| 01/11/00 RMIUG Meeting
- The Cluetrain Manifesto
The Tuesday, January 11th meeting of the
Rocky Mountain Internet Users Group (RMIUG)
will feature an authors' panel of Christopher
Locke and Rick Levine discussing their new
book, "The Cluetrain Manifesto." Please
join us for what promises to be an interesting
and entertaining evening of discussion and
debate.
Christopher Locke (clocke@panix.com)
is editor-in-chief of personalization.com,
editor/publisher of the widely acclaimed
web magazine, Entropy Gradient Reversals,
and president of Entropy Web Consulting
in Boulder, Colorado. He will be speaking
on how the Internet looks a lot like a marketplace
in Mesopotamia 5000 years ago. He brings
vast Net and pre-Net experience to exploring
how the real web opportunity differs in
kind from business as usual. As Christopher
describes, "The in-your-face rhetoric of
the manifesto was meant to be challenging
to companies who think the Web is just 'TV
with a BUY button.' In this talk, I will
unpack a new set of market realities in
which hipshot style wins over formal presentations,
uncertainty wins over button-down precision,
and your brand plus a buck might buy you
a cup of mediocre coffee."
Rick Levine (rick@mancala.com)
is President of Mancala, a Net startup in
Boulder. Previously, Rick was web architect
for Sun Microsystems' Java Software group
and was responsible for the creation of
much of the public web interface for java.sun.com
and the Java Developer Connection. He is
author of the Sun Guide to Web Style, one
of the creators of the ICE protocol for
content syndication on the web, and creator
of the HatFactory e-commerce testbed site.
Rick will be speaking on how Cluetrain-inspired
ideas might be applied to real companies
in the real world. Rick says, "I will also
be giving Chris grief over his use of the
terms 'hipshot,' 'button-down' and 'mediocre.'"
As always, we will allow lots of time
for interactive Q&A, so bring plenty of
questions and be ready for an interactive
discussion filled with lively debate, argumentation,
new ideas and even an occasional diatribe
or two. We will also be giving away some
free copies of the Cluetrain book.
URL's of interest:
The meeting is Tuesday, Jan. 11th from
7:00 - 9:00 pm (with optional 6:30 pm start
for refreshments and informal networking).
The meeting will be held at The National
Center for Atmospheric Research at 1850
Table Mesa Drive in Boulder, which is located
on the west end of Table Mesa Drive, up
the hill, right under the Flatirons. For
door-to-door driving direction, go to MapQuest
(http://www.mapquest.com/
), click on Driving Directions, enter your
starting address, NCAR's address, and voila!
Park in the NCAR lot, go in the main door,
and ask the guard to point you to meeting,
which is held in the main auditorium, right
off the lobby. The meeting is free and open
to the public, but we may pass the hat to
help defray expenses.
Our meeting location seats about 120 people.
That is usually enough room to accommodate
all attendees, but it's impossible for us
to predict how many people will show up
for any given meeting. Seating is always
on a first-come, first serve basis, and
in the event of more attendees than seats,
we won't be able to admit additional people
into the auditorium after all seats are
filled.
RMIUG appreciates the ongoing support
from XOR Network Engineering ( http://www.xor.com
) for administration of RMIUG's electronic
discussion lists & web site. Thanks also
to Interliant ( http://www.interliant.com
) for sponsorship of refreshments for our
group.
Consultants and companies are invited
to bring Internet-related product information,
brochures, and business cards which will
be displayed on an information table.
There are email mailing lists set up for
this group. To subscribe or unsubscribe,
see http://www.rmiug.org/maillist.html
You can also reach the RMIUG "Executive"
Committee at rmiug-comm@rmiug.org.
Our web site is at http://www.rmiug.org/
Tentative schedule of upcoming 2000 RMIUG
meetings:
- Mar 2000 - Serving Customers in the
next Millenium -- How the Internet is
Changing (almost) Everything
- May 2000 - Is Net Security Possible
in a World of Stealthy Hackers and Destructive
Viruses?
- Jul 2000 - Nonprofits on the Net and
How the Web May Change Charitable Giving
- Sep 2000 - "SPAMfest 2000" - Unsolicited
email: Who, What, Why, How, and Guerilla
Methods to Fight it (on and off the RMIUG
lists ;-)
- Nov 2000 - Everything You Always Wanted
to Know About XML (but were afraid to
ask via email for fear of being flamed...)
(To suggest a topic, send your idea to
rmiug-comm@rmiug.org)
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