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We are attending and hoping to present but its a long ride from Ireland for just one event
Its weird how I sign up for all this sites, don't use them for a while and then suddenly they start becoming useful.
Do you know of any sites where I can tick a bunch of people I am 'following' and which then alerts me to any public speaking events they are doing within a user selected distance of where I live.
Maybe you should sponsor or help organize an unconference/BarCamp around the time of TechCrunch20. Perhaps at one of the many coworking spaces in the area (click my name for more).
Raines
FYI, I’m told they have room for about 150 and we have nearly 300 RSVP'd. I’m so going to get it from Meagan when this event starts.
Re: Scoble’s mention of Upcoming. I wholeheartedly agree. Various Lunch 2.0 hosts started using Upcoming events as a way of managing or limiting their event size. Since Lunch 2.0 is entirely community driven, the community needed something like Upcoming so that smaller venues could host right along with the huge ones. Now I hear people have heard of us because, Lunch 2.0 events sometimes reach the top of their Upcoming page. How cool is that?
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/07/30/c...
Also, like Scoble, finding events through friends on Upcoming and Socializr as well as finding out who to meet up with at the event are two great features of the site (and Facebook, btw, though it isn’t nearly so easy).
http://www.socializr.com/
(unfortunately, i always have trouble using the Upcoming UI to look up past events -- Andy: can you fix that pleez? ;)
People tell me that they use my list (I tend to add a lot of the stuff watching) as reference list of relevant events and go on from there.
[Too bad that the recent updates benefit the occasional user whereas a person like myself screams at the screen regulary with upcoming.]
Depending on what your goal is, it really makes sense to go into community meetings as well. And if you are not going to have a sponsorship, very often there are cheaper ways to still attend, even if you have to fund the travel.
For example, size 10 is the most common shoe size in the US. So by the "Crowdsourcing" method, I should wear size 10 shoes even though my feet happen to be size 11.
OUCH!!!
Just for the record, I am but a mere CO-founder of BMUG. Reese Jones (who did Farallon which became Netopia and now does VC stuff) was the real founder and initiator; Tom Chavez and others helped. I just happened to be the one that stuck around the longest. And now I'm bringing that quarter century of experience to real-world communities: cohousing (click my name for info) and coworking. On upcoming, you can click through on my name and see what else I'm going to or watching.