BarCamp Central Asia 2009 starts registering participants

The next “barcamp” format conference, i.e., an open, non-commercial educational conference for New Media specialists, for Central Asia will take place in Almaty on April 17-19.

By way of background, the term “barcamp” was invented by web 2.0 pioneer Tim O’Reilly to describe the difference between a traditional (i.e., boring) conference, wherein participants don’t really participate, simply listen, and a conference in which everyone potentially can become an organizer, speaker,and  presenter.

BarCamp Central Asia 2009 will be gathering together the “Kaznet” community – journalists, programmers, bloggers, web-designers, web-developers, etc., for three days during which they will be making presentations, sharing interests, exchanging experiences, actively and mutually listening, and co-creating the projects.

The conference is intended to have a worldwide effect, and already, we’re accomplishing that goal.  The conference’s website has been active for only one week, but according to Google Analytics, more than 700 visitors from 31 countries have already visited it.

The registration for participants starts on March, 19th, 2009, at www.barcampkz.net

Participation is free for private person.

Reposted from neweurasia’s homebase.

I’ve become a spreadsheet master…

…and by extension, I’ve also become a terrible blogger.  Since my promotion to managing editor of neweurasia, when I’m not busy dealing with human resource crises, budgetary disasters, deadline catastrophes, and preparing to relocate to Europe, I’ve been working to completely reboot the way our organization manages its data. Google Docs has become my new best friend, especially its rip-off Excel spreadsheets.  You should see some of the wizardry I’ve been pulling off!

So, it’s been nigh two months since I last posted; this blog’s beginning to feel a bit mummified.  Lord knows, I’m afraid to look at my stats.  They’re probably grinning like a pharonic death’s head — How forlorn and forsaken hast thou left thy digital soul. But fear not, O precious blog, forsooth a resurrection is imminent… and hopefully one with a little more editorial focus…