Lighting a fire under the Valley's creative community!
Now that we have established a date and location we are now looking for presentation submissions. The awesome thing about the Ignite program is that there are already Ignite’s going on all around the country so we have examples of what is being done. Below we have embedded a number of videos from the Ignite > Read more
Things are really moving along on Ignite Phoenix. Our date is secured (August 12th), as is our location (Jobing.com HQ) and submissions should open up any day. Roger and I gave a quick pitch about it at the Phoenix Social Media Club, and James Britt of Refresh Phoenix fame has given us a mention! I > Read more
We are excited, nay, even a little bit stoked to have a date and venue for the first Ignite Phoenix event! When: Tuesday, August 12th, about 6:00pm – 9:00pm Where: Jobing.com (22nd St & Camelback) We announced the date last night at the Phoenix Social Media Club, which was nice enough to give us some > Read more
We have an IgnitePhoenix Twitter account on the air, and encourage everyone to follow it for updates and status as we keep working. We’ll be adding our Tweetstream to the front page of our blog in the next few days, and if anyone has a favorite plugin for adding it to WordPress, let us know!
What appeals to me about O’Reilly’s Ignite format is the free and open information exchange and the incredible opportunity to network. There are only about 15 presentations in a night, 5 minutes each, with a rock hard stop at the end. At 5 minutes, you’re off the stage and the next one begins. We put > Read more
Yes its our Hello World! post. I was hoping for this moment: HELLO WORLD! Sarcasm aside I am very excited to be working on the project with Jeff. Our hope is to genuinely create a tech culture here in Phoenix. Not a tech business network but a tech culture, meaning a group of people who > Read more
