BlogOrlando gets better each year, I’m very glad I went. I of course enjoyed reconnecting with friends who flew in from across the country, seeing the Orlando tech community again, and meeting new people.

One of the highlights was getting firsthand case studies from the teams that manage(d) social media at major corporations: Jeff Rubenstein and Josh Hallett presented the Sony Playstation strategy; Paula Berg spoke about successes and learnings at SouthWest Airlines; and Jake McKee recapped his experiences at Lego.

The schedule was full of good topics, making it hard to choose which track to follow:

Leah Jones of Edelman Digital presented advanced search techniques, including the search engines and Boolean searches she makes. Here’s her presentation on Slideshare: “Going beyond Google“.
Nik Wilets, aka @tiburon, explained the difference between a photographer and a photojournalist, and had great examples of his own and other’s work. He was later followed by Etan Horowitz from the Orlando Sentinel, who spoke about the use of Twitter in Journalism.

Phil Gomes, also of Edelman, shared his experiences, tips, and techniques on giving internal education on social media within the large PR firm.
Spike Jones and Geno Church gave excellent presentations on “WOM and social media” and “Movements, activism, and social media“, respectively. Most interestingly, Geno spoke about creating and building the Fiskateers community, for one of the oldest companies in the world, Finnish scissor maker Fiskars. Community is not about the scissors, it’s about the higher purpose.

I’ve been going up to Orlando tech events, and each time it’s reassuring to see the tech community grow and organize itself. They’ve made great progress in the last few months since BarCampOrlando, which was the catalyst for many of the groups and initiatives. Pictured are Alex Rudloff, Ryan Price, and Gregg Pollack, who summarized the history and the many things going on. Here’s a video of their 30-minute preso.

I also saw David Alston from Radian6 speak about brand monitoring (disclaimer: I co-founded StartPR), but unfortunately missed David Parmet’s session on education and Jake’s session on identity.

Overall, it was great to meet up with such brilliant and engaged people, and best of all, it happened in Florida

Update: Some of the sessions are archived here on ustream.

Continuing what has been a stellar year in Miami in terms of online conferences, the The Word of Mouth Marketing University came to town. To welcome some our friends from out of town who came to speak at the event, including Rohit Bhargava, Joseph Jaffe, JC Hutchins and Jason Anello, we organized a blogger dinner last night:

Brian Breslin of infinimedia

Joseph Jaffe of Crayon

Jay Berkowitz of Ten Goden Rules

By the way, Josh Hallett snapped some great photos at WOMMU, some of which appear on WOMMU’s good live blog. Have a look!

• 23:16 So now we’re at the housewarming of Miami Brik-O-Lodge, Miami’s 1st coworking community! Lodge-warming, that is #
• 23:22 Overheard “Spokeo should be called spooky-o” LOL! #
• 12:51 Speaking on a “Social Media / Web 2.0″ panel today at Microsoft sponsored Business & Tech conference at FIU tinyurl.com/2xau8t #
• 13:17 Miami’s first coworking space, looks nice tinyurl.com/338hu2 via @alexdesigns #
• 16:24 On the panel right now, it’s being moderated by @zameer #
• 17:19 Social Media panel went great, got a few new Twitter converts Thanks, @zameer , for organizing and moderating this session. #
• 17:22 Now watching Demian Bellumio of Cyloop.com latin socnet for music, formerly elhood.com; 50 FTE; capital raised $13M #
• 20:17 Who knew the folks at FIU were so nice? And awesome to see Miami-based Cyloop enjoy such success hoodiny.com #

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This turned out to be one of the more interesting sessions of the conference. Here’s a loose transcription of the bootstrapping your startup panel at SXSW. The points covered in this session are the nuts and bolts of the business, as important as the balance sheet.

Kevin Koym   Founder/CEO,   Enterprise Teaming LLC

Bruce Krysiak   Principal,   Leonid Consulting

Allen Beuershausen

Edward Cruz   Founder,   Melior Technologies

Nancy Schill   Founder,   Executive Intelligent Coaching

"Are you building a business, a non-profit, or artistic endeavor? Through building their businesses together, entrepreneurs can get to success faster. We will share examples of how entrepreneurs can use less financial capital and more social capital to make their businesses successful, drawing upon our experiences with BootstrapAustin.org, and other "enterprise tribes". Our panel’s diverse backgrounds will show how this way of building businesses is having an impact on artist, non-profits, and startup businesses."

 

Panel discussion

The basic phases are pre-ideation, ideation, Valley of Death and growth. The "inner path" are the changes you need to make at the relevant times as you grow.

In the pre-ideation phase, start to put into language what you like, what you don’t like, etc., in the spirit of "know thyself". Where will you spend your mental time to create something you will love.

In the ideation phase, you start to commit to the business. What you develop in the ideation phase is your commitment to your idea and its place in the world. The other aspects here are imagination and creativity.

When you’re in the "Valley of Death", your primary objective is to stay alive. Do whatever it takes, get consulting contracts, so you can sustain your project. During this time, you will learn alot about yourself, and this will give a good sense of your and your project’s identity. Ask yourself three questions:

- Are you trying to build a sustainable organization?
- Is your team willing to push the limits during this period?
- Are you ready to use everything in your disposal in order to make it?

Unless you’re Superman, you will face and live with fear. You must put the fear aside, because it paralizes you and keeps you from doing the things you need to do. It reduces your openness and flexibility. You must be open to everything that comes your way that will help you build a sustainable company.

"Growth is a biological unfolding of events involving changing an organism from simple to more complex." Growth is that place where you become more dangerous, because you are stretching in new directions. The most important thing right now is not to build your bank account, but to reinvest your profits. Teach and reinforce your purpose, your vision, your values and your strategies. So just feeding your business more capital doesn’t work. You have to do it based on your purpose, vision, values and strategies. No doing so can throw you back in the Valley of Death.

Dring growth, be careful of hubris and don’t get too full of yourself. Hubris reduces your openness and flexibility, because you think you know everything (ie., I did this all myself). Cultivate humility and gratitude.

Question and answer

How do you manage the transition from your day job to your project? To cross the threshold, you need to jump. There’s a point you’ll feel inside where you know you need to take a leap of faith. You will feel that push. It’s like going into labor. And when you make that leap, you will find resources, because you are looking for opportunities and because you’re hungry.

When do you stop bootstrapping and look for funding? You can take funding and still continue bootstrapping. It’s not mutually exclusive and it is part of the process. After growth, you re-boostrap. Even Apple does it. When you stop innovating, you stop being viable.

When do you get business and medical insurance? Do it when you can afford it. Here too there is a threshold that you’ll have to cross. You have to weigh the risks when you can afford it.

How do you know which opportunities to pursue while you work on your project? For as long as you possibly can, keep focussing on your core and growing that core. Keep feeding this core until it sprouts something you can’t avoid. During the ideation stage, don’t define the project too strictly. Keep considering new options. But when you’re in the Valley of Death or growth stages, then you have to focus and make your project work.

How many months should you have in the bank while you’re growing? A goal of four and a half months is good, but hard to achieve. The closer you get to four and a half months, the more your business will suffer. So a rule of thumb is to take your employee expense and double it.

When is it appropriate to start looking for talent? What are the best ways … should you use a recruiter? The recruiting process works best when you align values. Get someone that is curious, hard working and shares your values. These are more important than qualifications. Make it an objective to consistently interview people. For example, interview six people per week. You have to keep feeding that pipeline so you get choice selections for your organization.

How to manage work life balance? Should I get a partner or an employee? Look into getting an intern from local schools, they can be invaluable. Look for people with complementary energy, so they bring new talents to your organization. Regarding time management, scrap your todo lists and put what’s necessary into your calendar. This way you have a central place and a strict daily reminder of what needs to happen by the end of the day.

Here’s a transcription on community building by a panel of top social media consultants and bloggers. Since it’s transcribed, please excuse the grammar and run on sentences.

Chris Heuer, Partner, The Conversation Group

Tara Hunt, Co-Founder, Citizen Agency

Jeremiah Owyang, Forrester

Deborah Schultz, Founder/Chief Catalyst, deborahschultz.com

David Parmet   Owner, Marketing Begins At Home LLC

Hugh MacLeod   Grand Pooh-Bah, gapingvoid.com

"’Conversation’ & ‘community’, yes, yes. Of course. Given. But how, exactly? Do you want people to find out about and play with your awesome Web stuff without being skeevy about it? Serious about including your users in the long-term creation and evolution of your products? Together, we’ll divine the best ways to unmarket and create self-replicating awesomeness."

How can you uses social media to build communities around your projects?

Deb Schultz: None of this is about tools or technology, it’s about understanding your customers and bringing them into the fold.

Chris Heuer: What makes a community are the interpersonal connections within it. Social media fundamentally changes the way we interact with each other. It takes a shift to think about participation in a different way. We need to change people’s mindset from selling to people, to helping people buy. You need to have a genuine spirit of wanting to do good, or people will notice the "fakeness".

Jeremiah Owyang: Conducts research and most recently interviewed 17 companies on best practices for community building and management.

Tara Hunt: "Marketing is the price you pay for creating mediocre products." Tara found that the more she gave away, the more business she got. The more time she donates to the community, the more opportunities open up to her. Read Cory Doctorow’s "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom." The book talks about if you do good things for the world, you get more "woofys" (ie., Karma).

Hugh MacLeod

Was unemployed 5 years ago and started drawing cartoons on the back of business cards and posted them to his website. This led to a gig with a small South African winery, Stormhoek, which was selling 50,000 cases per year at the time. Hugh then started talking about Stormhoek and sending free bottles to bloggers, without asking them to blog about it. Hugh then noticed geek dinners happening and offered to send a case of wine to these events. The only condition was to ask people to post pictures to Flickr. The result is that in a year and a half, Stormhoek went from 50k cases per year to 250k cases per year! Hugh and Jason [Korman, of Stormhoek] noticed that the wine was a social object. In fact, it was becoming a social marker, because it took territory and demarcated the conversation.

Discussion

If you are at a small startup and have some control over your marketing budget, get out of the ivory tower. Get a community manager or evangelist and go meet your customers. Go to conferences and start "weaving". Don’t put names on things, like "viral marketing".

Jeremiah mentions that he makes a lot of people at his own company nervous, because he gives out a lot of his knowledge for free.

However, by sharing your knowledge, people will understand that you have knowledge and this becomes your calling card.

Traditional marketing is about throwing the net out wide and hope you catch as many people as possible. What Hugh realized is that you can provide good service to small groups and the word will spread. "Blue Ocean Strategies" is a good book about these principles.

Question and Answer

How to find brand advocates? It’s pretty easy to find them by searching. You can also use paid services that will mine the net and find influencers.

What is Kula and what is the latest one? Kula are shells that people trade in South Sea islands. Islanders would paddle great distances to gift Kula to others. It’s not about the shell, it’s that people are wearing them and it creates a bond, an obligation, a conversation, an interaction. It’s all about people.

It’s ok to give away the little things, but what about giving away big stuff? For example, Audi is giving away dry cleaning, spa treatments and so on. Find related things that people you interact with will value. Also, break things down into smaller segments and go local. Start from the bottom up. Russel Davies said big brands don’t have big ideas, they have lots of small ideas. Starbuck’s is about the small things. Apple stores also. When you add lots and lots of little things done well, these add up. As a community manager for Hitachi, that sells products worth millions of dollars, Jeremiah set up a wiki that became a valued space for customers and represented a huge cultural shift for the company.

How to market a film? Start a blog and get people from the community to start telling their stories. The brands with the best storytellers win. Empower people and help them tell their stories.

What’s the rebuttal to the 1.0 Marketing pushback? There’s no such thing as viral marketing. Why not go right to the customers themselves, rather than going for yet another ad buy. Sometimes you shouldn’t give your products away, but it’s those things around it, the social gestures you make. For example, the Honda dealer has wifi, has bagels, has playground for kids … so some independent consultants go there to work! It’s not just about giving away stuff, it’s about creating relationships with the people you’re giving stuff to.

What’s the takeaway, the soundbite? Social objects are the future of marketing. Build social capital and find your higher purpose. Passion for people, put passion into product. Technology changes, human behavior doesn’t, don’t get lost in the shiny bling, don’t get lost in the ivory tower, nothing replaces listening. People are people.

What about nonprofits, what is free is the message … is pitching the message annoying or wrong or unethical? What you’re giving is a connection to a higher purpose, a sense of belonging. Cultivate this feeling, rather than sending a message to people. Find how to connect with people. When do you connect with people? Is it just on your own terms. Do you sell tupperware when you invite people to dinner? That’s a turn off. If you only talk to them when you need them, you will lose them. It’s more about the quality of the connections, one person at a time.

What if these tactics don’t work? How long does it take? Traditional execs want immediate results. They care about levers, not people. A lot of it has to do with people not getting it. It’s not campaigns, it’s programs. Get qualitative results, get the videos of the kids in the playgrounds and tell their stories.

Is this a fad or does it need to be done? Jeremiah believes there is a purpose to marketing. But marketing has become associated with sales, rather than associating the product with the value people get from them. For Deborah, it is a personal mission, not a fad. She considers herself a customer advocate, not a marketer. She loves bringing tools to people and enabling people to do cool stuff with it. It’s significant that everybody has a voice today. It boils down to, what’s your intention? People will notice fakeness.

Wrap-up: A story without love is not worth telling.

BarCampMiami came and left us some great memories. David Parmet and Michael Tangeman wrote up summaries; here are my Flickr photos tagged BarCampMiami08 and unbeknownst to me, Michael recorded a video of the introduction to BarCamp:

Thanks in no small part to the Future of Web Apps conference and to the RefreshMiami group, close to 300 people participated in BarCampMiami. Over 35 presentations were given, including a sneak preview of Kevin Marks’ Open Social presentation the next day at FOWA.

We have Nick Dominguez, Michael Montgomery, Chris Saylor, Brian Breslin and dearYvette to thank for helping organize our event. The folks at the Adrienne Arsht Center of the Performing Arts were most helpful by allowing us to stay past closing hours and by lending us extra rooms. A special shout out goes to Mel Kirk and Ryan Carson at Carsonified, who graciously invited BarCampMiami in their venue for FOWA.

Most of all, we have all the participants to thank, who made this such a rich experience. The participants run BarCamp and they made this one great.

• 09:23 Heh … first time I’ve had to enter 3 captchas (without errors) to post a comment on a blog! #
• 13:11 @sink I interpret Creative Commons non-commercial solely as “No re-selling my content”; in both cases there must be explicit attribution #
• 15:24 @rrodgers Thanks for the add. I hope your presentations this week at the education conference went well. #
• 15:27 @avorio Instapaper’s good when u don’t want 2 bkmark 2 delicious + it’s MUCH quicker; also if u’ve left comment on a blog + want 2 check l8r #
• 15:32 I’m fixing email for myself by forwarding them to Omnifocus where they become todo items; I can then also schedule them to iCal w/ reminders #
• 15:38 Uh oh … @BarCampMiami now has 200 participants and still three weeks to go! … I’ll add 50 places but it’s getting tight … #
• 15:43 My mistake, 150 have signed up but I added 100 more places anyway and I think that’s a hard upper limit. Follow @BarCampMiami for more deets #
• 16:03 My Leopard’s not liking this Safari. Growl. #
• 16:12 @LaniAR Twitter will probably go down during SXSWi, like it did during MacWorld. A plan B is called for … Dodgeball perhaps? #
• 16:14 @andrej_k please send me an email to alex@barcampmiami.org regarding sponsorship; we’re sending the artwork tonight, so time is now short #
• 16:15 @andrej_k Yes, BarCampMiami overlaps with FOWA, just like Web2Open overlapped with Web2Expo; BarCamp is free, FOWA is not. #
• 16:17 @andrej_k Not much we can do bout @BarCampMiami overlap w/ FOWA; we can hold another BarCamp in a few months, however. No out-of-towners tho #
• 16:19 @extraface I’m just getting the hang of using Omnifocus + iCal + Anxiety + GMail + GCal + Spanning Sync all together…so far so good though #
• 16:22 @LaniAR The only Twitter “plan B” I know are Dodgeball and perhaps Jaiku. Thing is, 2007 SXSWi launched Twitter + 2008 SXSWi crashes Twitter #
• 16:23 @andrej_k @montgomery That’s a tall order! BarCampMiami’s free and only as good as what everyone puts into it; FOWA is paid and “guaranteed” #
• 16:41 @boyington Salut ! Nice to hear from you #
• 16:52 @montgomery I’m just saying, BarCampMiami will be as good as what everyone puts into it. We are trying our best and so far it looks awesome. #
• 17:01 Part of why email is broken is that it takes you out of the “flow” and that’s why I use five.sentenc.es/ for 98% of my email replies. #
• 18:06 @zsazsa the only way you might tell is by reading the tweets carefully or by asking your followers; which celebrity friended you? #
• 19:09 @leahjones this ecommerce site is a hoot! lol www.arngren.net/ #
• 19:32 @zsazsa @jmspool my take is @chucknorris and @andersoncooper are not real … but the humor’s good #
• 19:36 @nicolau is helping out with @BarCampMiami in a big way, working out all the logos/artwork of our 15 sponsors #
• 22:01 @nicolau made awesome t-shirt comps for @BarCampMiami !!! #

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• 03:46 AWESOME Scrabulous music video! www.tastesliketv.com/content/view/39/41/ #
• 08:52 @ewanmcintosh @hamishbetts I agree with Ewan: Reboot’s a great conference #
• 10:56 @charles_nouyrit thanks for your updates about @LIFT08, I wish I were there! #
• 14:16 And now we have user-generated, social pizza tinyurl.com/3×4woc via @brbreslin #
• 14:41 @charles_nouyrit thanks for your updates about LIFT08, I wish I were there! Enjoy! tinyurl.com/3ardh5 #
• 14:42 @pedrocustodio great slideshow on “Conversational Design” tinyurl.com/2s4gdc #
• 15:53 @sink grats! #
• 16:33 Instapaper is one of the most useful FireFox plugins evar … kthxbai www.instapaper.com/ #
• 16:35 Seems I’ll be speaking at the MIT Enterprise Forum in two weeks’ time tinyurl.com/yvz3mx #

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BarCampMiami will be held on February 28th from 4pm to 8pm, in conjunction with the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) Miami conference at the glorious Carnival Center of the performing arts. Since opening the registration last week, about 90 people have signed up. BarCampMiami attendees are entitled to 50% off the price of FOWA Miami and the first 100 get a free tshirt. The FOWA coupon code is available upon signing up for BarCamp.

What topics or services would you like to see presented? A few days after registration was opened, we added a question to the signup form on what types of topics people would like to see presented. Here are the answers:

1. Amazon Web Services  2. Free and Open Source for Geospatial

All kind of topics concerning web applications, mobile servcies, and maybe a little bit of semantic web…

Anything cool about web

Blogging

Community building and publishing related. Monetization on community sites,  are subscriptions models dead?

development of mobile platforms

Entrepreneurship, Web Design and/or starting and promoting a startup.

ERP SOLUTIONS.

Flash Techniques and Animation.  XML integration and a bit of Animation/Cartooning

I will be volunteering with project management.

interface design

landing page optimization  profit models

Microformats

Microformats, APIs, state of the languages (Django, Rails, etc.), subscription/payment options

monetization of web apps and metrics.

New media. New technology. Art. Music. Software.

new technologies…

optimization

Photoshop Design to CSS

rapid app development, .NET libraries, AJAX, dynamically generating .swf files

Ruby on Rails development

Ruby, productivity tools, promoting a healthy technology community in South Florida, office ergonomics, does anyone still use Java anymore?

ruby, rails

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, electronics, robotics, graphic design.

SEM, Social network marketing

Server side and client side frameworks. Internationalization.

social networking, mobile, ventures

usability, information architecture

BarCampMiami presenters. The following people indicate they would like to present:

Alex Hillman Founder/Fearless Leader IndyHall
website: http://www.indyhall.org
blog: http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com
I’d love to present about coworking, if you’ll have me!

Blake Macleod Business Development PeopleBubble
website: http://www.peoplebubble.net
I would like to give a demonstration of PeopleBubble, a web app we are developing.

Brian Breslin CEO infinimedia
website: http://www.infinimedia.com
blog: http://webpl.us
Yes. Leveraging the social graph for fun and profit.

Brian Oberkirch Founder Small Good Thing
website: http://brianoberkirch.com
Designing for Portable Social Networks

Chris Saylor Senior Web Developer TodobebÈ
website: http://todobebe.com
blog: http://justhack.com
Possibly on Globalizing Your Web Applications

Christopher Haupt CTO Collective Knowledge Works Inc
website: http://buildingwebapps.com
blog: http://blog.buildingwebapps.com
We just launched BuildingWebApps.com as a service to the Ruby on Rails focused development and design community. Behind the scenes, we are building tech to organize information for communities in niche knowledge domains. Would love to show it to folks and find out what new learners most wish they had (or could point new practitioners to to get them up to speed).

Edward Toro Developer Scrapblog
website: http://www.scrapblog.com
Maybe.  Intro to Adobe Flex? Agile development processes (Scrum)?  IdeaFestival Do-Tank meeting style?

Elliot Murphy hacker Canonical
website: http://canonical.com
blog: http://elliotmurphy.com
Distributed revision control for web developers.

Greg Pederson Director of Technology Nsightdevelpoment.com
website: http://www.nsightdevelopment.com
I can talk about using CSS positioning along with one graphic file that contains all the sites reused images to save space, download times, etc.

Gregg Pollack Code Monkey RailsEnvy
website: http://www.RailsEnvy.com
blog: http://www.RailsEnvy.com
I’d like to do a presentation on Intro to Ruby on Rails.  If there are too many people there already familiar I might switch to a more advanced topic like BDD/RSpec or ActiveRecord.
James Hoskins Software Engineer Avatar International. Inc.Undecided topic

Jason Perry Prime Mover Paint.itRed
website: http://paint.itred.org
blog: http://ambethia.com
Unsure, perhaps in the lightning round if there is one.

Joey Primiani Web Designer Freelance
website: http://www.joeyprimiani.com
blog: http://www.joeyprimiani.com
Yes, I plan to present new ways to visualize live analytics (other than Google Analytics) to get a better idea of what users like on the page. Or the latest (past two months) ajax libraries that include amazing ways for increased user interaction and experience.

John Rife CEO Interactive Expeditions
website: http://www.FindingAmerica.tv
blog: http://www.ALocalFolkus.com
Transmedia Story Creation:  Telling stories with today’s tools - but as Ryan Price said above "It’s not about the tools"

Joshua Hoskins IT Director OrlandoJobs.com
website: http://www.orlandojobs.com
I would like to, at BarCamp Orlando I presented on GoogleBase. I may do that again or something with Ruby on Rails and Integration.

Kevin Murphy Managing Director Statiksoft, LLC
website: http://statiksoft.com
blog: http://kevinnmurphy.com
Doing a talk on either django templates, or decoupling django apps.

michael galpert C20 A.viary.com
website: http://A.viary.com
blog: http://A.viary.com/blog
deskop software vs online software or something along those lines

Michael Montgomery President Montgomery Studios, Inc.
website: http://montgomerystudios.com
blog: http://michaelmontgomery.net
Yes. Possible topics include web standards or accessibility.

Michael Nunez Founder Suluta Corp
website: http://www.suluta.com
Monetizing your work online.

Nathan Rambeck Founder Rambeck Group
website: http://rambeck.com
blog: http://rambeck.com/blog
Building social networks with Drupal.

Ptah Dunbar Web Designer / Developer 
website: http://ptahdunbar.net
blog: http://ptahdunbar.com
no sure.. I could present a service if possible.

Ron Akanowicz Information Architect Softerware Consulting, PA
website: http://www.softerwareconsulting.com
I Haven’t been asked, but could…

Ryan Price Drupal Developer Petentials.com
website: http://petentials.com
blog: http://ryanpricemedia.com
Podcasting is not about Tools

Sean Murphy Web Application Architect Statiksoft, LLC
website: http://statiksoft.com
blog: http://IamSeanMurphy.com
I’d be happy to present on either Comet, or improving user experience with JS form validation.

Tantek «elik   
website: http://tantek.com/
blog: http://tantek.com/
microformats lab - a hands-on lab for folks wanting either an introduction or help with adding microformats to their sites.

Tate Stickles Attorney Grossman Law Group
website: http://www.ecomputerlaw.com
I’d be interested on presenting on a legal topic relating to the interests of other attendees.  Such as protecting intellectual property, privacy, etc.

Tyler Hunt   
website: http://tylerhunt.com/
blog: http://blog.tylerhunt.com/
Possibly something on Amazon FPS.

William Couch Multimedia Artist Orlando Sentinel
website: http://orlandosentinel.com
blog: http://williamcouch.com
Possibly, about prototyping/generating Flash projects quickly for breaking news.

And myself, Alex de Carvalho Community and Marketing Dir. Scrapblog.com
website: http://www.scrapblog.com
blog: http://www.tapio.com
Object-centered sociality

More BarCampMiami participants. Here is the remainder of the participant list. Everyone is welcome to present:

Adam Teece Lead Designer Aberrant Designs, Inc
website: http://adamteece.com
blog: http://aberrantabsurdity.com

Alex Harris Creative Director Alex Designs LLC
website: http://www.alexdesigns.com
blog: http://www.alexdesigns.com/blog/

Alison Wadsworth Research Director Micstura
website: http://www.micstura.com

Allan Branch design/ui less everything, inc
website: http://www.lesseverthing.com
blog: b.lesseverything.com

Bruno Miranda Developer Ninja Todobebe
website: http://www.bopia.com
blog: http://www.brunomiranda.com

Carlos Granier-Phelps Social Media Strategist RED66.com
website: http://red66.com/
blog: http://technosailor.com/category/espanol/

cathy colmenares Sr Director, Integrated Marketing Todobebe Inc.
website: http://todobebe.com
blog: http://mitodobebe.com

Chris Campbell Co-Founder Wufoo
website: http://wufoo.com
blog: http://particletree.com

Cristopher Carillo Owner Tequesta Enterprises
website: http://www.linkspro.com

Daniel Dye 
Daniel Kirsch 
Danny Sanchez Senior Producer Orlando Sentinel
website: http://www.orlandosentinel.com
blog: http://www.journalistopia.com

David Moore Music Teacher Broward Schools
David Parmet Owner Marketing Begins at Home, LLC
website: http://www.parmet.net/pr
blog: http://www.parmet.net/pr

David Rhugnanan Web Desinger Trinity Effects Inc.
website: http://trinityeffects.com

Diego Sanz Web Consultant Sanz Consulting
website: http://brickellmiamicondos.com/real_estate/home/

Eduardo Henriques Managing Partner Micstura
website: http://www.micstura.com

Frank Deoleo 
Giannina Amato Team Leader Nobox
website: http://copywwwriter.wordpress.com/
blog: http://copywwwriter.wordpress.com/

Giovanny Gutierrez Dir. of Interactive Media Tinsley Advertising
website: http://www.tinsley.com
blog: http://www.giogutierrez.com

Guilherme Ambros Digital Solutions Director Wunderman, Young & Rubicam
website: http://www.wunderman.com

Gus Goodall Senior Designer British Army
website: http://www.armynet.mod.uk
blog: http://www.armynet.mod.uk

Gus Goodall Senior Designer British Army
website: http://www.armynet.mod.uk
blog: http://www.armynet.mod.uk

Jason Baptiste CEO Publictivity
website: http://publictivity.com

Jason Hawkins Video guy Make Film Work
website: http://www.makefilmwork.com
blog: http://www.solmi.net

Jennifer Cardew Graduate Student North Texas
website: http://www.twitter.com/jencardew
blog: http://www.anthroblogs.org/jcardew

Jordan Fulghum  Scrapblog
website: http://www.scrapblog.com
blog: http://blog.scrapblog.com

Jorge Perez Director of Marketing Alienware.com
website: http://www.alienware.com

Josue Rodriguez Web Developer
Judson Collier  Macteens Magazine
website: http://macteens.com
blog: http://judsoncollier.com

Justin Tarrants Biz Dev Government
Katie Novak 
ken scott UNIX network security admin prolexic
website: http://www.prolexic.com

Kevin Hale Co-Founder Wufoo
website: http://wufoo.com
blog: http://particletree.com

Kevin Wiesner 
Marco Castro CEO MTEK
website: http://mtek.tv

Marco Castro CEO MTEK
website: http://mtek.tv

Marco Castro 
Maria Bouza Project Manager dotCMS
website: http://www.dotcms.org

Maria de los Angeles Lemus Wily Wordsmith & Rogue Cartoonist Freelance
website: http://wilywordsmith.blogspot.com
blog: http://sexandthebeach.blogspot.com

Matias Blazevic Sr. Copywriter Y&R Brands
website: http://printpreview.wordpress.com/
blog: http://printpreview.wordpress.com/

Meagan Fisher User Interface Designer Helium Report
website: http://www.heliumreport.com
blog: http://www.iheartthe.com/blog

Michael Rose IT Manager
Naomi Butterfield Web Applications Developer ADS
website: http://www.techcfl.com
blog: http://rorblog.techcfl.com/

Nate Roise Founder Magnetic Properties
website: http://www.urbanhoming.com

Nathaniel McNamara Associate HIG Ventures
website: http://www.higventures.com

Nick Dominguez   
website: http://www.nickdominguez.com
blog: http://nickdominguez.com

Nicolas Scafuro Latam Search Manager Yahoo Inc.
website: http://www.yahoo.com

Pablo Godel 
Paul Kruger PHP Consultant Speeduneed Inc
website: http://miamiphp.org

Rick Bartl Managing Director, Marketing FedEx
website: http://www.fedex.com

Robert Meireles 
Roberto Bouza 
Ryan Campbell Co-Founder Wufoo
website: http://wufoo.com
blog: http://particletree.com

Stani Henriques Art Director Micstura
website: http://www.micstura.com

Steven Bristol programmer Less Everything, inc.
website: http://www.lesseverything.com
blog: b.lesseverything.com

Tim Spence Senior .NET Developer Scrapblog
website: http://scrapblog.com
blog: http://blog.scrapblog.com

Timothy Kersey   
website: http://www.twitter.com/entangledstate
blog: http://friendfeed.com/entangledstate

Zac Brown Programmer N/A
website: http://zacbrown.org
blog: http://blog.zacbrown.org

BarCampMiami is made possible through the generous contribution of our sponsors:

Ourscene: http://www.ourscene.com
FunAdvice: http://www.funadvice.com
Global Roaming: http://www.celtrek.com
Less Everything: http://www.lesseverything.com
RailsEnvy: http://www.railsenvy.com
The Boaters: http://www.theboaters.com
Myxer: http://www.myxertones.com
ServerGrove Networks: http://www.servergrove.com
DC Media Graphics: http://www.dcmediagraphics.com
infinimedia: http://www.infinimedia.com
Hyku: http://www.hyku.com
Victoria & Associates: http://www.victoriaassociates.com
Todobebe: http://www.todobebe.com
Scrapblog: http://www.scrapblog.com

And our partners!:

FOWA: http://www.futureofwebapps.com
RefreshMiami: http://www.refreshmiami.org

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