BarCamp Birmingham was a huge success. I believe there were close to 150 people who attended. What is BarCamp you ask? BarCamp is a camp or meet for people to come together and share ideas. The BarCamp was held at the Innovation Depot downtown Birmingham.The experience was unlike most conferences I have been to. The term unconference was used which was a good description. Most everyone (campers) began to show up around 9 am and we had to be out by 4 pm. The idea is to have presenters provide a topic and topics were placed on a board. You could attend whatever session you were interested in. There were 3 main conference rooms and a couple break out rooms for smaller conversations.
Daniel Walters of Social Media Birmingham presented on podcasting and was a good basic course. Dave Barger of Luna Web presented Twitter and Social Media sessions and was extremely versed and knowledgeable. One of my favorites which didn't come as a surprise was Wade Kwon who presented on Blogging your way to Vegas for Free. Harris Reynolds was also very interesting with his topic on Launching a Start Up in One Week. Tammy Hart of Tammy Hart Designs is very well known in the technology community as the queen of Word Press and presented on that topic. The last session I attended was Access Capital Now by Dominick Wallace which was cut short due to time constraints.This is a brief summary of what went on. The day was packed. The sponsors this year were extremely generous and we were all very thankful. The event was free and provided lunch and t-shirts. If you would like to know more about BarCampBham, visit the website at http://barcampbirmingham.org/.
More Websites for BarCamp:
BarCamp: http://barcamp.org/
BarCamp Mobile: http://barcampmobile.org/
BarCamp Chattanooga: http://barcampchatt.com/
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