Florida Creatives – Creating a Community of Innovation

Watch Florida Creatives History at Pecha Kucha Night Jax

BlogOrlando is happening this week, and that was really the event that kicked Florida Creatives out of the minds of the collective and into reality. Don't believe me? Watch this video. Yours truly has the full explanation of how it all went down.

Recorded at the first Pecha Kucha Night in Jacksonville.

Download Show 18
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Length: 1:34:26

Eric Marden, AKA Xentek or Dr. XNLB, shares with us some stories from his past about starting record labels, trying to form creative collectives, and the creative climate in Orlando.

Shameless Links:

• Xentek
• Dr. XNLB
• Polyvibe Records
• Egyptian Zombie Robot Party Machine
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

Download Show 17
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Length: 52:20

The Director of the Essence of Irwin and former Programming Director for the Downtown Media Arts Center joins Ryan Price for a discussion about his history and the journey of creating his film.

Darren is also working on a local startup company called Petentials: The Internet for Pets.

Florida Creatives on iTunes

Download Show 16
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Length: 14:00

Tisse, Katrina Priore, Dana Delapi and Becky Lane talk to Ryan Price during BarCamp Orlando 2008.

Florida Creatives on iTunes

Download Show 15
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Length: 9:19

Sunir Shah and Alex DeCarvalho talk to Ryan Price at BarCampOrlando Dev Day about FreshBooks and ScrapBlog, where each of them are the "Community Guy". We also talk about BarCamp and the aesthetic there vs. a regular conference.

Shameless Links:

• FreshBooks
• ScrapBlog
• BarCampOrlando
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

Download Show 14
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Length: 29:04

marc. with a c. (aka Marc Sirdoreus) is someone I've been a friend of for the last 2+ years, and a fan of from the first moment I saw him play on the same day. I have had the honor of performing on stage with his band, but someone doesn't really help Marc create something, as much as support his performance. The exception would be Chris Zabriskie, Marc's creative other half (not appearing in this podcast). Listen in as I pay verbal homage to a good friend and a great contributor to Orlando's independent music and 'zine scene.

The following songs appear in this podcast:

• Classic Country Wasn't Multitracked in '61 (Normal Bias)
• Born Vintage (If Conditions Persist, I Will Resist)
• Bite Sized Help (This World is Scary as Fuck)

Shameless Links:

• marc. with a c. (official)
• marc. with a c. (myspace)
• marc. with a c. (thesixtyone)
• marc. with a c. (last.fm)
• Retro Low Fi
• Pop Means Cuddle
• The Zanzibar Lounge
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

Download Show 13
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Length: 1:12:14

monochrom is an Austrian art-theory group with an international resume that makes me very jealous. I got the chance to sit down with Johannes Grenzfurthner and Evelyn Fürlinger over some Thai food and talk about some of his many achievements, as well as just talk with an intelligent and well-humored guy.

There are lots more show-notes necessary for this episode, but I don't have the time to sit and list all of the references we make. If someone is motivated and wants to help listing relevant websites, etc. I would appreciate it very much.

Catch some videos and other collected works of monochrom on boing boing.

Download Show 12
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Length: 15:58

January 5th, 2008 saw the first New Media Think and Drink at Redlight Redlight in Winter Park. Host Ryan Price talks to Orlando radio personality and part-time podcasting teacher Steve Smith about the podcasting and New Media program at Orlando Tech at the Orlando Centroplex.

Shameless Links:

• Orlando Tech Podcasting Classes
• Orlando Podcaster Meetup
• Now Live Social Podcasting
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

Download Show 11
flcreatives_11_steveweaver.mp3
Length: 24:10

January 5th, 2008 saw the first New Media Think and Drink at Redlight Redlight in Winter Park. Host Ryan Price talks to Tampa DJ and podcast host Steve Weaver about his Sonic Gumbo podcast and some podcasts and services Steve likes.

Shameless Links:

• Sonic Gumbo Podcast
• Podsafe Music Resources
• FLCreatives Wiki
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

BlogOrlando artwork by Jeremy Harrington

Download Show 10
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Length: 18:19

The 2nd Annual BlogOrlando unconference was a smashing success, and lots of Florida Creatives members participated or acted as discussion leaders. Ryan Price gets impressions from Becky Lane and Darren McDaniel about what they took away from the conference.

Florida Creatives would like to send huge thanks to Josh Hallet and all the event organizers and contributors for putting on BlogOrlando.

Becky works with educational theatre for elementary age kids, and Darren works on a social networking site, so the crossover between their jobs actually turned out some interesting points during the discussion. One example: there are kids' social networks and moms' social networks, but none really for moms (or dads) of kids who are using social networks.

Download Show 09
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Length: 31:38

The First Annual Ella Music Festival is happening on October 5th and 6th in the Rogers building in downtown Orlando. The festival celebrates female artists of all kinds, but certainly centers around a musical schedule. Robert Johnson and Jonathan Andrews of Gamble Records are organizing the festival, and Ryan Price talks to them about how they got into doing a festival and what their plans are.

Download Show 08
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Length: 25:51

The Broken Speech Poetry Slam happens every Thursday night at Stardust Video & Coffee in Winter Park. The slam is now 6 years old, and is led by J. Bradley and hosted by Jelian Morales. The show gets started around 9 or 9:30, and promises something different every week.

Download Show 07
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Length: 22:00

Holly Riggs is a spoken word artist, actor, producer, crafter and someone we want to pay attention to. Since this interview was recorded, she has left Orlando for Boston, and I interviewed her at her farewell party at Dandelion CommuniTEA. She talks about her company Starbananas and her label Nonsense Records.

Download Show 06
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Length: 21:07

From the Tampa Blogger Meetup on February 27th at Hawk's Neighborhood Grill in South Tampa, Ryan Price interviews Jim Johnson, Tommy "Beer" Duncan, Tim Burke, Lisa Ciurro, Matt Ragis and Joel Ramos from the Sticks of Fire blog.

Sticks of Fire is a blog about Tampa and the Bay Area by Tampa residents. I had the pleasure of getting to talk to most of the Sticks team about what they do on and off the web, and also about Florida Creatives. This is a dynamic group that should be paid attention to, and I hope to be able to come back to everyone I met at the Tampa Blogger Dinner and find out what they're doing soon.

Download Show 05
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Length: 16:54

From the Tampa Blogger Meetup on February 27th at Hawk's Neighborhood Grill in South Tampa, Ryan Price interviews Lisa Ciurro from Tampa Film Fan and Tampa Book Buzz, Derrick Daye from Branding Strategy Insider and Ryan from Groovr.com.

Lisa tells us about what she does, Derrick enlightens us with some branding knowledge, then Groovr Ryan tells us about moblogging. Florida Creatives Ryan then finishes off by bringing it all together.

Download Show 04
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Length: 8:04

From the Tampa Blogger Meetup on February 27th at Hawk's Neighborhood Grill in South Tampa, Ryan Price interviews Kimberly Finn of the Tampa Downtown Partnership and Creative Tampa Bay and Eric Sturm of TampaOptions.com.

The conversation covers blogging, creative groups and the increasing trend to organizing those and other groups online. We have two more podcasts from the Blogger Dinner on the way, so stay dialed in for more blogger profiles and thoughts.

Photo by Josh Hallet.

Download Show 03
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Length: 22:00

John Rife joins Ryan Price to discuss the birth of Florida Creatives and the Creative Summit in Ryan's kitchen, as well as talk about videoblogging and his past. John is very community minded, so we also get a healthy dose of where he sees Central Florida heading in the coming years.

Download Show 02
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Length: 27:04

Emurse.com is a website developed by two Floridians and UCF Grads with the idea of simplifying your job search. I had the privilege of meeting Gavin Hall and Alex Rudloff at this year's BlogOrlando conference.

During this show we discuss not only Emurse (an anagram for "resume") but what brought these serial entrepreneurs to start the site and what keeps them in Orlando when I'm sure they could write their own ticket in any major city.

Alex and Gavin are now active attendees of our Happy Hour, as evidenced here.

Shameless Links:

• Emurse.com
• Alex's Blog
• Gavin's Blog
• Orlando Coworking
• New Netscape
• Does Engadget really need a link?
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

I wish these guys the best of luck in their quest to make your job search easier. I use the product and I have to say it works beautifully.

Update: right after this interview was posted, the boys rolled out a new feature on the Emurse blog that lets you search jobs relevant to you. They didn't include it on the podcast because it wasn't ready yet, but it is there now and very cool. Now you can post your resume and search for jobs inside Emurse. The job search has officially gotten easier.

Download Show 01
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Length: 27:01

Mark Baratelli is a local podcaster, marketer, thespian, producer and an excellent first guest for our show. We begin by discussing his role as Social Media Coordinator for the 2007 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival, then move on to his current efforts.

Mark produces several podcasts:

• The Orlando Arts Podcast
• Lady Raptastic
• How Do You Feel?
• Vivian Beaumont and Vivian Beaumont

Another great way to get in touch with Mark is through his MySpace page. Enjoy our first podcast, recorded at Junior's Diner in Winter Park.
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