Email is still the number one tool for managing events and communicating with attendees, speakers, and exhibitors. Social network is definitely the future of the event communication, but until then email rules.
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Sending out call for papers, speaker, exhibitor, attendee invitations and other emails around a conference can require a well oiled email infrastructure to make sure emails get into the inbox.
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I was reminded today that nothing is permanent in the cloud. I accidentally terminated my primary database instance running on Amazon EC2. 319 databases, 100 GB of data running on SQL Server 2008.
I was removing 2 decommissioned server instances, I selected both of them and clicked terminate. About 60 seconds later I started getting alerts that my web sites are down. I refreshed my Amazon Console and saw that my primary database instance was terminating.
5 hours later I have e...
I was just talking with Google I/O events team about keeping events sessions up to date on the conference and event sessions page. Sessions change rapidly and updates are needed by multiple teams in real-time.
Web-site(s), support personnel, marketing, etc all need updated information. There are multiple digital and human sources that need the updates.
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I am looking around my Google Account Ecosystem and playing. Since the addition of Google Buzz I spend more time looking at my profile page.
My buzzs' come up more in searches so I tend to stumble on my kinlane-productions2ore.
I have used iGoogle as my home page since...I can't remember. Its been yea...
I've been paying attention to the Google Cloud Print project at Google Code. With Google Cloud Print you can:
Register any printer to be accessible via the Internet for printing by authorized users
Allow authorized users to print to this device with multiple devices (desktop, laptop, mobile phone)
Seem like as a business owner I would be able to temporarily open up my printer for a ...
Everyone is talking about cloud computing these days in the tech industry. I just stopped doing some more work on a comprehensive list of cloud computing service providers.
One of the key components of cloud computing is scalable, pay for what you use computing utilities.
When are we going...
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Developed in the open with full transparency
Open process for anyone to participate freely
Everyone is free to implement
Decisions are made based on technical merit
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I was re-reading a blog post I had starred called The Situationally Aware Business. Great post about a companies awareness of their brand, customers and world around them in real-time.
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I have been in the Amazon Console all night scaling down infrastructure after 3 months of events and conferences. This year our Amazon spend was double during the event season. Last year I pushed what my budget would allow to achieve better performance, it paid off. This year I got the thumbs up to push eve...
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I was reviewing the Google Sites API today. I have a Google Site / Wiki that I was maintaining last year about cloud computing. Like other side projects of mine that don't directly have funding it fell to the wayside, however I've been still bookmarking and gathering relevant data that still applies to this
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Having fun playing with Google Sites API today. Audrey is setting up Wikis for different research areas to support her new Hack Education site. I am reviving my cloud computing research wiki. I am looking for new ways to keep sections of the wiki alive programatically. A couple ways I've brainstormed:
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Data is the center of my world. I enjoy that there are finally great places on the Internet get open large data sets such as Factual and Google Fusion Tables. However much of the data I want for different purposes is not neatly organized into an easily accessible data set or available on the Internet.
XAuth is a standard that is going to help make the social web smarter and more relevant. The goal of XAuth is to create a more relevant social experience across the web, and it is truly exciting that all of our partners are united on this front.
It includes a light-weight XAuth JavaScript library that will allow service providers like Google, Microsoft, MySpace, Yahoo! to extend authe...
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I have been answering a lot of questions on LinkedIn and Quora lately about where the best place to store data in the clouds. There are a lot of answers to this question.
Cloud storage comes in many shapes, sizes, and prices. Business class, personal usage, storage APIs and much more.
I store my:
Amazon EC2 machine images in
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I'm launching a new Amazon EC2 instance. Its running Windows + PHP + MySQL. Its a preset up instance AMI I have for harvesting data.
Its setup with necessary harvest scripts with all my libraries setup just for pulling RSS, XML, and scraping HTML pages.
I'm doing some research about how to grow my Goog...
I was just test driving the Free Screenshot Sharing Application called SPGrab. I like the idea of seamless sharing after you take a screenshot. They allow you to automatically upload to FTP location of your choice. Putting it in a ftp location you potentially have the ability to automatically share it.
The future is cloudy and accessed through mobile platforms according to the Future of the Internet, Cloud Computing report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
I agree with most of the findings there, I think it will roll out a l...
I recently removed a couple of aggregated tech news sources from my Google Reader. There are a few sources that I think are going beyond what I find valuable in my tech business world.
I am relying on my Google Network of friends to refer common stories from major tech news sources to me. I often foun...
With the amount of data being made available every day, visualizing tools are increasingly important.
The average user needs to see data rolled up in a way that is attractive and easy to understand.
I'm going to be keeping my eye out for easy to use tools that help us data scientist transform data into mean...
Blog - A blog to give the event a voice.
RSS Feed - An RSS feed from the event blog or other event elements.
Login / Connect - Login tools allowing users to user their existing social network profiles to register for event.
OpenID - The standard for user login credentials.
Facebook - Login / Registration using F...
I was helping someone choose a blogging platform today and they sent me a link for a possible choice. It was Squarespace.
At first I thought, "This isn't a quick and dirty FREE blogging platform." I left the tab open and quickly setup a Wordpress ...
I've set up quite a few Wordpress blogs in my day. I've spent hours and hours looking for a theme for various Wordpress installations.
In some recent searching I came across a new site of FREE and Premium Wor...
Amazon Web Services finally added an S3 Bucket explorer to the Amazon Console. I was mentioning last week about how mature the offerings in the AWS console are getting, and how the the whole suite of Amazon Web Services is ready for use by Small Business. 
Hosting a web site for an event or conference can be costly. Traffic to the web site spikes around email campaigns, call for papers, registration opening, before and during the event.
Hosting providers that can handle the volume of traffic around events and conferences can be expensive. The 
