Ottawa BarCamp 4 was my first time attending the “open source” conference and let me say, it was great being around such a large group of uber-geeks. I swear, I’ve never seen so many Moleskine notebooks in one place.
That said, I learned some scary stuff from the seminars.
Alec Saunders demonstrated how Facebook has made large market research firms obsolete. Simply put, you get more data faster and cheaper using Facebook polls. Fortunately I have a separate income from freelance writing and my resume is up to date.
Meanwhile Nathan Rudyk from market2world’s PR seminar showed some fairly simple steps to getting mass media coverage for a product. Mildly frightening, yet useful.
Also, writing a column about blogging, I spend a lot of time reading blogs and interacting with the writers via e-mail, so it was nice to be able to put some faces to the text.
From what I could tell, a good time was had by all, with many asking when the next one was going to be.
Oh, and one last thing. The BitHeads HQ has to be one of the coolest offices I’ve ever seen.
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