This is a page to organize our thoughts on the upcoming Doylestown, PA Social Business Unconference, BarCampDoylestown  - Success...it happened.  See:BarCamp Doylestown 9-20-10 Social Web Coverage

 

Debrief and planning meeting happened 9/30

Attending were Chuck, Neal and Jim.  Barry P slept through his alarm.

Notes below:

• We debriefed and discussed what went well and what could go better next time
• Well: energy, feedback, sessions, buzz, networking, education, doylestown location.... read it on twitter and on the BarCamp Doylestown 9-20-10 Social Web Coverage page
• better next time:  Noise in venue, table layout, on site / day of meeting logistics fell on 1 person, ...more ideas?
• We concluded we do want to do another, but need to give it some time.  We will look for a date in 2011 during the 1st half of the year
• there was a discussion about the value is making it only 1 or 2x per year to maintain it's "freshness"
• there was also a discussion about many who wanted to attend who could not, and many who found out too late
• We felt we could do another event maybe in January or Maybe in March/April (before summer)
• We liked the September timeframe for this event and thought of doing another then (sept 2011)
• We also discussed other types of events we could organize such as TEDx, Ignite, Limited invitation Barcamp (50 attendees, invitation only, small entrance fee rather than sponsor supported)
• We discussed the possibility of other venues with better acoustics or fewer simultaneous sessions in main room

 

Conclusions:

• It was a great event and met the various goals of the organizers
• It should be repeated, but not too soon
• We like the venue in Doylestown, but would like to make improvements if we use it again
• We will separately investigate other Doylestown based event formats (but won't brand them Barcamp Doylestown)
• We will keep the network / community alive
• Barry P will be ridiculed  for not being able to make the "new noon" when the sun is not shining
• We love meeting at Starbucks

 

Please add more comments, ideas, suggestions if you want.

Jim

 

 

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Final Planning call 7am Sept 20 17 - details below in "announcements"

 

 

CALL FOR PRESENTERS!

Now that we have a critical mass of attendees, we need to begin gathering the candidates for program content.  We have created a new page for gathering this information.  Follow the link below.

Please go to this page to propose agenda items

barcamp18901 920 topics 

 

New page for our Sept 7 Planning Meeting

97 planning meeting barcamp18901  

 

It started with a simple tweet and the follow ups:

 

jimworth

Thinking we should plan a Doylestown social business "bar camp" unconf. Any ideas? @barrypeters @bsdalton @NealWiser @ChuckHall @markmag

 

ChuckHall

@jimworth @barrypeters @bsdalton @NealWiser @markmag I have been wondering about that, too. Happy to explore with everyone.

 

bsdalton

@jimworth @barrypeters @NealWiser @ChuckHall @markmag I'm in. Potential disc topics?: real risk exposure to AEs in sm engagement..

 

markmag

RT @jimworth: @barrypeters @bsdalton @NealWiser @ChuckHall I am in we need a location and a date.

 

barrypeters

  @jimworth @nealwiser @ChuckHall @bsdalton I am in once my iPad quest is complete. NEED wifi16!

 

NealWiser

@jimworth Sounds great! I'll check out the link.

 

So, let's use this space to gather our ideas.  Please edit and improve upon this "strawman".  Login required (but free)

 

Announcements:

1.     We will have a final planning meeting 7am telecon Monday 9/20 Let's review assignments from notes at bottom of this page:  97 planning meeting barcamp18901

     so far Jim W, Barry P, Barry D, Neal W, Manny are "in".  Waiting on the rest.

2.     As of 9/19, 169 tickets "sold", 3 on waitlist.

 

 

Location:  Doylestown, PA (or close surrounding area)

 

Venue:  Donated Office or Bar with private space

Total Minimum Attendees Desired 15

We could handle: 60-200, Aiming now for 60-80 160

 

Option 1:  Timmons  and Company, 3795 Buckingham Pike (Rt, 202), Doylestown could support up to 50 people (Parking might be limited to 25 cars)

Offered for free by Rich Timmons for Monday Evening September 20 (slightly out of town, limited parking, nice space, open setting)

Option 2: Moose Lodge, 127 E State St, Doylestown, PA  18901  (on street parking, in town, larger space, accommodates up to 200)

 

 

How to Promote - you did a great job, no more active promoting necessary 

     Emerging Social Business is the Theme 

     Promote it as "Bring your Thought Leader"

     Other innovative promotions seen on twitter: "Barcamp in the burbs",  "Ladies and Gents, the bar is now open", "Sharpen you skills...", "Greased 'ideation'",

     Tweet from @BCDoylestown  Email from BCDoylestown@gmail.com  both have the same password discussed 7-22

     Email to  mailing lists we belong to (SIM, GPSEG, others?),

     Announce in Linked In Groups we belong to,

     Send Linked In message to our local Linked In connections.

     Indicate plans to attend this LinkedIn Event in personal LinkedIn Events 

 

Invitees:  Organizers above plus (crossed out ones have registered as of 8/4)

     Mitch Lapides http://twitter.com/mitchlapides

     Eric Ziegler http://twitter.com/ericzigus

     Manny Rechani http://twitter.com/MannyRechani

     Dale Denham http://twitter.com/daledenham

     Roger Lam  http://twitter.com/innovadores

     Cari Sultanik http://twitter.com/cariofthevalley 

     Rich Timmons http://twitter.com/timmonsandco

     Gracie G. http://twitter.com/girlmeetshealth - invited by JW

     Angela Giovine/TIna Paparone http://twitter.com/buckshappening

     Mike Rubillo http://twitter.com/mrubillo

     Mike Maney http://twitter.com/the_spinmd 

     Greg Lowe http://twitter.com/greg2dot0

     Ted Hopton http://twitter.com/ted_hopton

     John MacDaniel (Telerx)  http://twitter.com/JohnMacD1

     Frank Eliason (aka @comcastcares) http://twitter.com/FrankEliason/ 

     Rick Toone http://twitter.com/ricktoone/ 

     http://twitter.com/MacOutfitters

     Jeff Circuit http://twitter.com/jeffcircuit

     Karla Porter http://twitter.com/karla_porter

 

    add more please (you should know them to put them on the list)

 

Topic: Emerging Social Business

Potential Sub Topics:   * indicates a "like", feel free to add you *'s so the really like's get like this *****  Vote for 3, please

Add your initials at the end so we know if you've voted.

1. **Where can a business get value? BD CS
2. **** Exploring best practices in Social CRM, BP BD
3. Exploring best practices in Enterprise 2.0 BP
4. **** Emerging inexpensive or free technologies / offerings MR. JW
5. Industry specific opportunities (Big Pharma, Small businesses, others?)
6. *******Selling it / adoption ideas / making it viral - MR (Manny) AG (Angela Giovine) TH CS
7. ** Personal (consumer) productivity tools / processes - JW AG
8. Pharma: Real risk of exposure to AEs (Adverse Event notifications) in Social Media Engagements
9. * The Match Game: connecting the mobile patient (consumer) with the mobile HCP
10. ** Location Based Services (best practices and how can businesses better leverage them) JW
11. ******* What's the plan? You can't achieve your goals without strategy. You cant develop a strategy if you don't know your goals. MR AG BD TH CS
12. *E2 Metrics: What matters? TH 
13. Uniting the Intergenerational Workforce with a Social Business Perspective
14. Foursquare: A Simple Tool to Social-ize Small Business
15. Engaging Employees and Clients in Your Marketing Mission through Social Business Strategies 

 

Questions:

1) What level will this event be; Introductory? Moderate? Will help us focus our offerings (NW)

 

Time slot Monday or Thursday Evening in September

       September 20 6pm-9:00pm - Confirmed Moose Lodge, 127 E. State St. Doylestown

 

Concurrent sessions:  3 assuming 45 participants, Three 45 minute sessions

Agenda:   30 minutes arrivals, networking, and organizing

               40 minutes - Session 1

                5-10 minute break

               40 minutes - Session 2

               5-10 minute break

               40 minutes - Session 3

               15 minutes - closing

 

Cost Free / Donation / Bring refreshments / Use a donated office / get participants and sponsors to donate supplies

Promoted: Twitter / Email / Facebook / Blogs / separate identity from organizers BarCampDoylestown

Expertise level:  Mix of experienced / interested / uninformed but motivated

We all should come away learning something

 

Why:  Build the network locally, build relationships, get wiser, have fun

 

How would we run it?  Check this out:  http://barcamp.pbworks.com/

 

Ideas from 7-19 lunch with @markmag and @jimworth - then edited 7/22

     1. Set up a separate twitter account BCDoylestown - Done by JW 7/20 http://twitter.com/bcdoylestown

     2.  http://BarCampDoylestown.wordpress.com (Barry will abandon this and go with Posterous) done BP 7/22

     3. Set up a Domain Name (Barry or Chuck)  http://BarCampDoylestown.com done BP 7/22

     4. Set up an email account - Done by JW 7/19 BCDoylestown@gmail.com

     5. create a logo based on the barcamp logo - Jim done JW 7/25

     6. register with http://barcamp.org done by JW 7/23 see: http://barcamp.org/FrontPage under Upcoming Camps, entries both in USA and PA

     7. Set up Ticket system selling "free" tickets using TicketLeap or Eventbrite.  Eventbrite will comp us since it is a barcamp - Jim

     Look to these for ideas how to organize:  http://urbanfarmcamp.org and http://trendcamp.org both from @markmag

     Look at the trendcamp video to get some ideas of what it looked like

     Expect about 50% of those registered to show, Jim and Chuck are thinking more like 70%, what do you think Mark Mag?

     Consider printing stickers, tshirts, etc (@gloriabell has a good contact there and has used them for prior barcamps in the philly area) what's happening here?

 

Decisions/Assignments from 7-22 breakfast (cross out when completed)

In attendance was: @chuckhall, @barrypeters, @nealwiser, @jimworth, @the_spinmd  

 

1. September 20, Moose Lodge 6 to 845 PM (but can stay longer) - Chuck to secure sponsorships to pay for space $200
2. blog will be posterous - Barry or Chuck to buy BarCampDoylestown.com for it done BP 7/22 $24.99 for a year

          JW fixed the eventbrite link 7-23 

• note www.posterize.us is everything you wanted to know about Posterouse  - 
• Facebook Page - Barry http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Bar-Camp-Doylestown/128262357216682?ref=ts done BP 7/22
• BarCamp Logo - Jim
• Stickers - Mike
• Nametags - Mike
• "Bring your thought leader" - each of us - promote
• Eventbrite - arrange for free tickets, cap at 160 for now  - JW http://BarCampDoylestown.eventbrite.com/ 
• built www.bit.ly/BCDoylestown as short URL for this page and will x-ref on Twiiter and FB not planned but done BP 7/22

 

Decisions / Assignments from the 8/12 breakfast meeting.  Cross out when complete

In attendance was: Barry D, Mark M. Barry P, Jim, Chuck, Cari, Manny, Nicky (and Christie) Mike R, Neal on skype 

We covered Promotion, Logistics, Tickets, Content  

 

     1. Nicky looking into food - see barcamp email account for her answer, but she has secured Richelle Brisbon for appetizer / finger food type stuff / desserts

     2. Jim to post the attendee list - done

     3. Barry to post a new entry about the organizers - done 8/16

     4  Sponsor page to be posted - done - 2 sponsors up  (local job guide is 2nd sponsor, Personal Touch will be a 3rd sponsor)

     5. We need to secure A/V screens and equipment for some (1 or 2), not all of the breakout spaces- Chuck?

     6. We decided to have 4 simultaneous sessions rather than 3 - done (boardroom holds about 30)

     7. Schedule will change to allow breaks between sessions, extended to 9pm, site changed - done

     8. Who's coming page and been created and is being updated - google docs now - Jim  Is this viewable without sign in?

     9. we need to have the space ready at 5:30 for those coming early

     10. Gloria / Mark Mag will man (woman) the board and manage the signup session - confirm

     11. Chuck will sell drink tickets to be used for facility bar - does he have them?

     12. Nicky will look into food - needs a sponsor to fund - status?

     13. Who will do capturing / recording / blogging? - Barry D will be media coordinator

     14. for each session, we should ask for a note taker

     15. we need a sign that says you are in a public place and photos or recordings may be made - who?

     16. Should we have any giveaways?

     17. Promotion - OK to promote to our networks (linked in, mailing lists - SIM NJ or GPSEG - Jim W.)

     18. We should improve promotion with appropriate buzzwords and education goals for the attendees - all

     19. Add profile questions to eventbrite (take them from Trendcamp example) - Jim Done 8/13

     20. Promotion - make it viral, encourage attendees to promote - email current attendees with an update (from eventbrite) - Done by JW 8/29 JW will send update to late registrants

     21. Promotion - Look into promoting through the Intelligencer - Chuck

     22. Consider Ustream for next meeting - consider a conf call for next meeting - F2F on 9/2

     23. We need to be creating a strawman for topics and leaders based on what we know and questions coming from registrations - ongoing - wiki page created too

     24. eventbrite has some nice reports.  Log in, Manage, Event reports, Attendee summary to see the full list of attendees and answers to questions.  You can export to excel too

     25. set up a wiki page for "call for presenters" - Done - JW

We will meet again a few weeks before the event (9/7)

 

Potential Topics:

Business strategy
Small business
Location based services
Twitter
Collaboration and communities

Potential Sessions and leaders

Barry/Barry customer of the future in social CRM
Cari step by step on strategy building - road
Cari social media evangelism
Neal developing a strategy for social media
Chuck engaging employees and clients in your marketing mission
Mark - emerging electronic payments in social media space
Jim e20 learnings in communities and collaboration
Jim social web- coming to grips with social media
Ryan Taft foursquare and geo location
How to be a mayor ? Ryan

Building a Winning Business Culture (ala Zappos) using Social Knowledge Platforms and Adoption - Manny Rechani

 

Other Topics without a leader

Twitter Facebook how to get up to speed
So you want to do a barcamp
Social, mobile, video,
Reliability of the data in social networks

 

 

OK, now this is a Wiki, so please improve this emerging "strawman".  Don't worry, any change can be rolled back.

 

Thanks! 

Jim

(:^D

 

A few comments from Manny (moved from frontpage)

I think this a great idea!  The focus on E2.0 would be something I'd like to engage in (note sharing, successes, adoption).  I was speaking with Chuck Hall last week and he called it a SmartGuy Roundtable...or was it a SmartAss Rountable?  Monday evening works better for me than a Thursday.  Free is kewl too.  Thank you for starting this!  Please let me know what I can do to help out.

Manny

 

Local Business Tie Ins 

 

Where practical, it would be helpful to engage local businesses as tie-ins and sponsors. For example, Bill Norcross, owner of SpeediPrintr in Doylestown, is interested in being an inkind services sponsor. They have high quality digital printing capabilities and can print just about anything we can imagine. We should approach them on nametags, signs, etc., for the event. Mike, feel free to reach out to Bill at 215-348-1100 on nametags. (Or I (Chuck) can do if you'd like.) I am also going to start soliciting additional sponsors. I am sponsoring the venue.  Are we OK offering sponsors the ability to put their logos on our site as event sponsors?

I am fine with logos for help - BP 8/1

 

I'd like to suggest that we consider having 4 concurrent sessions (One in Board Room and 3 in Main Room). Categories could be something like Small Business, Innovative Technology, Strategy/Management, and Wild Card. -- CH

 

This is a great idea. Have signed up & would love to help. @annekreitzberg