GeekDinner

GeekDinner#3 - Announced

Details for GeekDinner#3:

I am very much looking forward to this evening as we have a guest speaker from Videojug.com

Roland Quesnel is the content producer in Spain, for this very impressive startup based in the UK.

Roland will talk for 30mins about Videojug and then answer 15 mins of questions.

GeekDinner#3
Date: 29th August,
Time: 8.00pm,
Venue: Terra Sana.
Speaker: Roland Quesnel, from VideoJug.com

Look forward to seeing you all there - its going to be an interesting evening.

Jonathon.

Grow your E-Zine List

Deniese Wakeman points us to a doc she wrote about how to grow your e-zine list.

Click here to read

You have to follow a link in her blog and sign up to her site (its a good method for her to harvest emails) but then you can download her list.

I had a look and its full of good questions and answers about building lists...

Who are the most influential authorities on “blog marketing”?

For those interested in blog marketing, Flemming Madsen of Onalytica publishes an article about who are the most influential authorities in this space.

The list provided shows a number of unknow influencers in this area...

Read the report here

GeekDinner#2 - Enjoyed by all

A fun, interesting and stimulating evening was enyojed by all at Terra Sana.

Chris Chaplow and Mike Cartwright (Andalucia.com) joined, myself, Mike Drury (Gomarbella.com) and Mark Russell (Marbella.to).

We talked again about generating income from portals (a hot topic) and banner advertising (Mike Cartwright's speciality), the future of technology - Mark had some pretty far reaching ideas about Nano technology. Blog solutions, the Joomla content management system and newsletter marketing were also discussed.

The third GeekDinner will be held at the end of August - date to be arranged.

(From left to right, Jonathon Drury, Mike Drury, Mark Russell, Chris Chaplow, Mike Cartwright)

Geek article - New Statesman

Here is another article about Geeks and their entrepreneurial flair in the New Statesman.

I guess the saying should be changed to:

Blessed are the GEEK: for they shall inherit the earth.
Matthew 5:5

Embrace your Inner Geek

Click here to read this article from Steve Rubel about what it means to be a Geek.

8 ideas that will revolutionize the 21st century (and why blogging isn't one of them)

Ben Hammersly spoke about the internet last year at Les Blogs 2.0.

Watch his stimulating session here

Interesting Google Bug

Seth Godin points us to these search results: (will probably be fixed by the time you get there, so here's a screen shot). Google appears to be trying to show me what many people who searched for something also searched for (scroll down the picture)... but it's not quite right yet.

GeekDinner#2

Its coming up to GeekDinner#2.

Venue: Terra Sana, Nueva Andalucia,
Time: 8pm
Date: 25th July 2006

Email me if you have any topics you would like to speak about: jon[@]wordsandpix.com

Open Source Content Management Application

A friend told me about Joomla (used to be Mambo) an open source content management application -  which came from Google's Summer of Code.

Joomla has an online magazine application too - banner management, contributor upload and much much much more.

For all those e-zines out there this will knock your socks off!