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Gnomedex Day 2

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  • Posted on August 11th, 2007 by User ImageRick

The day started off a bit slow with first time speakers and producers of GeekBrief.TV Cali Lewis and her husband Neal Campbell. It wasn’t just their first time speaking at Gnomdex but first time speaking in public and it showed. To their credit and in keeping with the message of their talk “just start”; [...]

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  • Posted on August 10th, 2007 by User ImageRick

About half of the attendees are live blogging the event. The other half of us are fighting with our internet connections. Since I am unable to live blog effectively please take a look at several others who are liveblogging.
CrapMonkey didn’t appreciate Robert Steele’s presentation but loved Guy Kawasaki.
The theme was “open government,” presented by Robert [...]

Guy Kawasaki at Gnomedex

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  • Posted on August 10th, 2007 by User ImageRick

I have heard of and about Guy Kawasaki for a very long time, read his blog more than a few times. Until today I hadn’t heard him speak. Bottom line he is great!
Halfway through his talk I feel inspired.
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Gnomedex 7.0 Opening Keynote Robert Steele

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  • Posted on August 10th, 2007 by User ImageRick

This morning’s opening keynote speaker Robert Steele is dropping bombs. This presentation is supposed to be about Open Source but Steele (a former spy and self proclaimed “moderate Republican” is off the rails. He opened with the statement that Dick Cheney had created at least 25 impeachable offenses. I missed quite a few [...]

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Right after WordCamp is Gnomedex which means lots of awesome blogging to come

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  • Posted on July 17th, 2007 by User ImageTris Hussey

At the end of the week I’m heading down to San Fran to WordCamp and will, of course, be live blogging it here on BlogWorldExpo. Then there’ is one of my favourite conferences, Gnomedex. Blog Business Summit is my favourite, I think, because it’s where I had my breakout as a blogger, but [...]

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