The Triangle Drupal Meetup Group and Coalmarch Productions® are hosting a meetup on Thursday March 12 to report on experiences and events from DrupalCon 2009 (http://dc2009.drupalcon.org). The meetup is scheduled to begin at 6:30 pm in the Coalmarch offices, 125 Edinburgh South, Suite 200, Cary, NC 27511.

DrupalCon is the official Drupal “unconference” that attracts the most talented open source developers and innovative Web shops in the world and brings them together to share knowledge, make d… Continue

I'm one of the co-organizers of the Buffalo Tweetup. We've been meeting for several months, and now we're trying to connect up a network of other Tweetup groups around the world. See the list under "Tweetup Network" on the Buffalo Tweetup site, and feel free to copy it here if you like.

How cool would it be to be able to find a Tweetup group anywhere you travel?

Welcome to our cocktail party! What's your drink of choice?

Everyone's trying to figure out how to use Social Media for their own professional and personal use.

Social media is a Cocktail Party. That as marketers we have to see it as any in-person networking event. When you walk into the room, you don't walk up to the first person you see and start pitching your idea. That's bad networking and bad etiquette.… Continue

Guy Kawasaki, thanks to Network Solutions visited Charlotte this evening to talk about Small Business/Entrepreneurship.

In his talk, Guy discussed the Art of Innovative Solutions - meaning how to start a business that is innovative. I like how Guy started out by saying jokingly - define a niche that’s small enough and you will dominate it. While he was referring to him being the best Hawaiian, 53 year old hockey player that lived in Northern California, the message seemed to have some continuit… Continue

Everyone's business is different. Everyone's interests are different. It's like a giant Venn diagram - some places you and I will be polar opposites and some places we might overlap. Polarization is ok. (This is something I learned from Guy Kawasaki.) You have to look at the product and decide what has value for your needs and price point.

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