360Flex: Fond memories of past shows
Posted on | February 3, 2010 | 1 Comment
As a business person, you hope your product makes a difference. As an event organizer specifically, you hope that all the behind the scenes work and effort pay off in unexpected ways for your attendees. Thankfully, here at 360|Flex HQ, we get to see these results firsthand rather than just hoping.
Three people we have served have taken the time to write up a blog post on their first 360|Flex. These are attendees turned speakers, a path which seems common at our shows. This is because of the type of show we try to put on. John and I grew with each show, so it only made sense that attendees did as well. We didn’t think we could do a conference, but we did. Now, attendees don’t think they can become speakers but they do. 360|Flex has always been and will always be about growth. Growth, not just in Flex skills (because those do grow at the shows), but of also personal growth. Again though, you don’t have to believe us. You can go read these posts yourselves.
The three created this time around are:
Dan Florio, aka Polygeek
Doug McCune
Randy Troppmann
(If you have your own “First 360|Flex” story to tell, write it up and drop us a comment. We’ll add you to the list.)
The point of this post though is to show you one thing: The show is not about 360|Conferences at all really. It’s about the community that comes together to create a magic like no other. Again, don’t take our word for it. Read the accounts. Then, if you’ve never been or haven’t been back in awhile, head on over to the registration page and join us. Without you there, the magic just won’t be the same.
Tags: attendees > Community > speakers > stories
360Flex – Speaker Chat Kevin Schmidt
Posted on | February 2, 2010 | No Comments
Kevin has been a speaker at several 360|Flex events, he’s a great guy! Scary tall, and sometimes packing heat ;) but an awesome guy :)
Join us this wednesday for the next in our speaker chat series. Kevin will be talking about his session at 360|Flex San Jose, as well as anything else you’d like to hear about. He’s been doing Flex and CF before that for a long time now, and has struck out on his own as an Indie developer/consultant.
The chat starts at 12:00 MST on Feb 3rd. Don’t miss it. Bookmark this link.
If you haven’t gotten your room at the Marriott yet, you should get on that. Space is filling up, and the price for downtown San Jose is tough to beat.
And if for some reason you haven’t registered for 360|Flex yet, you should also get on that. Use this link to register. It’ll help Kevin in our contest for speakers to get an upgraded suite at the hotel!
Don’t miss 360|Flex, it’s everything you’ve heard, and more :)
Tags: 360flex > Community > Flash Platform > Reasons to Come > San Jose > Sessions > speakers
360flex – Why you should be staying at the Marriott
Posted on | February 2, 2010 | 3 Comments
If you haven’t heard, we have an official hotel. That’s right, boys and girls. There’s a spot where all the party people are going to staying under one roof. It’s the spot where you can stumble or crawl to your bed after an all-night rager of drinking, coding or perhaps a bit of both.
Why an official hotel that’s not connected to the conference center? For one, the conference center is on eBay’s HQ. They are trying to run a business, not make your beds or pick up your mess. Aside from that obvious reason, we want to keep having fun after we leave eBay. We’re still gonna party at Ebay after the last sessions; However, instead of taking the post functs to someone’s room, we want to take the party to downtown San Jose!
One thing that’s always nice at a conference is bumping into the “superstars”. While it happens a lot at the conference, it’s tough to pull someone aside to buy ‘em a drink to say thanks for contributing to the community. While we (the organizers) may not be the superstars you’re looking for, we will be at the hotel with all the speakers (who are the superstars). If you’re flying all the way to the show to meet and learn from these people, why would you bother staying anywhere else? Yes, it would be silly, especially after you read up on the deal we have for you!
We have a room block of Sunday night thru Tuesday night. We lined up an amazing rate of $99, for you all because we love you so. :) You don’t think we love you? How about this? In addition to the low rate of $99 for a Mariott (read: Not Sleazy 8 or Motel 6, or the Holiday Inn down the street, close but gross), we’ve also negotiated free wi-fi access for everyone’s guest rooms. That alone will save you some additional coin.
Assuming you’re arriving Saturday to take advantage of our awesome Sunday Hands-On training, and staying until Wednesday to make sure you don’t miss the final 4 sessions, which will rock and be worth your staying ’til the end we promise! You’re still only paying about $125 a night when you average the prices. Compared to other hotels in the area, that’s a damn good deal. Saturday night and Wednesday night are a bit beefier on the price because the majority of people just stay Sunday to Wednesday, so that’s what our block is for.
I’m sure you have all been to conferences where there’s the, “Which hotel are you at dialogue?” Then there’s time and effort spent on who will go where and when to meetup, etc. Make it easier on yourselves and sure to be newfound friends. Just stay at the Mariott so you’re all in the same place and will be easy to find each other. We’ll be there, the speakers will be there, so there’s no reason you shouldn’t be.
You can book online, easy peasy :) Just click here. Check out the Hotel and Travel tab for information on the hotel and getting around San Jose
While you’re booking your room, you have registered for the conference right? We have so much awesome lined up it’s hard to contain ourselves when talking about it :) Register now!
Tags: 360flex > Amazing Deals > Community > Countdown > Reasons to Come > San Jose > Schedule > Sessions
360Flex – Prep video from Yakov Fain!
Posted on | February 1, 2010 | 3 Comments
In case you missed it before, we’ve got a contest running to win some cool stuff, including CS4, and much more!
Just make a video about 360|Flex, we’ll let folks vote, and that’s it :)
Speaker Yakov Fain is the first to make a video but it’s not too late. If we get enough videos we’ll be playing them before the keynote!
Tags: 360flex > Community > Flash Platform > Raffle Prize > Reasons to Come > San Jose > speakers
360Flex Speaker Chats – Recorded sessions, enjoy
Posted on | February 1, 2010 | 6 Comments
If you’ve missed any of our speaker chats so far. Well you’re missing out.
BUT
We record them, so you can enjoy them later. I wouldn’t miss them live, but if you have to, check out the recordings below.
We forgot to hit record for Dan Florio’s talk, so if you missed that one, you missed it. your loss :)
Here’s what we’ve got so far
Don’t miss 360|Flex. I mean really, did those two awesome chats not do anything to convince you? We’ve got so much cool stuff planned, I really think we’re gonna blow the doors off it! Register now
We’ve got some great speakers lined up for the coming weeks.
Jeffry Houser on the 18th
Jeff Tapper on the 23rd
Tags: 360flex > Community > Flash Platform > Reasons to Come > San Jose > speakers
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