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I want to pay at the door.

If any of you'd like to continue learning about this stuff, I'm talking next week at Web Design World and have some discount codes.

was there a shift in the matrix? Looks like several comments were lost on this thread.

All,

Thanks for attending my Keynote -- here are my slides.

Also, I'm riding my bike to the event -- that part of town in West Seattle is plenty rideable. If you need any tips on getting there by bike or want to ride with me, let me know here

Bike Hugger

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Also see this one, from the West Seattle Blog. I'll cover blogging as well in my keynote. Blogging is the cornerstone of social media for business.

There's a forum topic . . . BizJam speakers, "hot or not."

Barry,

My intent here is to not bog this convo down in issues between us -- whatever those are and assuming that there are any! -- and keep it positive and upbeat. I'd much rather not come into Biznik and get into a fight or a flamewar.

I hope that make sense. This isn't personal for me either and my entire intent is to help Bizjam succeed.

There aren't any hotels really in W. Seattle, besides a grody one. Best to stay near airport for cheap or downtown for boutique..

Barry,

So if you're not going and you're not helping, what are you doing? You're noting how you didn't get invited to speak, right? Isn't that what this is about? So, yep, we got that and I'm responding to you with, any other issues?

If so, I suggest we take this offline and spare the group this portion of discussion.

More sign ups -- woohoo.

Getting paid is the hardest thing about a small business, in consulting, and I've never been successful at late fees. Instead, I resort to hounding.

All,

I don't know what motivates people (least of which, my teenage daughter), but here and in previous threads on the event, there's definitely been a backlash to what we're doing and I'm talking about it straight up, calling it out. That's not an over-reaction from my point, it's a "hey, what's up with this?"

From my perspective, it's full-steam ahead on the event and better to discuss these issues, to turn them up to a boil, then letting them simmer in the background.

I'll give you an example -- last year at Bizjam, I got through at most 3 of my slides because of all the dialogue and Q/A. This year, I'll prepare just a few slides. That's what community does, talks just like this, and why I dig it.

I too am taken aback by this response and the buzzkilling on it -- I don't think I'm in sync with the community to know why, but there's lots of reason not to attend, various theories (high gas prices alone!), but better to focus on all the reasons to attend and yes the tons of work going into it.

From Textura Design's side, we're excited to bring in Matt, and Keith, to a fun, cool event. And teach Biznik all about social media.

Barry are you offering to help promote it to your groups? I'm out telling everyone I know.

Missing two days of work I can see, but don't agree at all with the complaints about $129.00. You'll spend more on that in ink cartridges at Costco or your latte budget for the month.

We do. There's a live blogging area planned.

Damn Barry, what a buzzkill and we had a similar discussion when I posted earlier about the event. Too bad, as it's a great event and I think you know that most of the benefit is in the hallway discussions.

See my comment above -- I roll Tabula Rasa baby!

See my post from last year on the badges . . .