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doterati evolution • week 13 & 14 [7.27.08 - 8.9.08]

A lot of the behind the scenes administrative and operational items are in place, which will now allow us the flexibility to grow and build upon our initial infrastructure. Thanks to the board for handling so many of the not-so-sexy items necessary to get us going! I'm very excited to announce that we will be hosting a doterati launch party at Create Chaos the evening of Weds. October 15th. We'll be posting the specifics next week, so that you… Continue

Posted by Tara Lamberson on August 13, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Calling Home: A Plurk and Twitter Science Fiction Story

I love Social Media. I’m on at least five different services and spend way more time than I should on them, but I enjoy it considerably and have befriended many great people. With as much enjoyment as I get out of these services I thought it would be great if could combine together two things I feel passionately about: Social Media and Writing Fiction. But how do you develop a story in only 140 character bite sized morsels? You could write a longer piece and serialize it, or you could even writ… Continue

Posted by R. Alexander Spoerer on August 12, 2008 at 4:35pm — 2 Comments

Social Media or Coffee

It has recently become very clear to me that everyone has at least one die-hard cause that they champion. From your Mac users, to cigarette smokers, no one can ever hold a flame to coffee drinkers. Of course, I’m not speaking in generalities - the group of people I am referring to are your “French Vanilla, Venti, Latte, -ccino, double, -esso, mocha, with extra room” types. Seemingly inefficient and irritable without their java junk, these ‘caf-fiends’ come from all backgrounds. A former client o… Continue

Posted by Anthony Richardson on August 7, 2008 at 6:30pm — 6 Comments

Aurora Concept 1 - What do you think?

When you get a chance, check out this video on Aurora from Mozilla Labs. When you take into account browser's like Opera and Flock it's easy to see something like this in the near future.

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Posted by Mark Krupinski on August 5, 2008 at 8:12pm — 8 Comments

Free Internet 1 | Comcast 0 See how it went down. Keep saving the internet: http://www.savetheinter…

Free Internet 1 | Comcast 0 See how it went down. Keep saving the internet: http://www.savetheinternet.com/ Continue

Posted by Christopher N on August 5, 2008 at 1:31pm — No Comments

doterati evolution • week 11 & 12 [7.13.08 - 7.26.08]

Many of you have been asking about our first event and I promise we'll be announcing it very soon - it's going to be awesome and I can't wait to meet everyone! Our programming director, Renee Menkova, is also going to be sending out a survey to all of you requesting your feedback and input towards our overall future educational programming - I urge all of you to take the survey and pass it along to your colleagues so that we can tailor upcoming events to you! The doterati volunteer committees… Continue

Posted by Tara Lamberson on July 28, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

What do Central Floridians really want to hear about?

My good friend and I started a blog a few months ago about living in Central Florida; something non-Disney and non-theme park centric, and mainly because we're both extremely bored living here. It's called "Pulse of Central Florida." With little-to-no marketing efforts, the blog has actually been garnering some pretty decent attention, and traffic. Topics covered are anything from entertainment, people, nightlife, eating (there seems to be lots of posts on this!), shopping, music, and mo… Continue

Posted by Ashley K. Edwards on July 28, 2008 at 2:17pm — No Comments

Offshore Software Development Company India - Hiddenbrains

Hidden Brains Info Tech Pvt. Ltd. is Web 2.0 Applications Development Company of India providing ultimate solutions to offshore clients for their E-commerce requirements. Company provides existing services and added wide range of skill sets such as PHP/MySQL & ASP.Net Application Framework using number of open sources (Smarty, Joomla, Mambo, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Symfony etc.) available under GNU. Hidden Brains Info Tech Pvt Ltd team members have combined experience in website design, deve… Continue

Posted by nwilliams on July 21, 2008 at 5:50am — No Comments

Some of Central Florida's "best blogs" accounced

This week's Orlando Weekly issue is dedicated to the "best of" around Orlando and the Central Florida area. You should pick-up a copy if you haven't already; seems like it's out a bit early this week.

Several local bloggers were recognized in the "best of" categories, and I wanted to give them props here:

Best Fat-Rights Blogger http://www.therotund.com

Best Venemous Blog (even though I personally… Continue

Posted by Ashley K. Edwards on July 15, 2008 at 3:00pm — No Comments

doterati evolution • week 9 & 10 [6.29.08 - 7.12.08]

Woo hoo - we crossed the 250 member threshold on the doterati community site - only 10 weeks after we stood up the site! A huge thank you to everyone that has been spreading the word - this has truly been a word-of-mouth success story to date because we haven't worked on any 'formal' marketing pushes or employed PR tactics to acquire this initial group. Current geographical breakdown is as follows: 165 Orlando, College Park, Downtown 47 Longwood, Altamonte, Maitland, Lake Mary, Apopka, Winter P… Continue

Posted by Tara Lamberson on July 14, 2008 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments

Swimming in the Chaos!

For those of you who may not have heard, one the greatest up and coming creative industry publications, Create Magazine, closed two months ago. As the former Editor of the publication, I was saddened and shocked. But, as they say, one door closes ... I have found a new home - though it is not too far away. I am now working on Create Chaos 2008 - a super conference bringing together creative professionals from different realms under one roof for a "create-a-palooza." This conference is a new co… Continue

Posted by Dana DeLapi on July 9, 2008 at 2:53pm — 1 Comment

doterati evolution • week 7 & 8 [6.15.08 - 6.28.08]

The last two weeks flew by so quickly I missed my update in the middle... Nonetheless we've had a lot of activity and notable happenings.

Committees are starting to take shape, create structure and are making significant forward progress. Please meet our committee leaders below and drop them a line if you're interested in helping:
* Memberships: Dan Kinchen & Rob Dempsey

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Posted by Tara Lamberson on July 1, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

We had our 3rd membership committee meeting today at Chilli's in Altamonte. In attendance; - Robert…

We had our 3rd membership committee meeting today at Chilli's in Altamonte. In attendance; - Robert Dempsey - Mark Krupinski – Pete Scott - Dan Kinchen What Happened? - We locked down 4 proposed membership levels ~ Free ~ Individual (student discount option) ~ Small Business ~ Coporate - We talked about proposed membership prices - We talked about membership benefits and I assigned them to the different membership levels. We had another great meeting and we are getting prepared to have somet… Continue

Posted by Dan Kinchen on June 25, 2008 at 4:19pm — 1 Comment

My thoughts on last week's "focus group"

I know I'm a couple days late posting about last week's "focus group", but I wanted to wait until we had some video posted and my regular job got in the way ;)

So here are my thoughts:

Overall, we had a total seven volunteers show up for this event and I think, they represented a good variety of the different "tech" people in central florida.
My

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Posted by Mark Krupinski on June 24, 2008 at 9:34pm — 1 Comment

doterati evolution • week 6 [6.8.08 - 6.14.08]

Six things that happened with Doterati during week 6:

We held our first official board meeting on 6.12.08. During that meeting we approved the articles of incorporation and began reviewing bylaws, budget and organizational structure.
We submitted the necessary paperwork to secure our 501c3, non-profit status. The approved articles were part of what was required to file.
Our community director, Mark Krupinski, started to see some traction surrounding a

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Posted by Tara Lamberson on June 17, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

The Focus Group Has Been Moved...

This is a quick update to my previous post regarding the upcoming doterati focus group. This focus group will now take place on Wednesday, June 18th from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at Mindcomet. I urge anyone who is interested in creating community in Central Florida to attend. Your opinion is very valuable. Please RSVP with me directly at mark.krupinski@gmail.com before the… Continue

Posted by Mark Krupinski on June 12, 2008 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Local Media Publication Looking for 5 Drupal Developers....

I know we don't have a job board just yet and I wasn't going to use blog posts to communicate "help wanted" opportunities, but I just got contacted by a firm who like the talent she saw and I thought it would benefit everyone to share. If your a Drupal developer and looking for work, a local media publication is looking for 5 Drupal developers. Here's the original email:

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Posted by Mark Krupinski on June 11, 2008 at 1:03pm — 1 Comment

Engaging Social Media: Getting Started Guide to Social Media Marketing

This is an except from a white paper i just posted at http://techrigy.com/pdf/EngagingSocialMediaWhiteP.pdf. Any feedback, criticism, thoughts are greatly appreciated. Engaging Social Media: Getting Started Guide to Social Media Marketing Word of mouth (WOM) marketing is currently under going a renaissance. Of course, WOM is nothing new. We were using WOM long before we began studying marketing. There is no better recommendati… Continue

Posted by Aaron Newman on June 10, 2008 at 10:17pm — 3 Comments

doterati evolution • week 5 [6.1.08 - 6.7.08]

Week 5 came and went in a hurry! Some of the highlights:

Our community director, Mark Krupinski, is forming a focus group to get reaction/feedback on our proposed website structure, membership levels/value prop and other items pertaining to our foundation.
The membership committee held a meeting with sponsorship an

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Posted by Tara Lamberson on June 10, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Focus Group!

Hello,

I wanted to take a moment and reach out to everyone and let you know that we
are looking for some volunteers for a focus group. The topic of the focus
group:

Give the group a nice, face-to-face breakdown of what doterati is all
about.
Propose what being a doterati "Member" is all about
Propose ideas for our future website we'd like to build for our Members

You feedback is vital and we need it to make this community work.…

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Posted by Mark Krupinski on June 8, 2008 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

2nd Membership Committee Meeting Today.

We had our second membership committee meeting today at Rasmussen College's Maitland offices. In attendance; - Robert Dempsey - Mark Krupinski – Greg Rollett – Pete Scott – Renee Menkova –… Continue

Posted by Dan Kinchen on June 5, 2008 at 11:39am — 2 Comments

doterati evolution • week 4 [5.25.08 - 5.31.08]

Wow - I can't believe it's already June. This year has been flying by! See below for a quick summary of week 4:

We're up to 190 members in the online community; so close to that 200 mark!
The Doterati LinkedIn Group is up to 50 members.
120 people are following Doterati on Twitter and we're following 200+
A couple of new groups were created: W3C Standards and GUT

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Posted by Tara Lamberson on June 3, 2008 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

Orlando...A Leader In Innovation?

That's what Fast Company says! Here's a quick post I did on the piece from the Orlando Job Spot http://orlandojobspot.blogspot.com/2008/05/orlando-is-leader-in-innovation.html Fast Company Article I hope that we can live up to the title. What are you doing to become an innovation leader? Here's my response: Throu… Continue

Posted by Greg Rollett on May 29, 2008 at 1:53pm — 1 Comment

doterati evolution • week 3 [5.18.08 - 5.24.08]

Thank you to everyone that is rolling up their sleeves to get things going. Quite a few people have stepped up and are working on more specific objectives towards making our association a reality!

Our web team met and compared ASP solutions to open-source software for use on our member site. The team made a compelling argument to utilize Drupal for the site build out and started developing initial architecture and content requirements. Drop our web chair,

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Posted by Tara Lamberson on May 27, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Can mycelium save the planet?

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Posted by Christopher N on May 23, 2008 at 3:01am — No Comments

Membership Committee Today!

We had our first membership committee meeting today. In attendance; - Robert Dempsey - Mark Krupinski - Tara Lamberson - Chris Panebianco - Dan Kinchen We are working on our methods of ongoing communication through meetings and email as well as pin pointing whi… Continue

Posted by Dan Kinchen on May 22, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Doterati needs your help!

Hello! These are exciting times in the evolution of Doterati. As Tara Lamberson mentioned in her blog post, we had our first meeting to flesh out our vision for the Doterati website and start down the path of defining phase 1 requirements. What we've come up with so… Continue

Posted by Jeremy Hilton on May 20, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

ACTE Conference

Working the ACTE Conference in Washington DC. Gotta make some changes to ACTE Connect, which I have to say is looking pretty sweet. Met Amber MacArthur, who spoke on social networking, and she was really nice and informative. Looking forward to finishing the JuneBug project today. Continue

Posted by Christopher N on May 20, 2008 at 9:19am — No Comments

doterati evolution • week 2 [5.11.08 - 5.17.08]

Week 2 was awesome! Check out the highlights below:

501c3, article of incorporation and by-laws in progress. Initial fund raising and year 1 operating budget is also in the works.
Thanks to our new membership team, we had our 100th signup to the online community on Friday (4.16) , Cory Collier!
We also doubled our community membership from the previous Friday - we were up to 120 by sun down.
Many of you ha

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Posted by Tara Lamberson on May 20, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments

Got Time for Lunch?...

Whether you know this or not, we have some great networking events in Central Florida. There's Florida Creatives Happy Hour, coffee at LikeMind and more User Groups than you can shake a stick at. Now let's talk lunch. Other than our need and love… Continue

Posted by Mark Krupinski on May 18, 2008 at 8:30pm — 6 Comments

One Word that Describes Ning: "Wow"...

I've been a fan of Ning for over a year now, but I guess I didn't really get it. Until now. Ning is powerful. If you don't know what Ning is, you're using it right now. Ning is a platform… Continue

Posted by Mark Krupinski on May 17, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Sweet site

Hey all, I'm really just testing out this new site. Thanks to Dan for letting Josh (my bro) know about it. Continue

Posted by Jesse Phillips on May 15, 2008 at 11:46pm — 1 Comment

Why I joined Doterati...

I had a great time at the second BarCamp Orlando. Even though I didn't present, it felt good to be a part of something - whether it was attending Meet-ups… Continue

Posted by Mark Krupinski on May 14, 2008 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

doterati evolution • week 1 [5.4.08 - 5.10.08]

Hi Everyone, I felt it was important to start a weekly series providing an update on the evolution of Doterati. What I hope to provide in my posts is what's going on behind the scenes, in addition to what is publicly visible. Feel free to also ask questions and let me know what you'd like to hear about as we progress into the future. Thanks for all of the early involvement - I'm so excited to have all of you be a part of this! Doterati Quick History I've been interested in forming a gro… Continue

Posted by Tara Lamberson on May 14, 2008 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Social Media Advertising

If anyone is interested in a small case study on social media advertising I did a post on the IZEA blog. Stats, charts and detailed information you can use. The Longtail Rules the Blogosphere Continue

Posted by Ted Murphy on May 8, 2008 at 8:45pm — 1 Comment

Create Magazine Party

I'll be making an announcement tomorrow night to all of the guests at the Create party about Doterati - this should allow us to acquire some new members and gain some additional visibility in Orlando. Thanks to Katrina Priore for the opportunity! Who's going to be at the party? Continue

Posted by Tara Lamberson on May 7, 2008 at 9:48pm — 3 Comments

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