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Christmas 2009 Snow from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo .

Hi, and welcome to the first-ever Philebrity Awards Poll. For years now, we’ve been talking about doing a Philebrity Awards, and this year, after a lot of thought and consultation from staffers, contributors and friends, we’ve finally gone and done it. Since this is our first time out, there are bound to be things we’ve overlooked — Philebrity covers a diverse array of Philly topics, day in and day out more Philebrity Awards Poll. IndyHall Winners Business from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo . Shout out to our Friends Alex H and Geoff D at IndyHall for winning Which local business intrigued you, challenged you and served you better than any other? (Poll Closed) CapoGiro Gelato 30% (1516 votes) IndyHall 33% (1651 votes) Mugshots Coffee House 26% (1318 votes) Philadelphia Union Soccer 6% (301 votes) PostGreen 5% (242 votes) Total Votes: 5028 Philebrity Awards Poll. BlameDrews Cancer winner from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo . Congrats to Blame Drew's Cancer Team for winning: (Shane won but th...

It’s that time of year again! We’d like to show our appreciation for your continued support and attendance to our events by throwing a big blow out holiday party. This time we’ve invited several other local tech/creative groups to join us in the fun! So whether you’ve been naughty or nice this year, come on out and help us celebrate! Thursday, December 10th Starting at 6pm until ?? Fuzion Grill and Social Club 460 North 2nd Street Philadelphia, PA 19123 Here are some of the fun details: •Free parking! •FREE FOOD! •FREE BEER! •Free candy & snacks! •Drink specials on well drinks! •Music from DJ Marilyn Thomas of Fluid Nightclub (spinning tunes from the 80s, 90s, and today plus holiday favorites)

Barcampphilly2009 from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo . If you never have attended Barcampphilly.org you are missing it big time. What is BarCamp? According to Wikipedia, Barcamp is “…an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.” Read more on the official Barcamp website. What will BarCamp Philly be like? BarCamp is an open-format conference where the attendees are the presenters. Our subject matter will be directly tied to what ideas people bring to share with the community. Most of the rooms at UArts are equipped with projectors if participants would like to give a slide presentation. Discussion groups, round tables, Q&A, brainstorming together are also options.

Fantastic day of community and awareness. PurpleStride Philadelphia Walk for Pancreatic Cancer 20091107 from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo . Slide Show of event Mark

Phillydotnet.org CodeCamp 2009.2 from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo . Our second 2009 Code Camp will be held at the DeVry University campus in Fort Washington, PA on Saturday, October 17 from 8:30-5:00. Lots of code, just say no to slides! 8 hours 60 sessions (8:30, 10:00, 12:30, 2:00, 3:30) 12 tracks including two hands-on Beginner rooms and the Bonus Track 600 seats with tables (laptops welcome) Free breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack (expanded menu!) Raffles and prizes at 5:00 Easy parking After hours party in Ambler (network with speakers and attendees) All of this is made possible by our Gold partners (Component One, Hosting.com, TEK Systems), Silver partners (Pearson, Redgate, Telerik) and our Platinum site sponsors (DeVry University, Microsoft). Here is the tentative track list, but room assignments and times are subject to change. Click on the speaker names below to see the speaker bio and session topic. Check here and here for the latest printable agenda: 8:00 Registration, con...

Another Great day at Codecamp Phillydotnet.org

GIFT OF LIFE FAMILY HOUSE Gift of Life Family House is a non-profit organization providing temporary lodging and supportive services to transplant patients and families seeking transplant treatment at Philadelphia transplant centers. http://philadelphia.twestival.com/

Get ready to blame all day on 9/9/09! Blame-a-Thon starts at the stroke of Midnight on 9/9/09 (that’s Tuesday heading into Wednesday), and it’s going to raise tons of awareness and donations for LiveStrong. There are two halves to Blame-a-Thon. Overnight through noon is @ Indy Hall; from noon on is @ North Star Bar. Below is the basic info about both locations, and how you can give to LiveStrong. http://blamedrewscancer.com/ # Hear Drew talk about the Blame-a-thon Alex Hillman talks about how he got involved. Britt and Michaelangelo talk about the day's events Melissa Jones from Alex Lemonade talks about the story of Alex's Lemonade vision.

Social Media for Social Good Social Media Club Philadelphia, PANMA, and Temple University Dept. of Journalism Presents: Social Media for Social Good from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo . Social media offers organizations an indispensable tool set for a wide variety of philanthropic activities including activism, education, donor and volunteer development, and direct fundraising. Because of its inherently personal and community-based nature, social media provides an ideal canvas to work within, allowing causes to not just communicate, but also to activate and invigorate significant grassroots activity. [source: Geoff Livingston on Social Media for Social Good] On Tuesday, August 25th, we'll have local do-gooders discuss how they utilize social media for their specific causes. We'll have panelists representing the following causes: Blame Drew's Cancer - blamedrewscancer.com/ Twestival - twestival.com/ / Philadelphia Twestival - philadelphia.twestival.com/ American Red Cross - red...

Wil has done another outstanding job presenting SEO. Mark The presentation's focus is on looking at Search Engine Optimization SEO and what matters most TODAY in the algorithms of todays largest search engines. Outside of the basic technical blocking and tackling, how do you succeed online? Build great content? Is that enough? How do you build links in a way that is likely to stay around? What about Google Universal, what happens when 4 of the top 10 rankings are videos, news items, products, local results and blogs? How does del.ici.us influence rankings at Yahoo? This presentation is going to be a crash course on everything that's been influencing search in the last 2 years and educate participants on what to be keeping an eye out for. Did you know that Youtube gets more searches than MSN? Is your search strategy prepared for that? If any of the questions above sound intriguing or new to you, come join Wil Reynolds and the SEER team as they help explain what's new and how...

VizThinkPhilly Photos About VizThink VizThink is gathering visual thinkers from all corners of the world to create the first global community dedicated to the use of visualization in all forms of learning and communication. VizThink was initially conceived by Dave Gray, Chairman of Xplane. A long time proponent of Visual Communication, Dave envisoned the creation of a global community of visual thinkers. In 2006 XPLANE expanded to Europe through a new office in Madrid, Spain. While in Europe Dave became acquainted with Rodolfo Carpintier of Digital Assets Deployment, a business incubator firm in Madrid. Through their conversations the concept of VizThink was raised and Mr. Carpintier, who has a successful history of building organizations that revolve around community, was enthused by the idea and decided to fund it. In July of 2007, after about six months of planning, VizThink was launched. VizThink.com http://vizthink.com/index.php?option=com_attend_events&task=view&id=26

It's a rap another successfull code camp. Great job team Mark April 18 Code Camp 2009.1Saturday Fort Washington, PA Platinum Partners DeVry University Microsoft Gold Partners HostMySite Infragistics Software Logic TOMOSSilver Partners Oxford Computer Group Quest Software Redgate RTTS TEK Systems Our first installment of the 2009 Code Camp series will be held at the DeVry University campus in Fort Washington, PA on Saturday, April 18 from 8:30-5:00.Detailed directions are on the DeVry web site. Sorry, but we are all sold out. There will be another Code Camp in October. * Lots of code, just say no to slides!* 8 hours* 60 sessions (8:30, 10:00, 12:30, 2:00, 3:30)* 12 tracks including new hands-on Beginner series and the Bonus Track* 500 seats with tables (laptops welcome)* Free breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack (expanded menu!)* Raffles and prizes at 5:00* Easy parking* After hours party in Ambler (network with speakers and attendees) All of this is made possible by our Gold p...

Booth's Corner Bethel PA from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo . History of Booth's Corner -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Booth's Corner Farmers Market was founded in the 1930's by a farmer named Earl Phillips. His 14 acre farm, complete with wooden barn and sprawling fields, served as the sale grounds for Amish farmers and other merchants who brought their goods by truck and wagon to the Market during the Great Depression. Over the years, a series of sheds and outbuildings were added on to the barn to accommodate the growing numbers of merchants offering discounted national brand merchandise and a wide variety of farm fresh produce, poultry and meats. On Friday nights, thousands of bargain hunters would head for the excitement of the "sale" as the famous auction was known in the early days. Booth's Corner also attracted some of the country's most famous entertainers. Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson's famous sid...

The Entrepreneur Expo will be held on April 2, 2009 from 6:00pm – 9:00pm, at the Science Center, 3711 Market Street in Philadelphia. Over 40 entrepreneurs will display their dreams, ideas and hard work in a trade-show like setting, with a select number giving a brief presentation of their work phillystartupleaders.org/ Red Stapler Consulting was formed to meet the unique needs of freelancers, independents and small businesses. We want to provide them with the assistance and means to bring their business to the next level and higher. By providing office management and business administration services on an as needed, a la carte basis, we provide our clients with superior service at a price that takes into consideration an indie’s budget. redstaplerconsulting.net/ The Entrepreneur Expo April 2, 2009 from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo . Mark

HEALTHCAMP PHILADELPHIA 2009 is an open forum on Healthcare & the Web, open standards, mobile technologies, social media & process innovation. YOU set the schedule & host the break-out sessions in this Barcamp -style free conference. Bring ideas, make connections. More Photos Here are some thoughts from Mark Scrimshire Change Agent, Blogger and Visionary. HealthCamp Instigator. Futurist wannabe - can you ever get to the future? Passionate about Web 2.0 and collaboration inside and outside the enterprise Here is an animated slide show of the event. The magic happens when you get to the event. As mentioned above the board is empty and participants fill in the schedule. HEALTHCAMP PHILADELPHIA 2009 from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo . As cool as all this was the best was I won a Flip Mino HD . Was I blown away. So we all need to take the lessons learned here and go back to our positions in the world and tell people that we are responsible for our own health care and we have...

Agile Philly Meeting Feb 10th, 2009 at Ternary Software in Lionville PA from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo . Agile Philly Meeting Feb 10th, 2009 at Ternary Software in Lionville PA Speaker Ken Clyne, Agile Coach for Rally Dev on Collective Wisdom != Mediocrity There seems to be no slowing down the evolution of the information technology industry. As the dot com era disappears into long term memory and we fast approach the physical limits of the silicon wafer, we are witnessing sea change in the way teams build software and collaborate. The widespread success of agile methods confluent with the emergence of social networks has ushered in a new era where collaborative teams are replacing the old plan driven command and control structures. In this presentation, we explore why ceding control is not only key to building a high trust environment, but also why it results in better decisions. This topic is how a collaborative environment can better drive your organization toward innovation and qua...

Johnny Bilotta, Creative Director Dioscuri: Relationships between Designers and Developers at IndyHall Labs Like Castor and Pollux, designers and developers complement each other in mythical ways. Getting some of the talent from both in the same room can make wonderful debate and produce incredibly engaging projects. Indy Hall Labs provides the perfect incubator for these relationships to blossom into killer products. This discussion is intended to become a Rosetta Stone for both camps. Focus will be on how this relationship is cultivated. Designers will gain insight on interface and branding, communication, and limits of the medium. Developers will get a glimpse into the mind of a visual artist and how, with a bit of art direction, their app can look like a streamlined butterfly! Biography As one of the most active designers at IndyHall Labs, Johnny works with some of the top developers in Philadelphia. His experience has brought creative direction and graphics, most recently, to RipI...

Thanks to Jeff Pulver http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/008780.html I wanted to share this encouraging monement with my friends. Mark Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy

One of my Christian friends that knows I really like the work of Chuck Missler let me know he was in town for one of his talks. Chuck is one of the brightest christian teacher on the planet today. Willing to tackle any topic. UFO's to sub atomic physics from a christian perspective. Great work check out his site. http://www.khouse.org/ It was a fantastic night. Mark http://ccphilly.org/home/default.aspx Chuck Missler - Join us here at Calvary Philly on January 14th and 15th for discussions on strategic trends and a study of the scriptures with Chuck Missler. The services will begin at 7:30pm and will go till 9:00pm. Childcare is provided both evenings.

RefreshPhilly.org Photos Tom Boutell Symfony: a Rails-like, agile web development framework for PHP Web site development takes time. Most developers have heard about the benefits of Ruby on Rails, a development framework famous for its ability to speed the completion of a web site by anticipating common needs and minimizing busywork. But since Rails is written in Ruby rather than a more common language like PHP, Rails requires special programming skills and a separate infrastructure. The Symfony framework offers similar benefits for developers who prefer the popular PHP programming language. This half-hour presentation will focus on the features and benefits of Symfony, including an examination of a web site of local interest developed within the Symfony framework. Bio: Tom Boutell is a web developer with P'unk Avenue, a Philly-based design firm with deep community roots. In years past he edited the original WWW FAQ, developed the 1.0 release of RealNetworks' RealAudio system a...

I want to wish everyone a happy new year and welcome 2009 in with a blast. Here is a photo from my www.vacationnearhome.com site. The Tropicana at New Years Eve. All the best in 2009. Thanks for stopping by more great things to come in 2009 Mark