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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

CREATE South Wrap Up

The CREATE South conference has come and gone at this point. The day felt fantastic to me and the attendees seemed to generally feel the same way. It had logistical problems at points but the problems were survivable. The real power comes from getting people in the same room, talking about what matters from them [...]

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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Keynote Speaker: Ed Cone

I am proud to announce that we have confirmed as our keynote speaker Mr. Ed Cone. Ed lives in Greensboro NC with his family. He is a senior writer with Ziff Davis Enterprise for CIO Insight magazine, a columnist and a blogger. He has been a staff writer at Forbes and a contributing editor at [...]

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Friday, March 28th, 2008

Create South Audio Promo

Here is a downloadable audio promo for the Create South conference. It is Creative Commons licensed Attribution, which is more or less impossible to use without attributing it since the promo is its own attribution. For those of you friendly to our project, if you’d throw this in your own podcasts or even just your [...]

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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Create South Philosophy

Eric Rice rethinks the whole *-Camp thing. His suggestions are goofy and for comedic effect but you know, they aren’t miles away from the thinking behind Create South. From the very first conversation I ever had about it, I knew I wanted it to be more doing things and less talking about doing things. The [...]

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Monday, March 24th, 2008

Blog is Here

The CreateSouth blog is open for business. The goal will be to post here at least once every day between now and the conference. Welcome, friends. We hope to put on a good shindig for y’all.

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