Archive for November, 2010

Last Saturday I attended my first-ever BarCamp event in Philadelphia. For the uninitiated, BarCamp is a user-generated “unconference.” This means that there’s no set schedule of speakers or topics to promote before the event. Attendees sign up counting on the idea that they’ll share and absorb knowledge without knowing ahead of time exactly what the [...]

Daily Candy – think Groupon without the Buy Today immediacy – has been distributed to email boxes for 10 years now. The free newsletter emailed to subscribers about restaurants, shops and local experiences and outings talked to you like your best girlfriend who always knew the best places to go, eat and shop.