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Join us for After Hours – Feb 2, 2012

Our monthly after hours meetup will be held on Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 5:30pm at Shakespeare’s English Pub in Sarasota (3550 S Osprey Ave, Sarasota, FL – map). Want the opportunity meet and hang out with other members of our Sarasota Tech community? No agendas. Just good people, good beer, good fun! Please see the event’s meetup page for more information or to RSVP (not required).

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David Johnson on BarCamp Spring 2011

By David G. Johnson

I’m writing this from inside an Entrepreneurial Roundtable session being facilitated by locally-based technologist Stan Schultes. The ideas being generated within this “open source” group of people are absolutely stellar. There are folks in the room who have been there, done it, and are looking for an opportunity to share back and forth.

This is just one example of the benefits of having an event like BarCamp Sarasota. This year’s event is being held this weekend at GWIZ, which turns out to be a perfect venue because of their various small rooms that seem ideally suited for sessions like those you’ll find at a BarCamp event. …

Read more at EpiphanyDigest…

Camp Out

By: Mark Gordon | Deputy Managing Editor

A diverse contingent of entrepreneurs and small business owners in Sarasota and Bradenton has been gathering regularly to talk shop, life and being better at both.

But this isn’t the standard chamber power networking lunch event. It’s called BarCamp, though it’s only occasionally held at a bar, and it isn’t a camp. The oddly named group is instead based on the unconference concept — a session where there’s no set speakers and no agenda.

Read more at the Gulf Coast Business Review…

Trading expertise at a tech festival

By CHRIS HAWES Correspondent
Published: Sunday, October 10, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.

SARASOTA – In one room, former Yahoo employee Ryan Teixeira counseled his audience on the importance of “getting out of their bedrooms” and mingling face-to-face with people.

In another room, 13-year-old “R.A. Spyder” (her pen name) provided a professional-level tutorial on how to use print-on-demand and other technological advances to tell your own story.

Read more at HeraldTribune.com…