CREATE South Conference in Myrtle Beach » Misc

CREATE South Details for Attendees

dave — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:53:12 +0000

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 here: http://tinyurl.com/dfypzr

Registration will open at 8:45 AM, opening remarks will start at 9:15 AM and our first keynote is at 9:30 AM. A full list of the days events is up on the website and can be used to get a feel for the day. That page is at http://www.createsouth.org/program.php

We’ve created a Twitter account for the conference if you want to get last minute details or track our progress: http://twitter.com/createsouth

Here’s some notes and details for the day of the event:

- Lunch, snacks, coffee and water will be provided. If you have specific drinks you’d like, it would be helpful if you’d bring a six or twelve pack of your favorite beverage. There are so many drink choices nowadays it is mind boggling to plan ahead for them all.

- There will be an informal get-together on Friday night for attendees of the conference who are already in town. It will be 7 PM at the Liberty Steakhouse at Broadway at the Beach. If you’d like to come or need more details, RSVP to dslusher@gmail.com so that we can get an idea of the size of the tables we’ll need.

- For those of you who have creative items to sell, bring them with you. We are going to experiment this year with a vendor table of sorts. Musicians, bring copies of your CDs. Authors with books or artists with prints, bring them. If in doubt, bring your stuff.

- Networking and meeting people is the best part of our conference. Bring business cards if you have them, fliers for things you want to promote. If nothing else, print out your website and email address on a sheet of paper 20 times and cut out little fortune cookie sized slips of paper with your contact information.

- Our conference is designed to be valuable to people of all experience levels from absolute beginners to advanced experts across a wide range of topics. If you come with a clear idea of specific things you want to learn (”I want to start a blog”, “I want to get more use out of social media”, “How can podcasting help my business?”, etc) then it will be that much easier to make a connection with people that can help you.

- Above all else, this should be fun. Be prepared to meet interesting new people, to talk over common interests and to find new ways to be edified.

If you have need any more information about anything, feel free to email info@createsouth.org with questions. We look forward to seeing you on Saturday!

- Dave

CREATE South team

CREATE South 2009 Is Coming April 25th, 2009

dave — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:57:48 +0000

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 CREATE) that we wanted to have in 2008 but ran out of time in the planning stage, as well as programming tracks on writing, creating community, and making media. It should be a fun day of exploring the intersection of technology and creativity.

Registration is open and the conference is free. You can also sign up for our low traffic announcement mailing list and get all the scoop about what is happening. It will be a good and productive time.

CREATE South Wrap Up

dave — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:32:19 +0000

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 and then getting out of the way. The magic trick of organizing this sort of thing is that all the programming is bait to get people to show up, but the people that show up are the real value. People met, talked, networked, learned, taught, ate bbq and chicken bog and generally had a good time.

First, let’s welcome the new bloggers minted at the conference. Jo and Roger have officially joined the blog world. This was part of what we wanted to happen, so it makes me happy every time either of them posts.

There is a Flickr photo pool for pictures from the day and you can also search on the tag “createsouth”.

Here’s some of the reactions around the blogosphere:

Dan Conover posts video of Ed Cone’s keynote presentation
GeekyCyberMom (Naomi) has video of Tee Morris’ presentation on podcasting
Vera posts her thoughts on the conference and her trip
Presenter Ivy tells her story of the weekend (Ivy is the one who called the conference “full of awesome and win”) and also approves of the chicken bog that Andre cooked
Presenter Heather gives her thoughts on the day
Lowcountry Blogs has a recap post
Musical guest Chris weighs in
Joan has a number of photos of the event
Keynote speaker Ed Cone writes several posts, about the food, about the conference itself, about his stay at the beach and his session
Tee Morris mentions the conference in his podcast
Paul notes the prevalence of Twitter at the conference
Judy had a good time and notes most of us are too pudgy

I’ll keep updating this as I find new posts. Thanks everyone for coming, participating, presenting and making it a wonderful time!

Create South Philosophy

dave — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:33:18 +0000

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 whole reason it is not “Podcamp Myrtle Beach” is that we want to bring in people beyond the core group of insiders who tend to show up to such things. The idea of having no set agenda before you get there just seems antithetical to getting in the people who most need to learn. This whole conference is our attempt to thread the needle between the boringness of most tech conferences, the energy and chaos of the *-Camps, the “audience is in charge” aspect of the Bloggercons, all with a minimum of dogma and maximum hands on at all points. Do you want to help thread that needle? You can, by showing up my friends.

Blog is Here

dave — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:34:37 +0000

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.