Where:
Doubletree Hotel
2649 S Bayshore Dr
Miami, FL
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You can rspv here

Come join us for this month event, we are going to have a great lineup.
Robert Murray will introduce us to Social Media for Social Change, an example of how social media can bring together people from all around the world together to change society in a big way.
John James Jacoby , the developer of Buddy Press, will talk about WordPress MU and Buddy Press, more specifically about the new Buddy Press 1.1 release that is scheduled to come out later this month.
Alex De Carvalho and Brian Breslin are going to give us an overview on the current situation of the South Florida tech community and its future.

Over a hundred and people have attended each of the past three RefreshMiami meetups and we’re expecting even more next Wednesday for the party. So if you haven’t attended yet, this is a great opportunity to meet the community.

There will be food, wine, beer, sodas, and other snacks and refreshments. We will also be joined by a local band! So bring a friend with you, but make sure you RSVP at the facebook page.

RefreshMiami events are free thanks to the generosity of these awesome sponsors!

Brikolodge
3301 NE 1st Ave Unit L207
Miami, FL
(305) 403-9747
Directions for getting to Brikolodge:
Brikolodge is in the Midtown4 building, on the south side of the building (follow the signs). Midtown 4 itself is at the southeast corner of NE 33rd street and NE 1st Avenue. There is plenty of parking along the street, and several garages a block or two away (next to target or the other stores on S Miami Ave).

There will be food, wine, beer, sodas, and other snacks and refreshments. So bring a friend with you, but make sure you RSVP at the facebook page.

Our sponsors deserve a round of applause; our meetup would not be possible without them. Please have a chat with them — Sunir and Rayanne from Freshbooks, who are flying in from Toronto!, Murray from Starmark, and Teresa from Florida on the Cheap — they’re the nicest people.

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So if you haven’t registered already, you should hurry up. Over 500 people are already registered and planning on making it there.  Registration is here: http://www.refreshmiami.org/registration and information about the event can be found here: http://www.refreshmiami.org.  If you are coming, make sure you buy your lunch ticket in advance so we have enough food for everyone.  Lunch tickets can be purchased here.

After Barcamp we will be having a Geek Dinner. Space is very limited for this event, but it will be held at 7PM Sunday February 22nd after barcamp is over. RSVP now by heading over here: http://geekdinnermiami09.eventbrite.com/ The price for the dinner will be in the $25-30 range (not including tip/tax). Should be a great event as we already have over 30 people RSVPd.

Next up that week is the Future of Web Apps conference. This is being held at the Adrienne Arsht Center February 23-24. Use code F0WA/BCM for $95 off the ticket price!

• Against All Odds – A Media Literate World Alex de Carvalho
• Culture in the Digital Workspace Richard Lent
• Getting Your Designs Approved: 12 Simple Rules Larissa Meek
• How to Be a Productive ERT Chris Fullman
• Storyboards, Wireframes and Prototypes: OH MY! Larissa Meek
• The 10 Commandments of a Digital Agency Richard Lent

If there are any more SXSW panels proposed by South Floridians, please feel free to mention them in a comment, especially with a link.

From our humble beginnings at a starbucks 2 years ago where 5 of us showed up (Rebecca Saylor took the picture).

to having over 300 people show up to barcampmiami2

it has definitely been an incredible experience. So much thanks to all the folks who are too many to list, who have helped make Refresh, Barcamp, and our little web/tech community down here a success.

So let’s party!
Ali from Brikolodge the new co-working space in Miami has graciously offered to host the party for us in their space.

So here are the details:
When: Wednesday April 30, 2008 @ 8PM
Where: 250 NW 23rd St #204
RSVP on Facebook
RSVP on Upcoming

So come join us for pizza, beer, and wine.

Sorry for the late posting here; if you’re a member of the RefreshMiami mailing list on Google Groups, you would have heard about this a few days ago. So our August meetup is on for Wednesday August 29th at 7:30PM over at UM’s school of communications.

Topics will include:
- The Social Graph: what it is and why it’s significant
- Social Object 101
- Marketing through the social graph
- Monetizing the social graph (facebook platforms and more)

This month’s speakers will be Alex de Carvalho, and myself (Brian Breslin). For more details, you can RSVP on the facebook event page.
Date: Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Time: 7:30pm – 10:30pm
Location:
University of Miami School of Communications Room 2055
5600 Brunson Drive
Coral Gables, FL

Also don’t forget to participate in our google group, which you can access on the left hand side.

Check back here for more updates as we get closer.

Cheers,
Brian

Our June meetup will be this wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 7:30PM at UM’s School of communication room #2056. Our very own podcast star Chris Saylor of theweb2.0show will be speaking about Ruby on Rails. He’ll be giving a lot of intro pointers, background info, and more. So its bound to be an exciting meetup and we hope to see you all there!

Location is the UM school of communication’s wolfson building. 5600 Brunson Drive, Coral Gables. Event starts at 7:30, speakers will be announced shortly.

See you all there!
Brian

Flickr photoset here.

We had a great meetup last night with over 30 participants at the University of Miami’s School of Communication. Notably, the folks from Agency.net AgencyNet.com in Ft. Lauderdale attended for the first time, thanks to Dan Rubin. Hopefully we’ll see more folks from Broward and perhaps we can hold some meetups there as well.

Michael Montgomery spoke to us about “Web Standards for Skeptics” and the advantages of separating content, style and behavior when creating web sites. Rather than summarizing his speech, here’s a link to Michael’s presentation, which he placed online using … web standards!

While responding to a question, Michael referred to an article he’d written on “Copyright Primer for Designers“.

Upcoming stuff:

• We’re looking for a speaker for our next event on June 20th, so please get in touch with us if you’d like to present.
• Monica is setting up a team for us at the miami sports & social club, to participate in their recreational dodgeball league on south beach on saturdays at 11am. It starts may 26th, and $75 gets you a team shirt and 7 regular season games, plus tournament games for qualifying teams. Follow this link if you’d like to take part.
• As a reminder, we have DemoCampMiami in September, please reserve your place if you’d like to present, there are only 2 spots left. You’ll need a password to edit the wiki, it is c4mp.
• Finally, as a shameless plug, I’ll be giving a course at UM in Fall’07, #CVJ596, on “online expression, community building and citizen journalism“. If you’re a student and interested, you may contact me for more information.
• Anyone up for an informal RefreshMiami in a couple of weeks?