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Lunch and Learn – Where’s Waldo? for Your Business – Feb 17, 2012

Remember those word and the where’s Waldo searches as a child? Do you ever feel that way about resources for your business? Our goal at BarCamp Sarasota in 2012 is to help you Achieve the Incredible. Friday, February 17th, 2012 Lauren Kratsch, Business Development with the Manatee EDC will be joining us as we pull up websites, organizations and contact info for where your answers may be hiding.

RSVP at Meetup.com

Location:

Square One Burgers
5239 University Parkway
Sarasota, FL 34201


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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…