Archives for September, 2009

Thanks everyone for all the session and facilitator ideas!


We’ve got so much great stuff submitted, UnSummit3 is going to be truly awesome! The challenge will be squeezing everything into the schedule. We’ll be working over the next few days to make sense of it all.
First, we’ll be contacting everyone who signed up to facilitate soon to get confirmations and brief session descriptions. Then [...]

Only two more days to become a facilitator


Wednesday at 5pm is the deadline for signing up to be a facilitator for UnSummit3.  Then we’ll begin to assemble the schedule and make room for all the great sessions that have been submitted.
There is still time if you haven’t signed up to facilitate or want to chime in on the ideas on the table. [...]

Inglourious Bastards


Hey we’re famous! UnSummit was mentioned in a MinnPost piece on the MIMA Summit today:
In fact, the Summit has been so successful that it’s spawned a bastard child, the UnSummit. Created by marketing strategist Don Ball, the UnSummit promises “no pre-set agenda. No experts. Full participation. Full dissemination. And free admission. All the things that [...]

We have a theme, now we need facilitators – sign up!


The theme of UnSummit3 is What’s next?
You are a do-er in your organization or business. You likely wear many hats — interactive marketing, content contribution, graphic design, communication, usability, programming. You live and breathe new media or you are ready to inhale. How do you roll up your sleeves and dig in to a new [...]

Got toolz?


One of the sessions I’ve proposed for the next UnSummit is called “Cheap tools and tawdry tricks for consultants, freelancers and accidental entrepreneurs.”
The idea for the session stems from two rather obvious trends:

Everyone’s a startup
Thanks to the downturn, the streets are littered with talented but unemployed professionals. Some are using the occasion to go [...]

We need your ideas for UnSummit3


We’re an unconference, that means the content it up to you. What do you want to talk about at UnSummit3? What topics are you interested in learning more about? Please share as many ideas as you like.
Update 9/15: Thanks for the ideas everyone! Now we’re looking for sessions facilitators. Sign up here.

Sponsors wanted


We’re still looking for a few sponsors to cover the costs of morning coffee and lunch for unSummit3 on October 10. We’d love to talk to any individual or organization interested in becoming a sponsor at the $250 or $500 level.
We’ll heap on the love both online and at the event. It’s a great opportunity [...]