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TED, in their own words is “an intellectual circus for ideas. Presenters don’t lecture but rather amaze, entertain and present ideas in 18 minutes or less.” So to distill it is to strip it of its meaning … meaning that what I’m about to do is a woefully inadequate substitute for the real experience. It’s like when you tell that joke and nobody laughs, you shrug and say, “I guess you had to be there.” Well kids, you had to be there. (more…)
5:57pm: Kapow! That blew by fast. Hope y’all enjoy the live coverage of TEDxSMU on the Cohabitat blog. This quite honestly one of the best things I’ve ever decided to do, I’m glad we could share the ride together. I’m sure this won’t be the last time we see each other. Feel free to follow me on Twitter until next time at http://twitter.com/ajaywaghray/. I’ll keep you up-to-date on what’s going on with me since we’re such good friends now. In the meantime, I’m gonna try to see if I can sneak my way into the TEDxSMU after-party at Reel FX Studios. Take care, until next time!
- A-Slice
5:19pm: POLYPHONIC SPREE!!! Side note, I saw these guys at ACL in 2003. They’re awesome, I can’t wait.
5:16pm: If you guys have been enjoying this blog, I’m going to have some of my own stuff up soon. Feel free to follow me on Twitter, @ajaywaghray. Shameless plug over. P.S. TEDxDubai has 1,000 attendees. WOW!!
5:11pm: Sorry I didn’t post for a while, Turk really roped me in. He was discussing what he did for a school in Africa, planting trees, building rainwater collection systems, and a high school for the kids to continue their education.
“It’s not hard to changed the world. Just pick an issue you care about, and take action.”
5:03pm: “Women grow 80% of the food in the world and own less than 10% of the land.”
5:00pm: “The cameraman that took this picture told me that I looked like a human q-tip.” (more…)
With 275+ confirmed for the recent “Developer Garage,” we organizers were starting to fret about our best laid plans to host a mixed crowd of technical developers and more business/marketing types in Uptown. With the gracious support from Intel and Facebook, we were able to put on a stellar event at the Rosewood Crescent Hotel; which happens to be the nicest hotel around and it’s just a stone’s throw from CoHabitat (Thanks Intel!)
Now, we both know developers are more fond of comfort wear, snarky t-shirts and flip-flops than the regular Crescent crowd but that’s where the fun began. It reminded me of Deadheads descending on Vegas for the annual Grateful Dead show.
We kicked off the event in two separate tracks: a marketing track led by Blake Burris and technical track led by Tyler Fields. Speakers included local entrepreneurs and developers as well as agency folks representing The Richards Group (Chik-fil-A) and IMC2 (Pizza Hut). We took a break around 3:45 for drinks and tasty appetizers then re-convened to a combined room for a panel discussion featuring speakers from both tracks. We estimate that throughout the afternoon there were about 200 in attendance. The presentations are linked below.
Photo credit: Eugene Hsu
We adjourned the event at 5:30 for pizza, cold beer, t-shirts waiting at CoHabitat (the startup community and coworking space in Uptown), for socializing and music from our regular DJ, Joey Liechty. We also drew names for the netbook from Intel. Thanks also to Albert Lai at Kontagent for donating some trail accounts and to Justin Smith of InsideFacebook for several Faceboook Marketing Bibles.
Party photos courtesy of John Joseph Bachir.
If you’d like to learn more about the Facebook developer & marketing community in Dallas, join our group: Facebook Developers Dallas. We’ll be organizing more regular meetings now that we have a convenient meeting space at CoHabitat.
Speakers and presentations:
Chris St. John, Praxis Bridge “Third party services – A tale of intrigue, betrayal and murder”
Jake Good, Drop.io “digital content switchboard”
Giovanni Gullucci, Measuring Your ROI / Facebook Marketing
Andy Chen / Chris Stevens, Traxo
Bobby MacFarland, SuperRewards – please contact Bobby directly for info: bobby@srpoints.com
Thanks to everyone who made this event rock. Your organizer team, Blake, Tyler, Scott, Stormy.
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