Archive for July, 2008

Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 31

The Beer and Blog Schedule
Justin Kistner writes “Friends, we have been Beer and Blogging it since the beginning of the year. After almost 8 months, I think we finally have a predictable format. Here’s what I’m thinking we’ll do…”
Changes: I’m joining RWW full time as VP of Content Development…and I’m getting married!!! http://bit.ly/1FZugB woo hoo! […]

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Marshall Kirkpatrick promoted to VP at ReadWriteWeb, fiance

Portland-based blogger extraordinaire, Marshall Kirkpatrick, is well-known for his investigative skills, his objective reporting, and his almost Barnum-esque flare for hinting at the “big news” he’s just about to publish.
So when @marshallk sent the following tweet on Thursday night…

… hinting at news that he had already queued up nearly a week before, a whole bunch […]

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Beyond the Forest: A List Apart Survey for People Who Make Websites 2008

Likely if you’ve ever spent any time working in Web design and development—or if you’ve ever had the opportunity to wrestle with some CSS or make your code jump through some hoops—you’ve come across A List Apart.
In 1997, web developer Brian M. Platz and I started the A List Apart mailing list because we found […]

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 30

Building the Web 2.0 enterprise - The McKinsey Global Survey Results are out
Via the Jama Software blog “Not surprising, companies are using more Web 2.0 tools and technologies now than they were last year. The latest survey results from The McKinsey Quarterly on “Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise” illustrate the growing investments in Web 2.0 […]

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Enhance your monitor tan: Summer Coders’ Social

It’s no secret that one of the best things about Portland is the summer weather. (Although the past few days have been working at doing a pretty job of keeping that secret.) It’s also no secret that the more technically inclined spend more time absorbing rays from their respective monitors than they do from that […]

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Jive Software introduces Clearstep, an online community for social and Enterprise 2.0 folks

Portland-based Jive Software has been a bit quiet as of late. Which is always a good sign that folks are up to something.
Part of that “something” was clearly their move to a new office space. And this morning, we discovered another part of that something in the form of a new offering, Clearstep:
Clearstep is […]

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Got lunch plans? Why not have “Lunch with a VC” today?

Seems like Silicon Florist has lunch on the brain as of late. What with looking for Portland Lunch 2.0 hosts and hosting a Portland Lunch 2.0 in August. So, clearly, mentioning another lunch or two won’t hurt.
Okay, let’s do that.
If you don’t have any lunch plans today, you might want to take the opportunity to […]

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 29

Geospatial Networking on Ning
Via the BlinkGeo blog “Call it visionary if you will (or perhaps just a 5 minute online detour I took a while back), but I had forgotten that I had set up a Geospatial social network on Ning.”
Ma.gnolia: Welcome, New Linkers
Via the ma.gnolia blog “Every so often we take a look at […]

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No such a thing as free lunch? There will be when Silicon Florist hosts Portland Lunch 2.0

After all of this posting about Portland Lunch 2.0 and attending Portland Lunch 2.0 and acquiring Portland Lunch 2.0, it seemed only proper that I actually put my money where my mouth is. So I thought it might be nice if I actually took the dive and hosted a Portland Lunch 2.0.
And I would really, […]

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Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 28

Drew is a Strander
Via the Strands blog “Drew [Olanoff] is joining Strands as Community Manager / Evangelist, his job is to increase the number of Strands enthusiasts and to spread Strands awesomeness. Easy.”
Open Community Wiki
Audrey Eschright writes “One of the things I realized during OSCON was that I had yet to see a central place […]

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