm Avenue and is free and open to the public of all ages.

Tampa Bay Area, St. Petersburg, Sarasota, Ft. Meyers (for now)

• Tampa Bay Tech Calendar
• Tampa Bay & Company, The TB Convention & Visitors Bureau, and Film Commission
• Tampa on Wikipedia
• Tampa on Mahalo

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.

Download Show 11
flcreatives_11_steveweaver.mp3
Length: 24:10

Vendors

• Total Media CD & DVD Duplication / Replication Services, Equipment and Supplies 727-723-3090

Local

• Sticks of Fire is edited by a team of bloggers, and covers a variety of subjects
• Lilnilhil writes about politics, both from a local and world perspective.

Film

• Tampa Film Fan with Lisa Ciurro

Tech

• Sarah in Tampa A blog about web apps, web 2.0, social media, and everything else that making the internet worthwhile
• Mark Jaquith blogger, photographer, wordpress guy
• [http://startupmonkey.com Startup M

Download Show 06
flcreatives_06_sticks.mp3
Length: 21:07

Download Show 05
flcreatives_05_tampa.mp3
Length: 16:54

Download Show 04
flcreatives_04_tampa.mp3
Length: 8:04

Sticks of Fire is a Tampa-based local blog I subscribe to, and they are co-hosting a blogger dinner in Tampa next Tuesday. Here's the announcement:

From Sticks of Fire:

Who: Bloggers and Podcasters, fans of them or even those who want to become one…

When: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 — 6:00pm - 8:00pm