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Organizing a Mountain Town Meetup – Finding Speakers – Part 7
Background This post is part of our 7-part series on Organizing a Mountain Town Meetup. Here are the previous posts: Part 1 – Introduction please read this for the background you’ll need to fully enjoy this post. Part 2 – Meetup Basics Part 3 – Getting the Word Out Part 4 – At the Event Part 5…
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Background This post is part of our series on Organizing a Mountain Town Meetup. Here are the other posts in the series: Part 1 – Introduction please read this for the background you’ll need to fully enjoy this post. Part 2 – Meetup Basics Part 3 – Getting the Word Out Part 4 – At the Event…
Read MoreOrganizing a Mountain Town Meetup – Meetup Finances – Part 5
Background This post is part of our series on Organizing a Mountain Town Meetup. Here are all the posts in the series: Part 1 – Introduction please read this for the background you’ll need to fully enjoy this post. Part 2 – Meetup Basics Part 3 – Getting the Word Out Part 4 – At the Event…
Read MoreOrganizing a Mountain Town Meetup – At the Event – Part 4
Background This post is part of our series on Organizing a Mountain Town Meetup. Here are the other posts in the seires Part 1 – Introduction please read this for the background you’ll need to fully enjoy this post. Part 2 – Meetup Basics Part 3 – Getting the Word Out Part 4 – this post!…
Read MoreOrganizing A Mountain Town Meetup – Getting the Word Out – Part 3
Background This post is part of our series on Organizing a Mountain Town Meetup. Here are the other posts in the series: Part 1 – Introduction please read this for the background you’ll need to fully enjoy this post. Part 2 – Meetup Basics Part 3 – Getting the Word Out About Your Meetup Part 4…
Read MoreOrganizing A Mountain Town Meetup – Meetup Basics – Part 2
Background This post is part of our series on Organizing a Mountain Town Meetup. Here are the other posts in the series: Part 1 – Introduction please read this for the background you’ll need to fully enjoy this post. Part 2 – Meetup Basics Part 3 – Getting the Word Out About Your Meetup Part 4…
Read MoreOrganizing a Mountain Town Meetup – Series Introduction – Part 1
The Backstory Garrett and I have been organizing meetups for the Truckee nonprofit, Tahoe Silicon Mountain, for over 8 years. We’ve helped grow it from a small monthly meetup with a handful of attendees to a group of 1,200+ with 3 monthly events, including Mountain Minds Monday, which attracts 40-100+ people each month. Plus, we hold…
Read MoreGetting Started in Open Source
Getting Started in Open Source “The fundamental act of friendship among programmers is the sharing of programs” – Richard Stallman Recently, I’ve been working to contribute more to Open Source software. The following post is based on that experience and research for a presentation I did with Jordan Papaleo for TahoeJS. Contributing to Open Source…
Read MoreFrom Ski Instructor to Programmer – My Journey Back to Programming
On the surface, I have a stereotypical story for a programmer: I started programming at a young age, went to college for computer science and now I’m a senior JavaScript developer. But for around 8 years, I didn’t program at all and didn’t work in a technical field. This is the story of how I…
Read MoreResources for Google My Business Knowledge Bites
Find resources here for the November 1, 2016 Knowledge Bites session I taught for the Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce. Get Your Business Online website (to find out if you are listed and get verified) Google My Business website/login (after you are verified, use this) See if you are listed and verified in Google My Business
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