Hi Everyone, Something a little different for the list on a Tuesday morning when it appears the financial world is in meltdown: some good news, a thank you, and a bit pat on the back.
Two Sundays ago, I was lucky enough to be invited to attend and present at Influence Forum 08, run by Phil Sim and his team from Media Connect. Phil was gracious enough to make a few of spots at their Demo event available to Silicon Beach readers, and along with Sunit from Technovus (who posted last week), and Robert from WhoCanDo.com.au, I got a chance to present our new, soon to launch startup, Hiive Systems, to an assembled audience of 50+ journalists and tech luminaries. Following the official stuff, there was a great dinner and excellent networking and relationship building that went well into Monday morning (apologies to other guests trying to sleep at the Crowne Plaza in the Hunter Valley). The next day I was able to relax a little more and participate, which was made more interesting with the Twitter back-channel. In terms of outcomes, we're still pre-launch, so we weren't looking for immediate press, but I've come away from the event with about 3x more followers on Twitter<http://www.twitter.com/geoffmcqueen>, not to mention a bunch of traditional press contacts and a few prospective customers too. My experiences are covered in a little more detail in a blog post on the event<http://www.hiivesystems.com/blog/2008/09/hiive-influence-forum-08/> for anyone who's interested. The big thankyou is for Phil is choosing to make spaces available at late notice to the people on this list hungry to get the word out about their businesses. It was also great to have a forum that puts a range of parties interested in the tech space together in such a facilitated way: from my time in the other 'Silicon' location, I felt that it was the face to face contact (as described really well by Paul Wolff<http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/msg/5bfa7f92780d631c> back in August) that made the difference and drove the sector forward. So, in summary, big thanks and appreciation to Phil to giving our community a chance to get our names out there - much appreciated! Geoff --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
