Welcome to the Greensboro Telegram Sponsor
admin September 13th, 2008
The new (beta) Greensboro Telegram is a sponsor-in-kind for ConvergeSouth 2008. Visit their beta site and look for the ConvergeSouth banner. The Raleigh Telegram site is here.
Historic Greensboro Walking Tour
admin September 13th, 2008
Want to take a walk after a long (and fun-filled) conference day? Benjamin Briggs, Executive Director of Preservation Greensboro, Inc., will lead a historic walking tour from downtown Greensboro (near the hotels) to the ConvergeSouth Community BBQ (in and around Hoggard’s home in the historic Aycock Neighborhood). The tour begins at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, October 16, 2008 and the walk is approximately 1-1.5. miles. Our own Mr. Briggs is a walking, talking font of fun info and history. This is a special 2008 ConvergeSouth event - bring your kids, family and friends! (Meeting details will be posted here soon. Check back for updates.)
Secret location disclosed
admin September 13th, 2008
The Video Walking event on Thursday, October 16, has its secret location disclosed. Learn where we will be getting our free video-editing software and learning how to edit the video we shoot. Many thanks to Tom Lassiter’s helpful introduction and Captain Harold Haynie’s hospitality for the ConvergeSouth Video Walkers. Seating is limited; register here (and soon).
Video Tour Leaders are Tom Lassiter and Robert Scoble. Jim Schlosser is our historic tour guide.
Microsoft - New ConvergeSouth Sponsor
admin August 7th, 2008
ConvergeSouth is pleased to announce that Microsoft is a new conference sponsor in 2008. Microsoft is mentoring our video / photo walking tour and supplying free software to tour participants. In addition, Microsoft will provide experts to lead breakout sessions for the special Guilford County Schools’ top IT students who are special invitees to ConvergeSouth 2008. They will lead additional sessions that will be of great interest to ConvergeSouthers. Even better, Microsoft will be supplying tools and resources for technically-oriented people at ConvergeSouth 2008. Join us in welcoming Microsoft to ConvergeSouth 2008!
ConvergeSouth 2008 Conference Schedule
admin July 2nd, 2008
We’re excited that three NC A&T State University profs are presenting break-out sessions at ConvergeSouth 2008. Their topics and the entire schedule (always subject to tweaking) will be (more completely) online at the end of July after Ed Cone and Sue perform their annual coffee-filled scheduling conference at an undisclosed location somewhere in downtown Greensboro on July 16. If you would like to join us to help with scheduling, please let Sue know in comments.
If you have last-second suggestions for presenters, it’s important that you also let us know and include the person’s:
- Contact information
- Links to let us know who they are and what they’re good at doing
- Whether or not you know them and can help us contact them
- Remember: we don’t pay speaker fees. We can sometimes help with travel for super presenters.
Keynote 2008 - Chris Rabb
admin May 18th, 2008
Chris Rabb will keynote ConvergeSouth 2008. We invited Chris right after he participated in a ConvergeSouth 2007 panel - you don’t let the jewels drive out of town without a re-invitation!
From his site: Chris Rabb is a consultant, social commentator, and “netroots” activist.
He has been covered by or featured on C-SPAN, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, various nationally syndicated radio shows on NPR, Air America Radio and XM Radio, having also been an on-air guest on radio shows hosted by Tavis Smiley, Michael Eric Dyson, Bev Smith, and Al Sharpton. Mr. Rabb is also a published writer, having written for such publications as The Nation, Colorlines, Mother Jones and Savoy Magazine. A former columnist at the Yale Daily News, Mr. Rabb was also a stand-up comedian while in college and is a trained improvisational comedy performer and group facilitator. He has spoken at conferences, universities, corporations and other venues across the U.S., Europe and Brazil.
Read more about Chris Rabb here.
Converging on Video
admin May 18th, 2008
Due to a gracious and generous sponsorship from Carolinanet, ConvergeSouth 2008 is able to open registration for the Video Tour. (big YAY!)
Carolinanet’s sponsorship enables us to rent two vans to take up to 28 CS’ers and their video cameras on a video tour of Greensboro. After the tour, all the video will be group edited (watch out, you might just learn some new skills!) and as time goes on, turned into a couple of ConvergeSouth Greensboro videos. Thanks to Tom Lassiter (once again) for hooking me up with one of our heretofore unknown (to me) Greensboro video heroes from one of Tom’s user groups (that is, “group that Tom attends”). We’re working on our group editing location (as yet undisclosed) and our two video tour leaders are Robert Scoble and Tom Lassiter with a nudge over at the Lenslinger to drop his name into the big hat.
Registration is limited to 28 tushies (with our two tour leaders adding two tushes to the group). First registered, first to hop on the bus. Date: October 16 (Weds.) noon-6 p.m. with dinner with the gang afterward. Read the only two “rules” at the ConvergeSouth 2008 site. (We have two registrations already. Serves you right - get on the Google Group list for breaking news.)
Cemala Foundation Awards ConvergeSouth Grant
admin April 29th, 2008
Today, The Cemala Foundation let us know that they awarded ConvergeSouth a 2008 grant for the conference. This generous grant will enable us to bring in nationally-recognized speakers and offset costs for food and our small administration expenses. Many thanks to everyone at The Cemala Foundation for their gracious support of this community-based conference.
Great proposals coming in
admin April 20th, 2008
We’re getting great proposals for breakout sessions for ConvergeSouth 2008. If you haven’t send in yours, consider doing so soon. What would be a cool topic? How about gaming? Online resources? What’s on the horizon? Legal Issues 102? The only limit is what you can think of and send in as a proposal.
Topics submitted so far include:
- Social Networking for Bloggers
- Interactive vs. Traditional Marketing Agencies
- Power Networking with Twitter, Blogs, and Social Bookmarking
- Using new media effectively in the classroom
- Social Media in the Newsroom (newspapers/TV)
- Building a “Persona” for your Podcast
- What are the advantages and/or disadvantages of joining a Blog/Podcast Network?
The PR Lady
admin April 8th, 2008
Meet Tina, the PR volunteer for ConvergeSouth. Expect to see some press releases (in all sorts of media) from Tina, whose blog is here. You have to appreciate a blogger who devotes an entire post to the difference between “losing” and “loosing.”