Upcoming Events - November 2007
We’ve got some exciting events coming up over the next four or five weeks here in Miami. First up we’ve got the first Facebook Developer Garage Miami on November 10 at UM. Then we’ve got an exciting November Refresh meetup on the 28.
Facebook Developer Garage Miami
November 10, 2007 at 10AM come join other developers and programmers for a few hours as we discuss the Facebook platform and all of its intricacies. We will cover topics ranging from building applications, to marketing them, and monetizing them. We should have a bunch of free shwag from facebook, some free pizza and drinks, and lots of interesting discussion.
Make sure to RSVP on the event page (on facebook of course) http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=12092015540
RefreshMiami November
November we will be featuring Mike Gowen of Scrapblog, who will be giving a presentation entitled “Design by subtraction.” This event will be held November 28 at 7:30PM Location is to be determined, likelyhood is going to be at UM School of Communication.
Miami Geek Dinner for FOWA
Miami Geek Dinner for FOWA
Originally uploaded by alexdecarvalho.
We had a fun dinner tonight to welcome Mel Kirk from Carsonified, who is in town planning the next FOWA conference in Miami. Thank you, Carlos Garcia and Scrapblog, for drinks and dinner. I’ve posted photos from the dinner on Flickr.
Full disclosure: I work at Scrapblog.
October 2k7 Refresh
We’ll be holding the October meetup on the 24th, at Umiami’s school of communications. Tentative topics include ethical/whitehat SEO, SEM, PPC, and SMO. So if you are at all interested in learning about the latest trends in marketing your sites/products in a smart and safe manner, come on b.
When: October 24th 7:30PM
Where: UMiami School of Communications (directions available)
Who: Other web and tech enthusiasts.
Refresh September
We will be holding our monthly meetup Wednesday September 19, 2007 at 7:30PM at Books and books in coral gables. The location is 265 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33146.
There is no speaker this month, but we will be having some lively conversation and there will be plenty of drinks and food for sale at the venue.
August Refresh - Social Graph
Hey Folks,
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
August Refresh
Hey guys, August is fast approaching, and I wanted to give you all the heads up in advance this time. RefreshMiami is scheduled for August 29, 2007 over at UM school of communications. We are still looking for volunteers interested in speaking, so don’t be shy.
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
RefreshMiami Summer Edition
We’ll be holding our RefreshMiami meeting tomorrow night at 7:30pm at Books & Books in Coral Gables. We’ll summarize the CommunityNext Viral conference and the Ypulse Mashup 2007 teen marketing conference. We’ll also discuss the “cult of the amateur”, as suggested by Jorge Barroso, and other topics that may come up. All this over a coffee, tea or beer 
See you tomorrow!
The address is:
Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables
305.442.4408
To Reach Books & Books from the North:
*Take I-95 South to the first airport exit 112 West
*Go West on 112 to Coral Gables/Le Jeune Road South
*Go South on Le Jeune Road.
*At the light for Aragon Avenue (SW 21st Street), turn left or east.
*Go one block to 265 Aragon Avenue.
To Reach Books & Books from the South:
*Take US 1 heading north to Le Jeune Road.
*Make a left on Le Jeune Road.
*One block past Miracle Mile, make a right on Aragon Avenue (SW 21st Street)
* Books & Books will be on your left.
The Museum Parking Garage is located directly across from the entrance to Books & Books. Park in the garage, bring your ticket with you into the store and get it validated for one hour of free parking.
Refresh June
Hey everyone,
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!
Ad:Tech Miami update
As a follow up to last week’s post, Ad:Tech Miami is coming June 22. We still have the discount code available 25% off using coupon code: ATMB2A. Myspace executive Shawn Gold will deliver the keynote presentation outlining where Myspace is heading in the US hispanic and Latin American markets. Terra Networks CEO Fernando Madeira will also be keynoting.
Next Refresh: June 20
Refresh will be holding its next event June 20th. You can RSVP if you like either via our facebook group, or via the mailing list/google group, or comment here.
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
