Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Rent an Expert

When I was in San Francisco last month, one of the best things that happened to me was meeting BrainJams‘ Kristie Wells and Chris Heuer. These are fiercely intelligent, open, unpretentious, generous people who are doing incredible things through the power of their own personal networks.

One such example of this is the Rent an Expert event which BrainJams is staging at CNET HQ tomorrow in San Francisco.

The format will follow the laws of open space as the ‘how to classes*’ offered will be determined by the participants. We ask that a small fee (average is $5) be given for each ‘how to class’ you sign up for, and all the money collected during the evening will be donated to a charity that will be decided by those in the room (majority rules folks).

Check out the Rent an Expert wiki if you can attend and want to share your expertise and/or learn from the expertise of others in attendance. If you go, tell them that I sent you - and thank me sooner or later, because you won’t regret the experience or getting to know Kristie and Chris.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Commission Junction University

I spent more than 12 hours at ValueClick‘s Commission Junction University event today, watching loads of presentations and talking about blogs, RSS, and social media for around 15 minutes. I need to process my notes and write properly about the event (not to mention sleep off the champagne I had during the last couple of hours of CJU...), but I want immediately to thank Alison Guise and Tina Judic for bringing me in to take part in CJU. Big thanks also to Susan Kingston for introducing me to Alison, Tina, Gary Goodman, Carl White, Steve Winterhalter, Ben Kopetti, and other enthusiastic, clever people from the ValueClick group of companies.

Pictures from CJU - which I will finish tagging and organising after some kip - are already on Flickr. More tomorrow…