Comments on: Tech 4 Africa - Starting to get talked about on the blogosphere http://www.peeledcarrots.com/2006/11/27/tech-4-africa-starting-to-get-talked-about-on-the-blogosphere/ ....cause life's too short to peel carrots. Enough said!! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:31:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Gareth http://www.peeledcarrots.com/2006/11/27/tech-4-africa-starting-to-get-talked-about-on-the-blogosphere/#comment-68 Gareth Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:47:11 +0000 http://soapbox.technovated.com/2006/11/27/tech-4-africa-starting-to-get-talked-about-on-the-blogosphere/#comment-68 Hey Andy Yup, you're on the money there, and thanks for some more ideas! At the moment, we're using a Wiki for project documentation, Basecamp for project management, and this blog for communication (when our site is live we'll link to it and add to the Tech 4 Africa site as well). We're thinking we're gonna use a combo of Flickr, Podcasting, Upcoming.org, Google Calendar, YouTube, FeedBurner, Ubuntu, OpenOffice, Google Maps (if poss. in Africa then that is), Technorati, PollDaddy, Skype etc etc - but we may have to deal with slow bandwidth on the conference days (not sure how that is going to play out yet, but we are speaking to a connectivity sponsor to help with that). We're trying to show two things: 1. We're not to be thought of as the poor technology cousins from the Dark side of the room. 2. We've got some hot skills that can compete with the best in the world. Thanks for your feedback! and help us to get the troops mobilised! Hey Andy

Yup, you’re on the money there, and thanks for some more ideas!

At the moment, we’re using a Wiki for project documentation, Basecamp for project management, and this blog for communication (when our site is live we’ll link to it and add to the Tech 4 Africa site as well).

We’re thinking we’re gonna use a combo of Flickr, Podcasting, Upcoming.org, Google Calendar, YouTube, FeedBurner, Ubuntu, OpenOffice, Google Maps (if poss. in Africa then that is), Technorati, PollDaddy, Skype etc etc - but we may have to deal with slow bandwidth on the conference days (not sure how that is going to play out yet, but we are speaking to a connectivity sponsor to help with that).

We’re trying to show two things:
1. We’re not to be thought of as the poor technology cousins from the Dark side of the room.
2. We’ve got some hot skills that can compete with the best in the world.

Thanks for your feedback! and help us to get the troops mobilised!

]]> By: Andy Hadfield http://www.peeledcarrots.com/2006/11/27/tech-4-africa-starting-to-get-talked-about-on-the-blogosphere/#comment-67 Andy Hadfield Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:00:31 +0000 http://soapbox.technovated.com/2006/11/27/tech-4-africa-starting-to-get-talked-about-on-the-blogosphere/#comment-67 It's a pleasure! You're sitting on a great opportunity here to use the blogging community (who spend way too much time online!) to generate feedback and suggestions on how to structure this conference. THAT is what will set you apart from the pack and make it a worthwhile event. Go completely 2.0 - put all build events, workshops, actual conference time table on Google Calendar. Conference videos on YouTube, showcase all the blogs that help out, use collaboration tools, get all presenters to use that online powerpoint as opposed to MS PPT... stuff like that. It’s a pleasure!

You’re sitting on a great opportunity here to use the blogging community (who spend way too much time online!) to generate feedback and suggestions on how to structure this conference. THAT is what will set you apart from the pack and make it a worthwhile event.

Go completely 2.0 - put all build events, workshops, actual conference time table on Google Calendar. Conference videos on YouTube, showcase all the blogs that help out, use collaboration tools, get all presenters to use that online powerpoint as opposed to MS PPT… stuff like that.

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