Feb 4, 2010
Heading to Miami
Hey everyone,
Just wanted to let you know that I’m heading to Miami for our event The Future of Web Apps. If you’re in the area, hope you can make it!
We’ve got a killer lineup of companies speaking, including:
Topics include:
- HTML5
- Advanced JavaScript
- API’s
- Online marketing that works
- Funding strategies for startups
- Web app branding
- Functional languages
- Measuring your apps success
- How to build a successful web app business
Hope you can make it! Read more at The Future of Web Apps site.
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Brendan Dawes
As usual people jump to conclusions without all the facts to hand. But such is the nature of Twitter and the zero attention span world we live in. What was I saying? Oh yeah…
The first conference I ever spoke at was when Hillman Curtis kindly invited me to join him on stage in Seattle at Macromedia (remember them) Web World in 2000. However I had to pay for my own flight and accommodation. There was no mention of being paid at all, and neither did I ask; this was an amazing opportunity which I ceased with both hands. And that one decision did change my life. I met the Flashforward crew and met my future publisher as well as amazing people that I would later become my friends such as Todd Purgason from Juxt Interactive. In short I often think what would have happened if I had said "I'm not coming unless you pay me". At any rate I was some youngish wannabee, so I was never going to be paid anyway.
These days I'm lucky enough to get paid for having the honour of being asked to speak at conferences, but you know what, I still do conferences when they don't have the budget to pay me, because I just see these things as huge opportunities to meet people – you never know where it's going to lead. In now way am I advocating working for free at all. Things that add value should be paid for but it's not simply black and white – look at what else you can get out of it.
And as an additional note can I just say that Carsonified also pay for EVERY hotel expense including hotel mini-bars, and believe me no other conference does that!
Brendan Dawes
Aug 11th, 2010
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