Portland Social Media

Ignite Portland

Ignite Portland
www.igniteportland.com
Thursday, October 25th, 6-9pm
Wieden+Kennedy (224 NW 13th Ave, Portland, OR)

Ignite is coming to Portland! Share burning ideas.

If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers. Topics range all over the map - from straight-up tech to creative arts to hobbies to general knowledge topics. Ignite Portland on October 25th will the first in an ongoing series of Ignite events in Portland and we invite you to be part of it.

We have a confirmed date and venue for the first Ignite Portland event! Thursday, October 25, 2007, at Wieden+Kennedy (224 NW 13th Ave, Portland, OR) from 6PM to 9PM, and is free for all. The W+K space is amazing - many thanks to Renny Gleeson and everyone at W+K for being willing to host the event.

If you’re interested in getting a taste of Ignite, take a look at the talk “How to Buy a New Car” by Rob Gruhl at Ignite Seattle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPor5b7JLLE

We need your help to make Ignite Portland a fantastic event. Here’s what you can do…

1) If you plan to attend, please add yourself to the Ignite Portland Upcoming page as an attendee. This will help us get a more accurate attendance count and plan accordingly for food and drinks:

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/265888/

2) Forward this blog post on to people that may have an interest in attending, blog it, Twitter it, invite your Facebook friends, however you connect on the Internet! As we have done little marketing of the event (so far), assume that your local social network doesn’t know about it yet. All are invited - this is not a tech-specific event, although many of the presentations will likely be tech-related (some will not - as the example talk above represents).

3) Grab the promotional graphic from the right nav of the Ignite Portland web site, add it to your own site or blog, with a link back to Ignite Portland. You can also just point to the promotional graphic using HTML:

http://www.igniteportland.com/wp-content/uploads/igniteportland102007.gif

4) Are you interested in being a presenter? Add you idea to the Ignite Portland Presenters page as a blog comment, as we will be reviewing idea submissions shortly:

http://www.igniteportland.com/want-to-present/

5) Help identify sponsors. Intel and Jive Software are already on-board as sponsors, and W+K, of course, providing the venue. We are looking for additional sponsors to cover food, drinks, and signage. This is a not for profit event. 100% of sponsor dollars are for printing and refreshment costs.

We hope to see you at Ignite Portland! It’s going to be a blast.

Pictures from the Portland Blogger Dinner

Steve (ScaleOvenStove on Flickr) posted his pictures from the successful Portland Blogger Dinner a few weeks back.  Again, thanks to everyone involved (Josh Bancroft, Jive Software, etc.) for putting on a great event!

Portland Blogger Dinner

Calling all PDX blogger geeks! Josh Bancroft has organized a Blogger Dinner at Jive Software Thursday evening, July 18th, from 6pm - 10pm.

Jeremiah Owyang and Robert Scoble will be in Portland Thursday night, joining us for the blogger dinner.

The dinner is sponsored and will be hosted at Jive Software, who will be providing all food (A selection from Elephants Deli) and Wine and Beer.

LOCATION
Jive Software
317 SW Alder Suite 500
Portland Or 97204

You enter the building on Alder in-between 3rd and 4th and take the elevator to the 5th floor.

Diet Restrictions? If you’ve any special diet needs, please specify below. If you can come, please sign up here

Important: This is still a community event, so there the focus will be on people meeting people. If you want to learn more about Jive, they will have an opt-in demo if you’re interested.

Thank you Jive for sponsoring this dinner.

BTW: I’ve met so many fine people from Portland in the web industry, but they say they rarely get around to meeting each other, this must end! Let’s see the Portland web community grow!

We’re Meeting Tomorrow

The Portland Social Media group is meeting tomorrow at 5pm on the 2nd floor of the Portland Center For The Performing Arts - 1111 SW Broadway Portland, OR (this is right next door to the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall). The Platform International Animation Festival is happening this week in Portland and it’s the only major animation festival in the United States.

Come and hang out with us and a gaggle of young, bright animators who are exploring the new challenges and possibilities that contemporary and future technologies bring to animation.

You can RSVP on our EventBrite page - you don’t have to pay for a PLATFORM ticket, our meeting is FREE, so come and join us!

Interactive Specialist Position

Dan Harbison, who gave a great talk a few months back at one of our meetings, asked me to see if I knew anyone that would be great for an open position at the Portland TrailBlazers. If you’re a rock star with Flash and live on the Internet, take a look at the job description after the jump.

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