There are just a ton of events in July and most of them are the week of the 12th…. but the next Seattle Lunch 2.0 is the 24th (and spaces are filling fast so you need to register while you can)…. The event’s I’m looking forward to are listed below, if you have any other’s feel free to pass them along. In the meantime, I hope to see you at some of these!!

There will be a Social Media Camp on July 12th @ Paris Ballroom at Hotel Monaco (10am-4pm)

SocialMediaCamp brings together the brightest minds in Social Media with people interested in learning more about the power of Community Based Marketing. It works like this - we find some of the top local names in Blogging, Podcasting, Live Streaming, and New Media and we give them the stage - BarCamp Style - to share what they know with the world.

We’re running at least 2 tracks at each event. A beginner track (think Blogging 101), and an advanced track (think What is Social Capital - and Why Should I Care?).

If you’re interested in joining us - be sure and register using this handy Sign Up Form.

There will be a Mashable Summer Smash event following the Media Camp on July 12th @ Showbox SoDo, (7-10pm)

Only 21 more days until Mashable arrives in Seattle to kick off the U.S. Summer Tour. If you didn’t know, Pete Cashmore, Sean Aune and Karen Hartline all love coffee, which is why we’ll be ready to keep the party going all night long in Seattle where the coffee flows like water. It’s our first time in Seattle and we need to be shown how it’s done. Join us at Showbox where we’ll have food and drink, and DJ El Toro mixing things up. And don’t worry, we have a few surprises in store too.

Tickets through Eventbrite, 21+ Only

nPost is hosting a 2nd demo networking night @ Columbia City Theater on July 15th (6:30PM)

Our events are for tech entrepreneurs, VCs, and Angels to meet and mingle. Please no service providers (Real Estate agents, Brokers, etc). These events are for the tech startup community. REGISTER

The next Unified Communications User group will be July 16th (4-5:30PM)

Info still needs to be confirmed

The WTIA is also hosting an event on July 17th @ Pyramid Alehouse (5-8PM)

“Take Me Out to the Beer Garden” The Technology Industry’s Summer Celebration hosted by the Washington Technology Industry Association

Blue skies. Warm weather. Cold beer. Let’s celebrate summer (here’s to hoping) in the PNW! Mark your calendars for July 17th to stop by the Pyramid Brewery Beer Garden in Seattle for an opportunity to connect and grow with Washington’s technology leaders and professionals.

Come take a swing at Pyramid’s seasonal beers and great chow – all in a casual, networking setting. There will also be a raffle to benefit Mariners Care. Stay tuned for prizes!

For more information and to register >>

There will be a Seattle Lunch 2.0 @ Evri on July 24th (4:30-6PM)!!

Seattle Lunch 2.0 has a series of great summer events to follow up the Anniversary event in June! Evri, a pre-beta content connection engine is going to host a happy hour on July 24th!! This will be a great place for devs to talk algorithms, entrepreneurs to get talk about how their going to make money, and press to get the scoop!! From what I hear these guys have some cool secret sauce that I’m hoping to hear more about….Luckily Evri’s CEO Neil Roseman will be there talking about Evri’s product, how it works, and how we make browsing the internet more effective.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!!

RSVP: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/828879/?ps=7

If you find yourself in need of something to do this afternoon….

The First Seattle LivePitch is being put on today!! Carolynn Duncan from Funding Universe is hosting this event, there was a preview that I participated in at the Six Hour Startup conference a few weeks back and it was a blast (I finished in the top three)….

The cool thing is that if you aren’t able to attend (like myself) Gnomedex’s Chris Pirillo will be livestreaming the event at http://live.pirillo.com!! Very cool!

If you are able to attend the event details are:

• 2-3:30 pm Pacific.
• Youngstown Cultural Arts Center.
• 14 companies presenting 2 minute pitches.
• Pay at the event what it’s worth to you.
• Audience/panel will have $100 of fake money to “invest” in their favorite company, and  2 winners will be declared.

RSVP Here: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/660044

Of course if you can’t watch the stream or make it in person, nPost has a few events coming up that look interesting as well….

Golfers, wanna be golfers, or anyone that wants to hit a little ball around on a (hopefully) sunny day.  nPost is hosting a Golf Scramble (a lot more fun, so no one needs to be a golf pro to play - thanks to Josh Potter for the suggestion!) next Friday, June 27th in the late morning / early afternoon.  There is one spot open if you are interested in attending.  If we have enough interest, we can always add another Tee Time.  Feel free to register today:
Register: http://wiki.npost.com/index.php?title=NPostWiki:Golf20

nPost is also hosting a large networking event for the local startup community on Tuesday, July 15th at the Columbia City Theater.  Our events are free and bring together a strong group of entrepreneurs and investors.  For this event, we will select five companies to present and demo to attendees (1 minute pitch at the beginning of the event and will demo for the rest of the evening).  If you are interested in featuring your startup, please submit your startup.  Thanks to Silicon Valley Bank and Sun Microsystems, for making the event possible and providing the 100 free drink tickets!  Clearwire will be providing Internet access. 
Register: http://wiki.npost.com/index.php?title=NPostWiki:Seattle-event-jul

Loads of great events here!! Plus the next Northwest Unified Communications User Group meeting should be announced soon… and the next Seattle Lunch 2.0 should be announced soon…. Hope to see you around

Today is the Anniversary of the Seattle Lunch 2.0 Series!!

These lunches and happy hours started here in Seattle a year ago and have provided a wealth of knowledge, networking, and nourishment for Seattle’s technical community. I have personally met numerous entrepreneurs, developers, consultants, and service providers that have become friends and business partners. To keep up with the events you can follow my blog or register on the Seattle Lunch 2.0 wiki. Of course I’m always looking for sponsors and new people to attend from the community. Don’t hesitate to contact me about how to sponsor, co-sponsor, or just be a part of the great technical community here in Seattle!!

These lunches started with Wetpaint hosting a lunch up in their funky pioneer square loft (I hear they are hiring again too). They were joined by Eyejot & Zumobi (then ZenZui) to help cover the costs (keeping the event free to everyone) and to ensure the event was fun to attend. The event was a lot of run with Ben Elowitz, Wetpaint Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz & Trevor Foucher, Google Webmaster Team all presenting to the group.

After such a successful start last year, Zillow was joined the crowd and hosted the second lunch from their offices towering over the city. We had the pleasure of getting a presentation from Rich Barton, Zillow & John Cook, Seattle PI who talked about startups, funding, and technology in general.

Not to be outdone by the well funded startups, the third lunch was hosted by Wishpot, Snapvine, Zumobi, and nPost. Max over at Wishpot stayed up the night before cooking Lasagna for everyone and the rest of the wishpot team stayed up all night finishing their facebook app…. for the Launch at the Lunch!! Snapvine as you all know was just purchased and of course Zumobi continued their involvement and nPost started to contribute to sponsoring the lunches as well. This evening’s event is going to followed up by a nPost Pub Crawl as well!!

These lunches were now in full swing with a great community turnout. I started to hear all sorts of great things that were a result of attending the events…devs finding new jobs, companies building new partnerships, and companies being discovered through the events. Proud of how things were going and thankful to Terence, Mark, and Joseph in the valley for coming up with the idea in the first place and encouraging me to start these here in Seattle, I blazed on organizing more of these through the rest of the year….

With my newfound hobby, Cardomain.com opened their doors to the community and we got another panel discussion with Rajan Krishnamurty and Brier Dudley talking about building successful social networks. They brought in some great food and kept the nourishment side of things at a difficult level to keep up with.

Now that all sorts of startups were opening their doors to the community, and we (the community) were getting a good chance to meet the devs behind the cool companies around town to share ways of doing things and get new ideas….Adobe decided to jump in and sponsor an event. Now for being a big company, Ryan Stewart sure made adobe feel welcoming and being that we got free food and AIR demos… his job was easy.

With all of these great companies around, some of the service folks in the community wanted to contribute to the events. They had been attending since the start and didn’t want to intrude on the fun we were all having, but when you get a good services company with some interesting geeks behind them… they are more then welcome to host these kind of events. I was lucky enough to partner up with Widemile & Portent Interactive for hosting the next event in October. We got to hear about the cool Marketing things they offer and some demos of what they have done for companies in the past. Ian Lurie and Robert Bergquist ensured we all left a little smarter then when we arrived.

To follow up the October event, I partnered with Google and a my peers in Chicago to host a lunch on the same day, by the same company, in two locations!! At our local event in Kirkland John Blackburn presented and again kept the budding entrepreneurs and devs learning new cool things and enjoying free food and networking…

Heading into December was a lot of fun, F5 sponsored an event at their offices and Scott Berkun came in to talk about innovation. F5 had a huge room that we nearly filled 100+ and Scott kept us all there well after the lunch would normally have been over with his willingness to teach us what he knows. His topic was interesting for everyone and he gave away copies of his Myths of Innovation book.

To keep things on a roll in December, Avvo sponsored a great happy hour event. A few companies (including Avvo) used the holiday season event as a company Christmas party. Of course the Karma of Seattle Lunch 2.0 kicked in and Avvo received the news that their court case was dismissed during the event!!

The first event of the new year was Zumobi, again sponsoring….but this time hosting as well celebrating their successful time at CES…and finally launching their beta! We got to hear from John SanGiovanni who is one of my all time favorite speakers. Added to the great talk and experience of Zumobi….they opened up some of the time to a non-sponsor and Buzz Bruggeman of Activewords gave us a demo of his product!!

Once into the new year, the great companies just kept coming and blist hosted a post-DEMO event at their offices along with co-sponsor Silicon Valley Bank. Kevin Merritt gave an engaging demo and the devs at blist were swarmed by other devs asking for their secrets…

Of course I kept partnering with service providers and Parker Technical sponsored and brought in one of their close client’s Big Fish Games in to talk. We heard from Laurent de Segur (who was recently promoted to CTO). It was great to get some insight into the casual gaming industry and meet more of this Seattle coder sub-culture.

As each month passed, the events got harder and harder to top. I talked to company after company searching for fun companies, that had cool products, great job openings, and of course free food! Now most companies in Seattle fit this mold, so it wasn’t really as hard as I make it sound. My friends at Ontela decided to host a happy hour in April and this time we did something really cool and partnered Ontela, WSGR, and Silicon Valley Bank together to put on a great happy hour 200+ attendees…. two kegs…. two cases of wine…. Hole in the Wall BBQ…. and remote control helicopter giveaways!!

The Happy Hour event at Ontela was difficult to top, but luckily the folks over at Vholdr were up to the challenge. These guys have one of the coolest sports video cameras on the market and the social network to back it up!! They had a keg of beer and a comedian to help demo their product!! It was hilarious and by the time everyone realized what was going on, the comedian had people almost out of their seats laughing!!

Which brings us back to today… A year of events, a year of networking, hiring, partnering, and fun…. and a year of events that will be fun to try and outdo in the coming years!! We’ll be down at BlueGecko today, RSVP Here. I hope to see you there!!

It’s official now!! WaMu has a mobile banking offering, this may be old news to most…. But new news to a lot of you. With the mobile banking project off the ground and the WaMu.com engineering team in capable hands… I am going to take on some Messaging work J

If you’re one of the growing crowd who has been asking me questions about MS Exchange, RIM, Mobility, or messaging/DR/storage in general, looking for me to consult on a messaging related project, work on a book or analyst engagement, or simply looking for advice….sorry that I was slow to respond for the last few months!! The opportunity to deploy mobile banking at my favorite local bank was too cool to pass up!! The good news though? Yes, I’ll be more available to the exchange community and am looking at some interesting messaging related engagements over the next few months that I will certainly be talking about here!! One of those should be a continuation of the UC Do ers user group, focused on messaging and unified communications. If you missed the re-launch of the user group…. Don’t worry, we’ll have regular meetings organized in the near future!!

Of course I’ll still be running Seattle Lunch 2.0 and in fact have some awesome events coming up!! One of the companies that is going to be hosting, just purchased a company who previously sponsored!! Very cool to see the Seattle Lunch 2.0 network in action for employment opportunities, making/retaining important business connections, generating buzz for your business, and of course getting a free lunch!! I’ll post soon about the upcoming Happy Hour on Friday the 13^th!!

Vholdr’s lunch last month was great!! It was the friday before the Six Hour Startup Conference (which was also great)…. making last weekend a fairly good weekend for geeking out. Luckily I followed it up with a good romantic evening with the wife and I.

If you missed the Vholdr Demo it was hilarious, I must say the most entertaining demo I’ve seen yet!! I guess that is fitting for the company. The cool thing is these guys gave away one of their cameras to the crowd!!

A friend of mine Howard, was able to grab a video of the demo if you weren’t able to make it…..

Their site uses Amazon Web Services, and their camera is small and portable enough to really use anywhere.

Tonight!! nPost’s pub crawl - I’ll miss this one - unless the first stop is my house in Broadview is the first stop….

Vanessa Fox is also putting together a couple networking/learning events for devs!! Both in the Seattle area http://janeandrobot.com/page/Events.aspx. I am hoping to make the one on the 29th.

And for you east siders who keep missing Tuesday Coffee at Louisa’s there is an east side version set for 5/14 @ 8:30am!! (Tully’s @ Bella Botega in Redmond (8860 161st Ave NE, Redmond - (425) 883-0090))

Of course for all of the local Exchange and Unified Communication folks, we’re getting the band back together and are having the first PNWUCUG (Pacific Northwest Unified Communications User Group) meeting in 2008 on Wednesday May 28!! (yes MS is involved, hence the ridiculous name)

And of course…. The next Seattle Lunch 2.0 @ Vholdr!! May 30th!!

We’ve been a regular hotel these last few weeks at the Maher residence.

Two weeks ago we had my father-in-law and his current wife over for a couple nights before he made his way down to Ventura to go drive some boats around.

Last week we had the pleasure of my mother-in-law, who happens to be one of those high paid consultants that works from home…you know the ones I’m talking about….the ones where you think “We’re paying them how much? To do what?”…..well you’re paying them to do my laundry!! Thanks Ma!! All kidding aside, she is overly bright, I have seen some of her work and she spends her evenings re-writing the PMBOK, so I guess she’s one of the exceptions.

Now we’re off to a friend’s wedding this evening and have my brother-in-law staying over along with his friend so that they can do the photography for the wedding (they are budding photographers and have twice the amount of gear they probably need and are fretting over the manuals - this is really fun to see the ambition and pleasure these guys are getting out of this engagement)….and of course the wedding is later in the day today, so mother-in-law (not the one that was here last week, but father-in-law’s new wife) is staying the weekend as well to hang out with her grandsons while all of her various “children” are off hanging out at a wedding. I guess it’s at the Clise mansion, as in the family that just lost the huge $7b real estate deal in the Denny triangle in Seattle. Should be interesting to see….

Oh and did I mention Brunch tomorrow with…Robin’s high school friend who happens to be in town this weekend too? Luckily brother-in-law and his friend will have left considering our car only holds seven people….Ahh, what it’s like to marry into a rather large family with lots of frequent flyer miles….

All said….I have nothing to complain about though, I think a B&B ownership could definitely fly as a revenue source. Now is there a good web 2.0 B&B finder out there?

Alright, I have to admit…. I laughed out loud when I heard about this… but it looks like it’s for a great cause and of course the Bean folks always put on good events!!

So here’s the deal, Bean is putting on an 80s Prom to benenfit TGAL at Spitfire. Ann Vu is the main organizer of the event on May 17th from 9pm to 1am. The event looks like fun and is for a good cause which is always a good thing. There are usually a good number of Seattle young professionals at the Bean events so the people to meet should be good as well.

Despite the burning desire to get some Hammer pants and go to this thing… I have a release that weekend so will be knee deep in ensuring all of you can access your money on Monday morning. I know, lame excuse….but I am planning on going to the nPost Pub Crawl the night before (5/16 @ 5:30)!! No better way to prepare for a release than to grab Robin and go drinking with the local tech community!! Thanks for putting these on Nathan! Of course nPost will be twittering the next location and I’m sure I will be twittering too…

If you really want to get crazy….I hear NetRiver is hosting folks at their datacenter with kegs of Guiness!!

Modern marketing material and user interface designs leverage decades of study on human sensation and perception. From the refinement of color choices to be more visually pleasing, to relational object design so every fresh pair of eyes can correctly perceive the intentions of the creator. These visual cues have seemingly advanced rapidly in recent years; this is in part due to technological advances and in part due to the understanding of how every day interactions can be improved by the findings of psychological studies.

My current favorite marketing play on the senses is McDonalds. Their play on human perception is annoying if you’re Starbucks, clever if you’re McDonalds, and well…indefinable as a consumer. The trick that McDonalds is using is to use visual cues that are perceivable as a Starbucks advertisement (if you put a green logo on those brown banner ads there would be no question about who was selling coffee). The play is interesting and we certainly wouldn’t have ads like this if it weren’t for all those psychologists discovering how we perceive colors, print, designs, and of course illusions….

As a consumer, you notice the normal colors that you would see coming from your third place, your standard coffee shop, and you wonder, ”What does my coffee shop have to tell me on this ad?”. As you commit to seeing what they are going to tell you, your eyes focus on the white lettering where you quickly see a line that is targeted directly at the recent annoyance that you had with your coffee shop…the price! Now your mind wonders, where else would I go that would offer a similar environment to my coffee shop (after all the color scheme and steaming cup of coffee is the same)? Where would I go that would offer the same tasty coffee at a cheaper price? Are they around here? Oh there it is in the corner, hidden away from sight, hmm….McDonalds? Well it is free coffee today….Why not?

As for user interface design, well that is changing much slower than marketing materials. However, simple things like making controls for settings analogous to old standard controls that used to exist on mechanical machines (like radios). This makes the interaction much easier for the end user who, upon seeing a round dial on a musical device can easily make the analogy that if they turn or somehow spin the dial, the volume will go up, or the “channel” will change. These are simple principles that are based on how we, in or civilized society, have learned to perceive objects. If we were born in a less civilized country this concept would be foreign to us and the perception that the iPod has a dial on the front would not be made. As we move closer to a global economy and share more culture, designs that are based on the psychology of perception will continue to gain more traction. Humans in any society will be able to make those analogies and it will get no longer be just the civilized world. Of course until that happens….interface and interaction designers continue to have a HUGE market to leverage and decades of research to base it on so they won’t slow down anytime soon.

The next time you’re thinking about how to customize the feeling that you give to people either as a marketing ploy or to make your offering easier to use, a long deep look at the research that has taken place over the last couple of decades about simple perceptions, sensations, and sociological influences would probably be in order….or at least finding someone who has :)

I’m sure this has been asked by all sorts of people all the time, but when I googled the title of this post the first thing I got was… Twitter’s blog?!

Well fine then :p

I guess I’ll have to share all the groovy pics of the Seattle Lunch 2.0s that have been happening around here. The last one (last friday for those not in the loop), was over at Ontela and was an absolute Smash!! Thanks to Rob over there at Ontela for doing all the work to make sure we could completely take over the place with our 200+ attendees!! Also thanks to Dan for sharing his company with us…. and of course Geir over at Silicon Valley Bank and Craig over at WSGR for sponsoring and everyone else who mentioned the event!! Btw, if you’re interested in sponsoring a future event - please let me know!!

Btw, there are pics of the blist lunch up as well they are just before the pics of my family trip to Ireland…. Also you can view them in the Seattle Lunch 2.0 Flickr Group. Btw, Beth - how do I turn my flickr group into a zumobi square?

You read that right!! Seattle Lunch 2.0 @ Parker has announced the speaker!! Big Fish Games is going to come in and chat with the community about the cool gaming industry that happens to have a HUGE hub here in Seattle!!

With Parker hosting, we will be lucky to be close enough to the international district to have some Yummy Asian food….Some of the great crowd from that end of the city may even show up (amazon, watchguard, etc)

If the event is anything like the last event at blist…..

The talk will be great…. and the crowd will be even greater!!!

Come check out the details to the event (I also got more seats opened up if you didnt’ get registered the first time!!)

For more details be sure to follow me on twitter and follow the lunch 2.0 feed!!

Yeah!! More giveaways!! I have a couple copies of my friend Joel Stidley’s Windows PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 that arrived today…. I did the technical edit on the book and had a lot of fun using my powershell skills for some good. I haven’t seen too many reviews, but Shay Israel has a small review on $cript Fanatic. Of course I don’t need all the books and know there are still plenty of Exchange readers on my blog.

So I’ve got two of these books to giveaway!!

Since I am lacking creativity tonight, how about I am going to take suggestions on how to give these things away. I previously partnered with Manning press to do the powershell script contest which was fun, but what else would be interesting for a giveaway? Post your ideas in the comments or send them to me separately - if there is enough interest I’ll give both away on the blog, if there isn’t enough I’ll give one away here and one away in person….

Don’t forget to sign up for http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/410291/?ps=6!! The list is almost full and the event is still a few weeks out….

This looks like it’s going to be a great event (good food, speakers, beer/wine, possibly t-shirts, etc)!!

They are launching next week on the 29th, so the event on February 15th is very well timed to check out what they are doing - http://blog.blist.com/index.php/2008/01/18/238-pm/
 

Hope to see you there!!

This guy I know started asking around about the Seattle Tech community and everyone started pouring out of the woodwork!! So did the VCs!! Of course there are a lot of interesting companies around and there has been a great buzz in the Seattle area waiting to really start showing off to the rest of the world our secrets. The usual suspects of funding, developers, and the love of technology are the drivers, and of course Seattle is doing things a little differently. You’ll start to see a lot more of the community getting together and showing off what we really have going on…. Like the Startup Weekend that I keep for getting to post about :)

Of course Zumobi is hosting a lunch 2.0 tomorrow (with door prizes, free tacos, free beer, and of course a lot of cool seattle tech community to meet)!! Unfortunately one Seattle Lunch 2.0 isn’t enough so blist is hosting an event in February…and the one after that is almost planned too! We still need Microsoft to host, and despite Google’s open house this week…. Google Seattle still needs to host one (as does Amazon and Real)!! The more big seattle tech companies to foot the bill the better…. so long as the small shops get a chance to show off their goods (even Buzz over at Activewords who has a cool product and no money to spend on events like this is going to show us his product and giveaway some licenses tomorrow)!!

In case you missed the announcement, Zumobi will be hosting the next Seattle Lunch 2.0 event on Friday, January 18th @ 11:30am… get the beta and sign up for the event!!

Wow, What a happy hour!! The folks over at Avvo know what they are doing!! The event was great… free food, free beer, free wine…. and a ton of Seattle’s tech community enjoying Avvo’s space. Of course Mark Britton carefully planned the dismissal of a major lawsuit against Avvo to coincide with the event. Added a little more reason to celebrate and a little more reason to say…. “Hah, web based companies these days have thought through what they are doing before starting a company”…. A much better feeling to have and a bit of a win for entering new market spaces for everyone.

My favorite comment of Mark’s (if I remember it correctly)….. “If your customers primary means for finding information today is the yellow pages, you probably have a customer base out there” That’s a reasonable quote, of course he qualified it with all the usual other important things to feed the company, like finding good business partners, finding good models to make money, and using good technology.

They space they have is huge!! They have loads of room to grow in their office space near Macy’s!! Of course they have ~1100 sq ft to sublet if your interested. Of course I tried out the Avvo Answers and got a same day reply both times!! In case your not familiar with it, the Avvo Answers is a place anyone can go and get general legal advice (not binding, etc). I asked a basic question about legal requirements for taking my kids to Ireland, I am hoping to have a good answer soon!!

There are a few more Lunches in the works and a few more ways to get involved. Check out the http://Seattle.Lunch20.com wiki to stay in the loop!!

In case you missed the Lunch at F5 earlier this month, there is a video that made it up to the F5 Devcentral site!!

Enjoy the video

The spots are mostly filled so if you are coming, you should go sign up today.

I hope to see you there!!

Wow, F5 really knows how to put on a party!! Of course they held back on the keg which would have been a nice addition (I guess we’ll have to go check out Avvo’s happy hour in a couple weeks for that though).

The room was great, pool table, pinball machines, etc…. and Scott Berkun was insanely riveting!! No one wanted to leave the room!! I guess everyone knows I’m all about the free promotion and Scott Berkun has my recomendation. He was engaging, funny, and extremely knowledgeable. The crowd was as usual intently involved in the conversation and we all definitely walked out of the room full and smarter. Of course a few of the free books he was giving away were great too! In fact, I already started reading The Myths of Innovation and I’m having a hard time putting it down (with it being under 200 pages I’m sure to have it done soon anyway).

Of course with all the excitement, the ability to take pictures again (coming soon), and a great community around here…. I got to announce the Seattle Lunch 2.0 Happy Hour @ Avvo!! This should be a great event, and one I wouldn’t want to miss! The limit on people is high again and there will be plenty of free food & drinks (so if your on a budget, why not make this event your small startup’s holiday party?!) Of course Avvo’s Mark Britton will be speaking which should be great to hear!

The invite is already up on upcoming.org and there are more details on the wiki!!

Yeah!! Lunch 2.0 is happening today!! At the usual time 11:30am to 1pm.

The Lunches continue despite Google not allowing me to take pictures at the Google Lunch 2.0…. F5 will be hosting lunch this week and the esteemed Scott Berkun will be talking for FREE!!! He will be giving a great talk on innovation….

Title: The myths of innovation
Description: This short, fun, interactive talk debunks innovation and creative thinking myths, and offers true stories from innovation history that will help you take creative risks today - bring your innovation and creative thinking questions. (Loosely based on the best selling book, The Myths of Innovation).

We are definitely lucky to have him come talk and if you make it, I’m sure you’ll enjoy the talk.

F5
401 Elliott Avenue West
Seattle, Washington 98119

There will be free pizza in addition to the great talk and I hear a group of the F5 devs are going to join us for some conversations as well!

If you haven’t registered yet, there are still a few seats open….

For parking details:

There is a limited amount of for-fee parking available in the F5 parking garage. In the event that the garage is full, there is additional street-parking available to the east of Elliott Avenue on the north and south sides of Harrison Street.

Or take the bus…

http://transit.metrokc.gov/tops/bus/schedules/s024_0_.html

http://transit.metrokc.gov/tops/bus/schedules/s033_0_.html
 
Event Location:
When arriving at 401 Elliott, we will be meeting in the F5 Game Room located on the 1st Floor (street level). The elevators show F5 on the 4th Floor which is the F5 lobby. Disregard this and simply go to the 1st Floor. There will be signs showing you where to go from there.