http://www.beerandblog.com Bloggers helping bloggers over beers Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:50:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Please take this 4th of July to spend with your friends and family. You can still enjoy beer and maybe even blog, but you should def watch something blow up. It's the American way. Photo by rasone from Flickr http://www.beerandblog.com/no-beer-and-blog-this-friday-in-observance-of-independence-day/ Well folks, this is the 3rd and final wave of Vidoopers coming through town. And, after the lengthy line at Plan B, we're heading back to the Green Dragon. At this session @kveton is going to facilitate discussion around Twitter conspiracy theories. I apologize for the late official posting on this, ... http://www.beerandblog.com/twitter-conspiracy-theories-vidoops-3rd-and-final-sponsored-meet-up-back-at-the-green-dragon/ When you host an event at a specific place for several months and you decide to move it, you should give people ample notice. But, somehow it got to be Friday and I'm just now posting about tonight's Beer and Blog. We're going to try a new venue out because ... http://www.beerandblog.com/trying-new-location-round-2-of-vidoopers-special-announcement-oh-my/ This meet up marks the first of 3 Beer and Blogs that will be sponsored by Vidoop. They are sponsoring these sessions because they have a grip of Vidoop employees coming to Portland over the next few weeks and would like to show them a good time. How rad ... http://www.beerandblog.com/diso-as-explained-by-kveton-and-mtrichardson-sponsored-by-vidoop/ Last week, I was chatting with @grigs saying that I was interested in him hosting a session on mobile blogging. Jason let me know that he was hot on another topic at the moment and wondered if I would let him speak on it. Not being one to pigeon hole ... http://www.beerandblog.com/make-your-blog-load-fast-and-help-the-environment-at-the-same-time/ Does Twitter really offer any special service? Have we been duped into using their clogged tubes for no good reason? This is the question we plan to explore tomorrow as we attempt to replicate Twitter's functionality with our blogs and some free online services. More than a few people ... http://www.beerandblog.com/work-session-challenge-can-we-replace-twitter-with-our-blogs/ Just like the good 'ol days of Beer and Blog, tonight we're going to have a work session. I know I've been wanting to launch my new blog for some time now, so I plan to be working on it. If you have some updates, plugins, or design work that ... http://www.beerandblog.com/work-session-tonight/ Since summer has decided to show up before spring, we're going to celebrate the glowing orb in the sky by having a BBQ in the park. @brampitoyo and his Saturday creative group are joining us at Alberta Park today. I'll bring a grill and some charcoal, you bring something to ... http://www.beerandblog.com/beer-and-blog-goes-to-the-park/ Most of us probably check on our traffic stats for our blogs. But, how many of us actually know how to drill down on our stats to find the valuable information that could direct our blogging activities? This session is going to explore techniques for mining your traffic stats on ... http://www.beerandblog.com/sifting-through-your-taffic-stats-for-value/ This Friday will be the awesomely fun Portland BarCamp. Most of the Beer and Bloggers will be attending this event, which starts at 6pm. So, rather than try to sprint to BarCamp from the Green Dragon, we're going to roll up some sleeves and help the Legion of Tech ... http://www.beerandblog.com/help-out-legion-of-tech-set-up-for-barcamp/