Hi everybody. Joi Podgorny is gauging interest for participation in an unConference in October for our group KidsOnline. She organized one last fall and it was fantastic. I am definitely there again this year.
She asked us to put the word out on the AOCM, so I am just going to copy her message and hope the links work. If not, ping me and I will get you an invite to the group. Lots of great information for those of us working with kids online.
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Hello Hello Friends!
Hope everyone is having a great summer (or winter if you are southern hemisphere inclined).
Wanted to shoot a note out to see if there was interest in doing another unconfernece this October. I will be out in the San Francisco area for Forum One's Online Community Summit on Oct 8 & 9. So we were thinking of having a day dedicated to talking informally about issues concerning kids in the online space in the unconference format.
We did this a year ago in November and it was a great day. Always great to talk shop with passionate folks.
If we did this again, would you be interested in coming? I made a handy poll so we don't have to mail-bomb each other with replies:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGFsYjVmcVRrTzB0dXp...
Additionally/Alternatively, I was chatting with a couple people about having regular global cocktail parties where we could talk shop too. These could be held or hosted at a local bar or company in various cities, preferably on the same day. Then everyone from that city could get together, have a drink and talk about kids online issues. I put a bit in the form above to gauge interest. I think it sounds fun and depending on where I am on the day we organize it, I would totally help host one.
Feel free to forward the form to anyone else you think would be interested (e-mint list, AOCM list, etc), especially if they don't want to sign up for this listserv but might be interested in coming to one of these events.
Thanks All!
Joi