Category: Events
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Building a Winning Team: Attracting Human and Financial Capital
Joseph Piper, Managing Partner of Integra Ventures, and Janis Machala, Managing Partner of Paladin Partners, gave a great presentation on "Building a Winning Team" at the MIT Enterprise Forum Venture Lab forum tonight. As with the last Venture Lab I attended — on the entrepreneurial passion and discipline required to "Build a Valuable Business" —…
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New Warrior Training Adventure: A Powerful Multi-cultural and Multi-dimensional Experience
I’ve just returned from my "rookie" staffing at a New Warrior Training Adventure weekend near Albany, NY: a multi-cultural NWTA co-sponsored by the Upstate NY, New England, and Montreal communities within the Mankind Project (MKP). It was a powerful experience on multiple levels for me, made all the moreso by the opportunity to participate in…
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Microsoft Social Computing Symposium: April 25-26
Microsoft Research is sponsoring a second Social Computing Symposium to be held April 25-26, 2005, presumably somewhere in the greater Redmond / Seattle area. [Update: I initially posted the wrong dates in the first sentence and the title; the correct dates are there now — April 25-26.] Like last year’s event, which was invitation-only, the…
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Entrepreneurial Passion and Discipline: Dan Rosen and Russ Stockdale @ MIT Enterprise Forum
Dan Rosen (co-founder and general partner of Frazier Technology Ventures and chair of the Alliance of Angels) and Russ Stockdale (Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for Clearsight Systems) gave a clear, concise and compelling presentation at the MIT Enterprise Forum in Seattle tonight on the importance — and necessity — for passion and discipline…
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Planetwork Seattle: Proactive Displays, Interra and the Identity Commons
I attended a Planetwork Seattle meeting on Sunday, and it was a mind- and spirit-boggling experience. Eileen sent me an announcement for the Planetwork Networking forum on Saturday, which invited "anyone who is either working on developing software which could be used for social networking or in other ways to address the world’s problems, OR…
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NWEN Pub Night: Beer, Pizza and Passion
I attended my first Northwest Entrepreneur Network Pub Night at Hales Ales on Thursday. Highlights include the Red Menace Big Amber (a very hoppy ale with an interesting combination of Caramel, Carastan and a handful of Black Malts), the best pizzas I’ve had since moving away from Chicagoland, and a lineup of short, passionate and…
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Warrior Monk: A Spiritual and Soulful Retreat
I attended a four-day retreat, Warrior Monk, before the holidays, with the goal of achieving greater clarity, courage and commitment in following my heart. The workshop "welcomes those in transition and those seeking their next level of authentic growth, healing and spiritual connection," and includes a combination of meditation, poetry reading and writing, chanting, singing…
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Frontchannels, Backchannels and Sidechannels at CSCW 2004
CSCW 2004 was an engaging experience along numerous dimensions. In addition to an interesting collection of papers, panels and keynotes presented in the frontchannel(s), we had WiFi coverage and designated IRC channels throughout all the sessions. In one session, we projected the IRC window onto the main presentation screen, moving the backchannel toward the frontchannel,…
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Representations of Identity: Digital and Physical
CSCW 2004 was a great conference on multiple dimensions (for me); personal highlights include participating in a great workshop, exploring Chicago, co-presenting a paper, co-organizing a panel and being inspired by the closing plenary. I’m going to post separate entries for each of these, starting with the workshop. The workshop was on "Representations of Digital…
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Backblogged
It’s been a busy week — so much to blog about, yet so little time to blog … leaving me feeling rather backblogged (which I’ll define as "[n] an accumulation of insights or experiences not yet recorded or posted electronically"). I enjoyed a great visit with my friends and former colleagues at Accenture Technology Labs…