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BarCamp Montreal Coming Soon And CaseCamp Update

While I was dragging my feet in getting a BarCamp Montreal or DemoCamp Montreal rolling, it looks like Fred Ngo and Jean Jacques Taoko have taken the self-organizing lead and the roles of Organizers for BarCamp Montreal. The wiki is all set up and people are already registering and showing interest. There is no fixed date, but they’re looking at Fall 2006 on a Saturday in the Downtown Montreal vicinity. You can visit the wiki here and get self-organizing: BarCamp Montreal.
Here’s how the wiki describes BarCamp:
“BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.
All attendees must give a demo, a session, or help with one. All presentations are scheduled the day they happen. Prepare in advance, but come early to get a slot on the wall.
Presenters are responsible for making sure that notes/slides/audio/video of their presentations are published on the web for the benefit of all and those who can’t be present.
Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.
No spectators, only participants!
When you come, be prepared to share with barcampers. When you leave, be prepared to share it with the world.”
BarCamp is geared at those interested in “Web 2.0 technology, or high-tech entrepreneurship in general.”
While we’re at it, the first Marketing Unconference, CaseCamp, has its Montreal date closely approaching. CaseCamp Montreal is set for July 4th, 2006 here at Twist Image. I am still hoping that someone will come forward and present a marketing case study in French. As of this morning, we have close to 40 participants.
CaseCamp Montreal got some great feedback yesterday from Joseph Jaffe on his Across The Sound Podcast – Episode #38. He aired a Carcast audio comment I had left regarding CaseCamp and gave his own impressions on this new unconference format. Check it out here: Across The Sound – Episode #38.
Awesome stuff.
Get self-organizing here: CaseCamp Montreal.
I love a good Long Tail Riot.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.