October is a busy month for for us at Envoca. We have been pretty excited about the official public launch of Google Wave and have been having fun with our new accounts. Aside from having plans to launch a half dozen websites and eat a lot of turkey this month, we will also be attending several regional tech events alongside other Portland web design firms. These events are always helpful for keeping us ahead of the curve on the latest trends and tools that people are using in the web marketing sphere.
Drupal Camp PDX
Drupal Camp PDX 2009 is being held October 9-11 at NedSpace Old Town, right above Backspace at NW 5th & Davis in Old Town Portland. The Conference planners state that, “DrupalCamp PDX is a unconference…developed entirely by the camp participants – you and your fellow Drupalers.”
For those who are unfamiliar with Drupal, it is a Content Management System (CMS) that allows owners of a website to add pages and make changes to websites that have been created by professional web developers. We have found that our clients have been wanting this more and more in recent years and will soon be adding Drupal as an additional CMS option alongside Wordpress and osCommerce for our clients.
IT Professional and Developer Technical Briefing Portland
This event will be the official Portland developers launch event for Windows 7 and will be held on October 14th. The IT Professional and Developer Technical Briefing Portland will be a chance for us to learn some some the new and interesting things that are going on with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. On top of that, it will be a great chance to meet fellow Portland area web developers and hear how they are building their web applications on the Microsoft stack.
Bend WebCAM
The Bend WebCAM (Web + Creative And Marketing) Conference will be held October 15th-16th and will most likely be Oregon’s best web marketing event this year. There are several speakers attending that I have heard before and a handful of others that are very prominent in the web marketing industry. Among them will be online marketing heavyweights Chris Winfield, David Snyder, Jim Riswold and Rhea Drysdale. This is by far the highest quality of speakers that you will find in one place on the subject of online marketing speaking in the pacific northwest. They are among the most successful and prominent web marketers worldwide and they are presenting in Bend of all places.
Startup Weekend Corvallis
After attending Startup Weekend Redmond at the Microsoft Campus this last August, I am now officially hooked on the concept of having to start a company in under 72 hours. Startup Weekend Corvallis is one of a series of competitions where developers, designers, and marketers all compete to create a successful startup over the course of a weekend. This particular event will be held in Corvallis October 23-25.
Edit: This event has been postponed to December 4-6th
The idea is that many successful startups (at least in the web/software industry) are created very quickly by relentless individuals that despise sleep and thrive on caffeine. What better way to launch a company (or at least practice) than to do so with a group of complete strangers, over a short weekend, while competing for thousands of dollars in prize money and/or venture capital? I can honestly say that I learned more about business models, teamwork, coding, and development in one day the last startup weekend than in any other given week of my life.
If you are attending one of the events above or would like to know more about what we are up to, send us an email and we will be happy to talk about it with you further.
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