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Eoin is a lovely man (and other Barcamp gossip)

April 21st, 2007 · 6 Comments · Blogging, irishelection2007, Social Media

That’s what I learnt at Barcamp in Dublin today. Even if Eoin wasn’t a great speaker and expert on the law I’d still say he is a lovely man because if I said he wasn’t and it was a lie then I would be in trouble.

See – I now know a bit more about defamation, contempt, copyright, threats, hate speech, etc. Thanks Eoin for a great presentation on the law and blogging.

Bar Camp was great, I got to meet Karlin who I had not seen in 12 years! (yes I think it really is that long!) Someone has offered to make my blog a bit prettier by the mere installation of a template (oh the shame and even worse Eoghan seems to be good at what he does for a living!) Darren Barefoot of Capulet Communications did a talk on social media for corporates and for a few others who didn’t know their stuff from adam (or eve). There was a plenary panel which turned out to be all about blogging and social media and was full of discussions that I knew something about given my reading of other tech and social media blogs.

I made a pitch for the The Day of the Count – a major event (and reason for a pint) coming to the blogosphere near you… :-) If anyone is interested in knowing more or following up on it leave a comment or email me! I’ll be announcing more soon about the date (once a man who used to wear an anorak and now has two grand kids with the hippest (daftest) names around makes his mind up!)

Well done and thanks to the organisers on the event and the participants for doing their barcampy type thing.

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6 Comments so far

  • lauranen // Apr 22, 2007 at 01:09

    I knew I should’ve gone! Sounds great, looking forward to reading all about it in the blogosphere over the next few days. And yes, Day of the Count? I’m listening!

  • politicalthicko // Apr 22, 2007 at 23:38

    The day of the count?

    Sounds good.

    Although surely, given the nature of our politicians it should be called “a load of counts”

  • eoin // Apr 23, 2007 at 09:37

    Hi Suzy,

    Thanks for the link; great to run into you on Saturday; and Count me in on the Day! And you didn’t need to say nice things about Saturday’s presentation ; I’m not going to sue :-) More seriously, though, I’m glad you enjoyed it. The slides are now up here (after a heroic running battle all day yesterday between me on the one side, and my slides, photo, wordpress upload feature, and fetch on the other, which they won). Have a look; and feel free to ask follow-up questions here or in the comments to the post on cearta.

    Eoin

  • suzybie // Apr 23, 2007 at 10:06

    Thanks Eoin, It was great to meet you too! And I’m glad you are not alone in having running battles yesterday with technology, although mine were not anyway near as sophisticated as yours! I’m sure there will be a follow up question sooner rather than later!

  • Jennifer Farley // Apr 23, 2007 at 10:54

    Hi Suzy

    It was nice to meet you at Barcamp (sandwiches on the sofa) and thanks for giving me some tips.

    all the best for now,

    Jennifer

  • cearta.ie » Blog Archive » I remember this one time, at BarCamp // Apr 24, 2007 at 23:06

    [...] I remember this one time, at BarCamp, I went to the Plenary because there was nothing else on at the time. That’s Suzy, Joe, Tom, Sean and Darren; Karlin’s just out of shot – sorry, Karlin; blame the photographer :-) ). After Suzy’s call to election arms (count me in), the tone was set by the very first Q&A: Q: Joe: How to make money from social media, Tom? A: Tom: I make money telling companies how to make money from it. [laughter all around] … [...]

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