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Here are a few interesting notes from the opening sessions: * Jeff Bezos * a better question than “what’s changing in the next five years” is “what is going to be the SAME over the next five or ten years?” because that allows them to build a sturdy business. * he talked

I have to duplicate this entire post here. It’s brilliant. Thanks Seth for the post [http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/11/when_to_start.html]. I filed this under Business AND Life Lessons. * The best time to start is when you’ve got enough money in the

30 days of Sustainability is once again happening in Vancouver. This year it runs from April 22 – May 21, 2007. I highly recommend that people go check out the temporary site [http://www.30daysofsustainability.com] and sign up for updates. The full site will launch sometime in the next few

Many of you know that I was on the selection committee for “Why Office 2.0 Matters [http://www.undertheradarblog.com/under_the_radar_conference.html]” – a one day conference being organized by the Dealmaker Media [http://www.dealmakermedia.com/] team in SF. The one day session will look at

I am signed up to race with a friend of mine for this year’s BC Bike Race [http://www.sevenbikerace.com], a 450-500km, 7 day stage race on mountain bikes that goes from Victoria to Whistler from July 1st to July 7th. We put together a blog so that

Every time I read this I go off into fits of laughter. Having spent fifteen years now doing project management on one thing or another, I can relate to this very deeply. Sometimes Scott Adams really nails it. [http://www.troyangrignon.com/legacy_images/dilbertsteamingpileoffailure.gif]

“This is an A to B conversation, so C you later.”

Over the past month and a couple of conversations, I have had the opportunity to speak with Ross Mayfield, CEO for Socialtext [http://www.socialtext.com]. Ross has very rightly pointed out that there have been major changes since July 2006 when the original posting went up and I agreed

On Monday, March 26th, 2007, Bob Chaworth-Musters and his team will once again be offering their Investor Ready 101 [http://www.angelforum.org/main.cfm?cid=77&nid=1075] course, a fantastic day of coaching for young companies to learn how to prepare their investor pitches. This is a

My friend Debbie and her team [http://www.dealmakermedia.com/team.html] at Dealmaker Media [http://www.dealmakermedia.com/index.html] are running the “ Under the Radar: Office 2.0 [http://www.undertheradarblog.com/under_the_radar_conference.html]” conference in Mountain View, CA on March 23, 2007. Aside from

I have the good fortune of speaking on March 21, 2007 at AJAXWorld and have chosen as my topic, “Maximize Your Revenue From Your Web 2.0 Venture”. The event “blurb” is here: What do you do to maximize your revenue? The options are exploding, the ecosystem is becoming more

Ean Jackson and I will be presenting on Web 2.0,  Office 2.0, and Enterprise 2.0 to a group of communications professionals at the High-Tech Communicators Exchange on April 30, 2007. Location is TBA. (Event site [http://htce.org/v1/events.htm#upcoming], [Powerpoint not yet available]) The

This is the presentation I did with Ean Jackson to the International Internet Marketing Association (IIMA) on Web 2.0 for online marketers: (Event site [http://www.iimaonline.org/events_archive/], Powerpoint file [http://www.troyangrignon.com/legacy_images/IIMA%20Pres%20r18.pdf]) [http://www.iimaonline.org/presentations/]

This is a copy of the presentation that Ean Jackson and I gave at the Fraser Valley Technology Network on May 12, 2006 titled “Web 2.0 – What is it and why should you care?” (FVTN event link [http://www.fvtn.org/index.php/site/event_archive/event_old/], Powerpoint

Thanks to Ean and Sibylle for throwing a great Club Fat Ass party – the Capilano Canyon Night Run [http://www.clubfatass.com/events/mardigras]. About 40 30 of us gathered at the William Griffin Rec Center tonight to do the run. Sibylle threw me out of the short distance group,

Let me be one of the first people to welcome my friend, Web 2.0 Manifesto [http://www.changethis.com/25.05.Web2.0] co-author, and speaking partner Ean Jackson back to the blogosphere after a couple of prior attempts. He is using his spiffy new Terapad site located at

Has anybody experimented with scarcity economies inside their reputation points systems? I wonder…. If you know of one, please let me know.

My friend Jeremy Geelan has just posted an interesting question on his blog at Sys-con where he asks: “Who Are The All-Time Heroes of i-Technology? [http://web2journal.com/read/331813.htm]” He is attempting to garner a list of approximately 150 names and then find some means to winnow them

Boy, you have to do a lot of work to escape the cloud and get near the sun when you live in Vancouver! But it was worth it. My friend Michael and I met at Seymour Mountain at 10am on Sunday morning. Even from the parking lot, we could see

Back at the beginning of July 2006, I signed up at a new gym called Crossfit [http://www.crossfit.ca] here in Vancouver. I heard about them from a friend of mine who is in the emergency response team in a municipal police force and he had recommended them based

Here is a little video I threw together about our epic snowshoe running day on Cypress Mountain yesterday. Remember to get out and enjoy winter while it’s here! Thanks Ean and Blue for a GREAT day. Hope to have many more of these before the snow leaves us again.

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Here’s a great story [http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5223711,00.html] about a dog helping to rescue Danielle Ballengee. I love these stories.

(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category [http://www.troyangrignon.com/blog/Web20].) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why (Almost) Every Company Should Stop Procrastinating and Start Blogging NOW The time for equivocation, waffling, and procrastination is done. It is time to get

(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category [http://www.troyangrignon.com/blog/Web20].) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This article was originally published in the October 2006 issue of Cutter IT Journal. For more information, please visit www.cutter.com/itjournal.html [http: