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Diversity in Conferences

Jan 8, 2010 2:10pm

I'm kinda torn on the wh0le issue of diversity in conferences. Tech conferences specifically of course. We strive to make our events appeal to anyone and everyone, women, men, children (no joke) etc. I think the whole debate over there not being enough women in tech and women at conferences is...

Great post on “beginners guide to Attending Conferences”

Sep 23, 2009 8:36am

Neil has a really great article on attending conferences, go check it out. This post is just my thoughts on some of his points. As a conference organizer (our 36 events, and Ignite and some other stuff I want to do) it's funny how many people don't follow these guidelines, that...

Tom’s leaving after the next 360|Flex

Sep 16, 2009 8:30am

As you may or may not know, I (Tom Ortega) will be leaving the 360|Conferences business after our next 360|Flex show in March of 2010. You can read about my personal reasons for leaving here. You can try to replace me over at the 360|Flex blog. :) 360|Conferences was one of...

Trying new things!

Aug 17, 2009 8:00am

One odd thing about running conferences is that it's hard to iterate. We've treated each event as a learning process, taking the good and bad, learning and then making the next event better. The only problem is the 'next event' is 6 months or more away. Not only is it hard...

It’s a busy Summer!

Jul 13, 2009 12:50pm

We realized there wasn’t any single place to point people to our roster of conferences this summer. These are in order: InsideMobile – july 26-27. San Jose CA. InsideRIA – August 23-24. San Jose CA. 360|iDev – September 27-30. Denver CO. 360|MAX – October 4-7. Los Angeles CA. RIAdventure360 – December 6-13. New Orleans (Departing) Clearly we’re...

3 Things to make conferences better, according to Harvard Biz Review

Jun 30, 2009 8:15am

I've had this article open in a tab since, well it was published. I've been wanting to comment on it, since I don't think it's 100% right. YOu can read the entire thing at the HBR site, but I'll paste the main points 1. Conferences and meetings should tell unique stories. True,...

Tips for Event Planning for Developers

Jun 17, 2009 11:48am

We don’t want to sound cocky, but there’s no way for us to write this without it. Therefore, call us cocky, but really, how hard is it to throw a developer event? People constantly tell us how our shows rock. We give credit to speakers (they do most of the talking)...

It’s gonna be a busy summer!

May 25, 2009 8:05am

Tom and I first met Steve Weiss at 360|Flex San Jose '07 (Yeah the very first one) and we hit it off immediately. Steve's an awesome guy so it wasn't hard for us to like him. We talked at length about our thoughts on conferences, our approach, our goals, etc. The friendship...

The 4 W’s

May 8, 2009 8:36am

I'm quickly becoming a fan of the small Biz Bee blog. This post was especially worth addressing here, since for many the answers might surprise or at least lead to "Ah that makes sense". So here are our 4 W's 1. Who are you? Tom and John, for short. We (maybe more...

Core Competency is Important

May 6, 2009 8:14am

Facebook is doing quite well as far as I can tell. I'm a casual user, keeping my info up to date, creating events and such for my work efforts, but it's not open in a tab in Firefox all day. Heck, my mom is on Facebook, it doesn't get much...