Yes, I’m a SWirgin

This year, I finally get to see the hype first hand. I will be going to SxSW Interactive starting this Friday. Last year I watched the overflow of Information spill out from the event from my office back here in Northern Virginia and said to one of my contract customers, “I have to go next year!” Too late to put together a panel or a talk (I would have done one on Community Management), I am going this year mostly to network and sink in as many talks and panels as I can. But the point is I AM GOING!

Thanking my lucky stars for much of the pre-planning information this year, as  I am working out much of my trip as I can in advance with the help of some non-SWirgins. I am flying on the Big BWI Blogger Boeing on Friday morning (Flight 2262) with at least 6 other twitter/bloggers. If you are also on this flight, let us know so you can join the group. I am also looking to either carpool or take public transportation to the airport.

To get prepared, I have been doing a lot of reading of my trusted friends and experts who have done this thing before. Aaron Brazell aka @Technosailor has a nice write up about what to expect, some considerations, and even packing tips.

Andrew Mager (@mager) from ZDnet has a guide he put together with his picks for sessions to attend, as well as parties and extras.

And if you are looking for parties and other thing related to the event, you might want to check out the growing list over at http://sxsw.razorfish.com/

I have also signed up for my.sxsw.com. The official social networking site of the entire conference. It was developed by my good friends over at the social collective (follow @bucchere for more details). We used this networking software before for WIREICES last fall and they have improved it a lot since our experience and hopefully with our feedback.

Mostly I will be hanging out with other SWirgins Amy (@sengseng) and Steve (@robotchampion). We’ll be at Amy’s salon on Spying 2.0 (see below) if anyone wants to come say hello.

If there are any other tips or things I should know about please do not hesitate to let me know. I will be trying to twitter and live blog as much as I can during the event, but if my laptop becomes an anchor, there might be more twittering and less blogging until after the event.

I haven’t finished picking out my interested events and some are subject to chance, since some are at the exact same time as others I am interested in, but right now here is a brief list:

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Get me to GovSec …

The Expo and Conference is one week away and the big question is, will the Goverati be there? Even though it seems like March is the month of the BarCamp, please don’t let this event skip your radar. The organizers of the event have been reaching out to get their target audience using social media tools such as Facebook, LinkedIN, and Twitter. This event is the perfect meat to the sandwich that was Transparency Camp last week and the upcoming Government 2.0 Camp at the end of the month.

The event is March 11-12, 2009 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. As a part of the bigger FOSE 2009 conference this is the part of the event you should focus on if you are someone with interests as my own with Transparency and Collaboration in Government. If you use Intellipedia, you might want to think about attending. First responders and those in Government security fields might not be reading my blog exactly, but if you know of someone who fits the bill and should attend, please pass along my blog and the link to the conference to encourage them to go. It is free to attend the expo for both GovSec and FOSE 2009 and if you have already registered for FOSE don’t sweat it, because you are covered for this event as well.

Louis Freeh, Former Director of the FBI

The former Director of the FBI, Louis Freeh will be the Keynote speaker of this event discussing the Convergence of Homeland Security on Thursday, March 12 at 9am. Mr. Freeh tenure as Director was during several major events that I can recall that brought national attention to the FBI. He was the director at the time of the infamous Robert Hanssen espionage case. Personally I am very eager to hear him speak about his time in office and his thoughts on the progression of the FBI and Homeland Security in a post 9/11 world.

Other sessions I am interested in are New Technologies for Interoperability, Cyber Security and Information Sharing , Terrorism and Information Technology and the panel moderated by Christoper Dorobek of The Daily Debrief on Federal News Radio.

Register today, and pass on to your colleagues.

FOSE 2009
March 10-12, 2009

Registration: 8:00AM – 4:00PM
Keynote Sessions: 9:00AM – 10:00AM
Expo: 10:00AM – 4:00PM

Walter E. Washington Convention Center
801 Mount Vernon Place NW
Washington, DC 20001

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Enterprise 2.0 for Government Event Feeler

I wanted to put out a feeler for a conference I am planning on behalf of my company Navstar, Inc to happen sometime in June October* (as soon as I get a venue confirmed). The conference is already in planning mode, in fact I am heading to a dinner shortly to work on this in more details.

Target Audience and Goal

I would like the target audience to be High Level Government Employees with decision making capabilities, to the likes of Vivek Kundra and other Government CIOs, CTOs, and their staff. Ideally the end customer would be high level decision makers in Federal and Local DC Metro Government, as this will be somewhere inside the DC-Metro area. However, general participation is being planned for transparency and openness.

The goal of the event is to really make aware of other Government members of projects that highlight efficiency, collaboration, cost-effectiveness, and reusability. I would love to extend this to be bigger to include more areas of Government, but since this is the first time event, I would like to keep it manageable in the first run, with hopes that this turns into a bigger and annual event.

Style

I am looking to do the conference in the style of TED in which speakers/presenters can showcase their work/idea/thought/project with a 15-20 minute slot time. In addition, would be able to showcase their stuff in an exhibit hall for more of a deep dive.

I am also looking to see if there would be interest in a barcamp, if this was a multi-day event. Right now, I am thinking it would be 1-2 days depending on the submissions to present.

Content

This event is not to compete, but to continue and expand upon connections and networking achieved from the Government 2.0 Camp and will be promoting as well as soliciting presenters/speakers from that and other events. In general, we are not so much focusing on contractor solutions but tools and ideas that are in place now that are connecting the enterprise to meet the points I stated above.

As I mentioned, this would fit the specific purpose of communicating to decision makers and other programs of best practices, successes, and failures.

Sharing and virtual participation:

I was thinking I would run a live channel on mogulus with a twitter hashtag (#e20gov) and feed running on the program. I’m planning to keep this unclassified and transparent.

If you are interested in helping out (volunteering), presenting, or sharing ideas. I would love to hear from you.

You can reply here or follow me @immunity on twitter

I originally posted this feeler on Govloop and have reposted this here for maximum exposure and discussion. Please feel to ask me any questions about the event if it has not been covered already.

* Changed date to October to prevent June conference fatigued and to not compete with Enterprise 2.0 in Boston, in which I might attend.

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Speaking and Publications

In addition to the posts contained on this site, I do appear elsewhere on the web and in public. Government 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 are topics I write and speak about often in other publications and conferences. For where I will be speaking next or conferences I will be attending, check out the events page.

Opportunities

Schedule Andrea to speak at your event by emailing vindictiveimmunity at gmail. com.

You can also view my profile at Geekspeakr, a site for women speakers.

Speaking Topics

• Government 2.0
• Enterprise 2.0
• Web 2.0
• Community Management
• Creating Communities with Wikis and Blogs
• Women in Technology

Training and Consulting

• Setting up your Internal Collaboration Network
• Establishing your personal brand
• Changing existing work processes to include social software

If you would like to see more of my additional work, you can check out the following links.

Items in Delicious tagged with my name: http://delicious.com/tag/andreabaker

Guest Editorials:

• ZDNet: The (Government 2.0) revolution should be televised
• ZDNet: You Were Never 1.0, but get ready for Enterprise 2.0
• ZDNet: Government as a dialogue: Will the Gov 2.0 Summit contribute?

News Articles:

• Intellipedia’s next act

Blogs about me or my work:

• Just the Guy We Need for Government 2.0
• Why Nerds and Geeks Have Taken Over the World
• Social Governance Won’t Come Easy
• Apps for Democracy
• Traction Software’s Third Annual Traction User Group Meeting – October 6 & 7
• When Intelligence Officers Get Social…
• Social Computing Journal
  

Video

• Blogtropolus at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008

Radio

• WFED – Federal News Radio – The Daily Debrief with Chris Dorobek and Amy Morris
  • More on the possible Obama CTO

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Reinventing Myself

Hello World. I recently decided that in order to clearly demonstrate who I am and efficiently communicate with the rest of the world about all aspects of my transparent life, that I should consolidate my blog/web presence to one location. This is where you, my colleagues and friends can go to find my opinion on emerging tech, community building and best practices of Enterprise 2.0 in Government.

I am also available to speak at your event or conference and you can find me on GeekSpeakr.com. You can see the about me page for my official bio and the events page for past and upcoming events I will be either attending or speaking. Feel free to engage with me. I enjoy conversations, listening to others experience in business and government and would welcome a discussion.

Additionally, aside from business and technology, I will also include on this site my personal experiences with music and sports. The things that make me happy in my free time. Please feel free to follow me on twitter @immunity.

Over the next week, you will see more content as I add past blog posts and information from other aspects of where I have contributed on the social web. Going forward, I will continue to post vibrant content from both professional and personal aspects of my life.

One last thing to note, please remember, this site represents only me and not of my employer or any professional association, this also includes my twitter stream and any other social network I link to from this site, except where identified as professional.

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Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008 Day 1

Yesterday and throughout the week, myself and robotchampion (who is also live blogging) are in San Francisco attending the web2.0 expo.

The conference is being pulled all together by the social networking site crowdvine. This is my second time using crowdvine as my guide through a conference and this time it is dramatically better. I was able to guestimate my schedule of panels and sessions for the week as well as fill out a little information about me and link all my rss feeds that I will be generating about the conference, to include twitter.

I am tagging everything in twitter with the hashtag #web20expo and following @w2e on twitter. I have uploaded and started a group on Flickr (Web2.0Expo08 San Francisco) for this event for all my pictures and hopefully others will contribute to as well.

We will also be posting video podcasts and vignettes throughout the week, so stay tuned to this blog for more information and links. I already posted a video last night of The Unicorn at the Digg Party last night on youtube, check it out. Thanks to Kevin Rose and the people at Digg for an awesome get together.

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