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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
CREATE South Wrapup for 2009
The 2009 edition of the CREATE South conference is a wrap! We had right at 100 people come out on a beautiful Saturday in Myrtle Beach to spend the day with like-minded individuals, network, teach and learn. We had some anxieties going into it as this was a bigger conference than last year [...]
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
CREATE South Details for Attendees
Here is the text of an email I’ll be sending out to the mailing list today:
Hi everyone,
CREATE South is happening in two days! The event will be in Myrtle Beach on Saturday April 25th at the Grand Strand campus of Horry-Georgetown Technical College, a few blocks from Market Commons. A map to the event is [...]
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
CREATE South is this Saturday!
Only a few more day until this year’s CREATE South conference! Our list of programming is now almost completely up to date with all times and sessions. The last minute details are coming together and all is right with our world. Come be a part of it if you can!
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Today is CREATE South Donation Day
Today is the day we have set aside as our “donation day” for the CREATE South conference, our day devoted to educating people about the intersection of new media and creatitvity. It will be held in Myrtle Beach SC this April 25th.
Times are tough, but if you are sympathetic to the cause and have a [...]
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
CREATE South 2009 Is Coming April 25th, 2009
We are hard at work planning the 2009 CREATE South conference. It will be April 25th, 2009 and will be held at the Grand Strand campus of Horry-Georgetown Technical College. This is the one near Market Commons and Myrtle Beach State Park. For 2009 we will have a strong emphasis on art (the “A” in [...]
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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.
