How to follow an event on twitter (March 12th, 2009 - 3,708)
Twitter can provide a fantastic backchannel to have conversations during events. The conversation always varies but you might find comments about what the speakers are talking about, links to photos and live video streams, the usernames of people you have met there so that you can follow them, and most importantly discussion about what bar everyone is [...]
Peter Williams talks business at The Hive (February 19th, 2009 - 3,173)
Peter Williams, CEO of Deloitte Digital, spoke at The Hive last week. This is the first episode of the new Hive Podcast – subscribe to us in iTunes to get updates each month as we run the events. Here are my notes from the night: Ideas. Have lots of them. Be passionate, but be prepared [...]
The Interesting* and Hive events (January 12th, 2009 - 4,805)
I’m interested in what makes events worth sharing, both as a co-founder of The Hive and as somebody who likes going to interesting events – so when I heard that Interesting has a similar format to The Hive I thought I would take a closer look, and it turns out they share some key insights. I think [...]
Silicon Beach Melbourne (November 5th, 2008 - 9,709)
Meetups are important. As much as the internet promises to connect us all around the world, nothing beats face to face interaction. Let’s step away from our screens for a moment and head to a bar. Elias Bizannes created the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list with the message: Silicon Valley has a supporting ecosystem that makes [...]
