Today is CREATE South Donate/Social Media Day

CREATE South is coming to town for our second annual conference. It was a blast last year, and I highly recommend it. It'll be bigger and better this time....

This is recopied from an email from my buddy Dave Slusher, who is co-chair of CREATE South....

Thanks to everyone for expressing interest in the CREATE South
conference. This year it will be held April 25, 2009 in Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina. We are expanding from our first year in both
programming options and in the space we'll have available to us. The
conference will be held at the Horry-Georgetown Technical College
facilities on the old Air Force Base - a few blocks from Market
Commons and about half a mile from the beach. More information is
always available at http://www.createsouth.org/

The conference registration is free for the attendees and we plan to
always keep it that way. If you haven't already registered for this
year, please do at http://www.createsouth.org/register.php so that we
can accurately plan for the size of the turnout.

That said we have set aside today, March 19th 2009 as "Donate Day."
We are still looking for donors and sponsors to help us meet the costs
of presenting it. If you can spare a few dollars, there is a donate
button in the sidebar of every page on our website. If your company
would be interested in sponsoring the conference or you know of one
that might, please drop a note to sponsors@createsouth.org .

Also, today in honor of March Madness we are putting on the "full
court press" for getting the word out about the conference. If you
have a blog, we'd appreciate greatly if you'd post a short note
referencing the conference. Likewise, for those of you who are users
of Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed or any other social media sites,
please make a quick post about the conference. Our goal is to get as
many interested people in the room for mutual education and
edification. We'd love it if no interested party misses out just
because they didn't know about it.

Thanks to everyone for making 2008 a great conference and we expect
even better for 2009. Over the next few days we'll be posting
information about our programming. Keep watching the main site and our
blog at http://blog.createsouth.org/ for more updated information.

Best to everyone in 2009.

Dave Slusher, co-chair, dslusher@gmail.com

CREATE South

The second annual CREATE South is coming up April 25th.

This is the official communication from Andre Pope of CREATE South....

Calling all friends of CREATE South – www.createsouth.org – Today is the day that you get to play a major part in CREATE South 2009! We are launching a donation drive and social media blitz for the continuing success of CREATE South. We are asking for you to take a moment and donate whatever you can towards preserving the tradition of our grassroots art and technology conference.

We have set-up a donation button on the front of the website ( www.createsouth.org ) to make it easy to donate! Whatever you can afford to give will be of great service. After your donation, if you could help spread the word that would be even better. Pass along this email to all your contacts in your address book. Blog, Twitter, FaceBook, FriendFeed whatever it is that you do to help get the word out. The more people we can get involved the better. To make it a little easier there is even a little Twitter donate button to help you pass the word!

If you haven’t done so take the time to register for this year’s conference. Just go to http://www.createsouth.org/register.php and fill out the form!

We look forward to seeing you April 25, 2009!

Waiting

Here's a picture I call "Waiting". I found this in the bowels of my archives. This is done in the old Paint program.....

CREATE SOUTH CONFERENCE

The Grand Strand Bloggers are proudly hosting the CREATE SOUTH New Media Conference April 19th, 2008 from 9AM-5PM.

CREATE is an acronym. It stands for Carolina Regional Exposition of Art Technology, and Education.

We are up and running. Registration is free and you can do so at the home page HERE.

Here is my buddy Dave Slusher's take on the expo. I scraped this from his blog. I hope you don't mind Dave, but you said it so well.....

CreateSouth, New Media Conference in Myrtle Beach April 19th

Posted on March 14, 2008
Filed Under conferences, myrtlebeach |

OK kids, registration for the CreateSouth conference is open for business! The conference is April 19th from 9 to 5 PM in downtown Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. All attendees are invited, whether you live and breath new media or are interested but slightly frightened by it. If you are a professional journalist or a politician or a pastor or a musician and want to learn how to make new media work in your career, this is for you. If you have wanted to blog or podcast or videoblog but aren’t sure where to start, this is for you. The goal of this conference is to get the newbies and the wizards together in the same room, talking and hanging out and sharing meals. Our focus is hands on demonstration and we are assembling the program right now to reflect that. The idea of the conference is that if there is some project you want to do but haven’t tackled because the learning curve is too high, you should walk out of the conference knowing where to start and maybe with an email address or three of people that can help you if you get into trouble.

Everyone is welcome that wants to travel to Myrtle Beach in April, but our primary geographic target is the southeast. If you live in the Carolinas or Georgia or Tennessee and are interested, tell your friends, carpool and share a room, come and have a big time with us. We picked April because it is the part of the year when hotels are still considered “out of season” and thus cheaper but the weather has a strong probability of being beautiful. You can bring your whole family. Those who are interested can attend the conference and for those who aren’t, the beach is two blocks away from the site. There is more miniature golf than you can shake a tiny putter at, water parks and movie theaters and all kind of attractions within a few miles of the conference.

We really need a push from the blogosphere to get the word out. Please link to the CreateSouth website, talk it up, tell your friends, suggest programming items you’d like to experience and volunteer to present ones that you know. This is a grassroots conference organized by the Grand Strand blogging community so there is no large organization behind it, just a few individuals who want to make this happen. My unofficial description is that “the Grand Strand Bloggers are throwing themselves a party and seeing who dances.” Come dance with us, friends.

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We hope to see you here!

Hanging with Phu

This picture was taken by my friend Phu Graham. He was kind enough to take a few shots of me yesterday as I played him an advance copy of my CD, Well Enough Alone.

It was fantastic to hang out for a while and listen to music and shoot the breeze....

Phu is one hell of an artist. Check out his stuff.