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New Short Survey for Carrboro Coworking

By On March 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Would you please take my new survey? It’s short. Go to this url to complete. http://ccc.sp1.sgizmo.com

Carrboro Coworking is moving steadily forward. I’m about to make some big decisions and could really use your help.

If you haven’t taken the first Carrboro Coworking survey I’d really appreciate it if you did. Might [...]

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New Press about Carrboro Coworking

By On February 1, 2008 · 1 Comment

There is a good article up at the Carrboro Commons called Carrboro’s Creative Coworking in the works. It covers pretty well what Carrboro Coworking will be all about and where I’m at right now in the process. Its been a amazing trip to get this far. So much more todo. But we’re close [...]

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Dreaming of Cool Accountants

By On January 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I’m trying out this new video services called Seesmic that so many folks are jazzed about. Decided to share videos about my odd dreams with you. Thanks for the invite Wayne!

Update Within minutes I have a video response to my first real seesmic video! Amazing! see it at RE: Dream [...]

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Evaluating Product Ideas

By On December 17, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Evan Williams of Blogger, Odeo, and Twitter fame has a great blog post up called Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea. Its actually helping me evaluate my ideas. Especially my business ideas. Check out his Ten Rules for Web Startups too.

Tractability
Question: How difficult [...]

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Best Biz Blog

By On November 18, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Last Wednesday I went to a Social Media Club event at Ignite’s offices in Cary. We talked about a ton of things. But the one part I’ve can’t stop thinking about is what businesses blog well.

My favorite example of business blogging is the Twitter blog. They promote good uses [...]

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Chapel Hill Startup Weekend

By On October 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Last night I met Gwen Bell. She told me about an event she’s organizing called Startup Weekend. She was part of the group that first pulled it off it Denver. Now its coming to Chapel Hill on November 2-4.

http://chapelhill.startupweekend.com

Startup Weekend is an idea, an experiment, a chance gather the tech [...]

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7 Principles of Community Building

By On October 7, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The social media for business blog Now is Gone has a damn cool post by Geoff Livingston called The Seven Principles of Community Building. Nice to see this codified. Bloggers live much of this by instinct. This is GREAT advice.

1) Do not try to control the message

2) Honesty, ethics [...]

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YOU determine Radiohead’s Album Cost

By On October 2, 2007 · 1 Comment

The NYTimes is reporting that Radiohead’s upcoming album “In Rainbows” will be available for download Oct. 10. Only the entire album, in non DRM audio files, will be available for download. At the same time they are selling a box of vynl, cds, etc from their website.

Nothing new here ‘cept they will, [...]

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Social Software and Multimedia Consultant for Hire

By On September 24, 2007 · 1 Comment

I am now available for hire to consult on the creation, care, and feeding of online communities. Plus I can create audio and video for the web. To get an idea of my professional experience you can check out my resume here and my portfolio here.

I’ve been contributing to and creating blogs [...]

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Shared Space for Creative Work

By On September 12, 2007 · Leave a Comment

UNC student run newspaper the Daily Tar Heel has a article today about my Coworking business plan. Its called Resident plans shared space for creative work. It does a good job of describing what I want to do and has quotes from the wonderful Tara Hunt of Citizen Space (a huge influence [...]

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