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BarCamp Nashville Next Week – See You There

Dave Delaney of the Podcast, Two Boobs And A Baby Plus, extended a speaking invitation to me for BarCamp Nashville. BarCamp Nashville is taking place next weekend – August 18th, 2007 at the Exit/In from 12:00 pm – 12:00 am. As with all unconferences, admission is one hundred percent free.
Here’s the vision for BarCamp Nashville (according to their website):
“We will create the greatest digital festival in the history of Nashville. We will bring together entrepreneurs, technology visionaries, digital creators, music revolutionaries and marketing gurus under one roof for twelve hours of education, innovation and recreation_ BarCamp Nashville is a ‘future’ festival. Expect a mashup of unexpected presentations with a great lineup of internationally recognized keynote speakers and live music. Nashville is ready for a celebration of our interactive, music, design and marketing communities. Space is limited, so register today.”
It sounds like a whole lot more than your standard BarCamp which, usually, focuses mostly on the technology side of life.
I’ll be presenting Six Pixels Of Separation – The New World Of New Marketing. I’ve got some news slides and concepts that I have yet to present live, so I’m excited to try them out on the BarCamp Nashville crowd. This will be my first time in Nashville. I’ll be arriving the night before, so feel free to let me know if you would like to meet-up.
As always, I’ll have my trusted M-Audio MicroTrack portable studio with me. Because BarCamp Nashville is taking place on a Saturday, odds are that my Podcast, Six Pixels Of Separation, will probably have a very “live” feel to it that week. I’m even thinking of recording it as I stroll through the event. I guess we’ll have to see what (and who) we can pick up.
Twist Image has also agreed to sponsor the event, and we’re all proud to continue to support this movement in taking the power of online social networking and moving it to the in-person experience (where the rubber really meets the road).
For more information and to sign up, please check out: BarCamp Nashville.

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.