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OurPDX Meetups: We’re Bailing On Wednesdays!

We originally picked Wednesdays for our meetups because it was convenient for me, me, ME.
And while we’ve had decent turnouts, we’ve also heard from people who said it conflicted with last night’s Portland Web Innovators meeting (which I’m also bummed I missed out on — thanks, Rick for the kind words about OurPDX!) [...]

OurPDX shared bookmarks for September 10th

by Betsy Richter

Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for September 10th

Portland Mercury | Blogtown, PDX | Damn Right, I’m Bitter – Matt Davis asks these questions in a much longer rant:
Why would I want anything more to do with the city of Portland? Why should I believe [...]

09.10.2008 See the rest →

ORBlogs 2.0: Next Steps

by Betsy Richter

I’m following up here for one reason only: to direct you over to Rick Turoczy’s latest post recapping what’s happening with ORBlogs 2.0.
Here’s an excerpt:
In short, John Metta of Hood River has taken up the gauntlet and is moving forward—at an accelerated clip—on figuring out how to bring an Oregon blog aggregator [...]

09.08.2008 See the rest → 1 comment

Rallying to Save ORBlogs

by Betsy Richter

Update: There’s plenty of activity going on: see Rick’s latest update (with an update from Bausch himself), plus this from Mettadore. Looks like we’re pulling together an informal meeting today at Beer & Blog at Green Dragon for those who can attend. Finally, Rick’s also birddogging this, so follow his Twitterstream [...]

09.04.2008 See the rest → 4 comments

Lunch 2.0: My Twitter-y Experience

by Tricia

Today I attended Lunch 2.0 for the first time, and I don’t think I can remember a more valuable experience in all of my networking past. You see, being on Twitter, I have started to follow many local Portlanders that care about the same things I do—whether it be technology, food, or sustainability—and today I [...]

08.13.2008 See the rest → 11 comments

Lunch 2.0 tomorrow at CubeSpace!

by Betsy Richter

By now, I’m hoping that you’ve already RSVP-ed for tomorrow’s Lunch 2.0 at CubeSpace at noon, where you can meet and mingle with 133 other PDX-ers involved in some way, shape or form with technology. (Reading this blog? That’s probably close enough…!)
What’s Lunch 2.0? It started out as a Valley phenomenon that [...]

08.12.2008 See the rest → 2 comments

It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy…

by Betsy Richter

I was one of the lucky several hundred people or so who got to go to Ignite Portland 3 Wednesday night at the Bagdad Theatre. (Don’t know what Ignite is or why you should now feel like you missed out? See this or this or that.)
During the early networking break, I [...]

06.20.2008 See the rest → 17 comments