Posts Tagged ‘social media’

Bora Zivkovic

Public vs. Publicized: Future of the Web at WWW2010

Monday, May 10, 2010, 10:13 am By Bora Zivkovic

It is somewhat hard to grok how much a Big Deal the WWW2010 conference is when it’s happening in one’s own backyard. After all, all I had to do was drop the kids at school a little earlier each morning and drive down to Raleigh, through the familiar downtown streets, park in a familiar parking lot, and enter a familiar convention center, just to immediately bump into familiar people – the ‘home team’ of people I have been seeing at blogger meetups, tweetups and other events for years, like Paul Jones, Ruby Sinreich, Fred Stutzman, Ryan Boyles, Wayne Sutton, Kim Ashley, Henry Copeland and others.

But it is a Big Deal. It is the ‘official’ conference of the World Wide Web. Yup, Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who invented the Web, was there. I saw him, though I did not talk to him. I mean, what excuse could I come up with to approach him? Ask him to autograph my web browser?

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Sabine Vollmer

TEDxTriangle: Old techniques and new technology to harness ideas

Monday, March 8, 2010, 8:38 pm By Sabine Vollmer

Feeling dull and uninspired? Try to practice selflessness like a Trappist monk. Play a video game that does more than entertain. Doodle.

The three tips could have come from self-help books, a consultant or a mentor. Instead, they came from the first TED talk in the Research Triangle Park area. The all-day, free event Saturday at RTP headquarters attracted more than 150 people, who on a sunny and balmy winter day sat inside, listened, did the wave and talked to people they had never met before.

Amy Calhoun

Durham couple Amy and Eric Calhoun organized TEDxTriangle, an offshoot of the TED conference, over the past 10 months using word of mouth, Twitter and Facebook to recruit speakers. In the spirit of TED, whose motto is “ideas worth spreading,” TEDxTriangle brought together local speakers willing to share their ideas and insights.

“We’ve been TED fans for a long time,” said Amy Calhoun, who runs a management consulting business. The goal of the conference, she said, was to get attendees excited, plant seeds of passion and help people connect to solve problems. Read more…

Sabine Vollmer

RTP Weekahead 3/8

Sunday, March 7, 2010, 10:18 pm By Sabine Vollmer

Events taking place the week of March 8 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public: Read more…

Sabine Vollmer

RTP Wrapup 8/9

Thursday, August 6, 2009, 10:44 am By Sabine Vollmer

This week, the Triangle scored a major research accomplishment, watched a homegrown company test Wall Street and learned that Raleigh is better than Silicon Valley for reasons that have nothing to do with state government or the Cameron Village sewer worms.

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