I’m at the first Utah Bloggers conference, and it’s fun to see the size of the community here. Ryan Money from HireVue kicked off the meeting, and quickly went into the panel discussion.
The group of panelists included Cydni Tetro, Phil Burns, Phil Windley, Tim Stay, and Pete Ashdown.
The questions varied from what blogging software is being used, to
making money with your blog. It was good to hear them all.
I really liked one thing that Pete Ashdown said about the record of
your history on the Internet … he referred to that as the “… price
of integrity.” Instead of going to edit your history - such as on
the Wikipedia - you simply live honestly with the choices that you have
made.
One of the people stood up and admitted that he doesn’t yet have a blog
… he wanted to know what to do to start. Phil Windley suggested
his essay How to Start a Blog. Nice … it’s the first result when you search Google for that sentence.
Ryan wrapped things up talking about how we really do have a good
blogging community. Utah is continuing to grow rapidly, and the
growth from people moving to Utah is fueling the tech industry
here. We are slowly gaining some real momentum. There are
going to be some future events …
That was it for now … I’m going to get some other video … another YouTube video …
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Man … too many new things since returning form the Philippines.
I’m going to get back into the habit of regular blogging … and I’m at
the Utah Blogger event tonight which is kicking me into gear.
I got home on the 1st of June, and thought long and hard about what I
have been doing with my life. I’ve been working at Agilix Labs and
having a lot of fun, however I realized that I wanted to do more … to
further pursue some Web 2.0 projects. In addition, Agilix is
realigning its direction to more focus on the student and mobilized
learning market … and for now not as much focus on the SDK and
developer community. I made the choice … time to move on!
I’m still going to be working closely with Agilix on some specific
projects, but I am now back out in the consulting world. I’ve
already landed two consulting deals, both which are working on some
cool new technologies and human-oriented services. I’ll be
blogging more about them as I get rolling and into the groove of the
new routines. What is really fun already is working deep in the
Web again … I’m developing in both ‘realms” … AMP and .NET.
The AMP development involves a lot of Javascript and AJAX, and has been
a great learning experience. It also involves a lot of digital
video, and so I get to play back in one of my favorite hobbies …
video editing. I’m not a pro at it … I just like to play
around. I posted my first video to YouTube and am going to be
posting a number of others.
The .NET development is for a social networking site … but
more. It’s actually looking to create a new type of media …
combined media … interactive media. I guess it’s kind of like
true ‘multimedia’ … a new way to deliver a media experience ‘wrapped’
into a single download. What is really cool also is that the site
is already leveraging some of the most advanced Atlas technologies
ffrom Microsoft … so taking the site to new levels of interactivity
and customization.
On top of this … I’m working on my new Software Development
Outsourcing company. The web site is coming quickly, and after I
have now been using a half dozen developers from overseas, I am ready
to share the power of these people with anyone interested.
Anyhow … I’m going to listen and blog about the Utah Blogger conference …
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