As I have mentioned, this morning I attended a bloggers breakfast with Jason Calacanis. @jasoncalacanis
Jason brought out his Mac Book Air, and we were streaming live on his
We had a great discussion which was lots of fun. There were fortunes of people watching live at the time and chatting in the chat room too. Let me know what you think.
Here it is:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/428395
As mentioned in my previous post, CeBIT Day 1, I met Jason Calacanis and Tyler Crowley at CeBIT and they invited me to their hotel for a bloggers breakfast.
It was incredible to be invited to the breakfast.
The breakfast was a very casual event where we just chilled, socialized, networked and learned about each other. Jason was also streaming live on his UStream. We took some great videos and I will post those up in separate posts.
Some of the people at the breakfast included:
I arrived nice and early, and spent most of the morning at the breakfast. It was a really great experience, with so much knowledge sharing and lots of fun.
As you can see, most people are very active on twitter. Remember to follow me too. @JoshAnstey
I was lucky to be asked to speak at the ACS@Skills Alley at CeBIT
My presentation was about being an entrepreneur, and how to get started as an entrepreneur. I covered a variety of areas from the startup roadmap, to social media and networking and personal branding.
The talk was really great and I really enjoyed passing on the knowledge. The audience response was great and there were some really great questions and discussions after the event.
If you would like me to speak at your event, please click the speaking page and contact me.
Yesterday was the first day of CeBIT Australia 2008.
I spent most of the day walking around checking out the show and the many businesses exhibiting. It was quite interesting and it is always good to see the new technology.
I have to be honest, I didn’t find too much of the technology that new or innovative. This is probably because we have so much access to the latest innovation via the web, but still it would have been good to see some more innovation. Hopefully we will see more next year.
I went to a talk about Social Networking, and how to use this for customer relationship management. This was really interesting, and beneficial. It’s amazing how social networking has developed. I also met up with two of my twitter buddies, @Alegrya & @RichardGiles.
I was hanging out in the ‘bloggerzone’, and met Jason Calacanis and Tyler Crowley from Mahalo. See below for a bio.
It was so great to meet Jason & Tyler. We had a good chat about the web, Australia’s IT industry and a few other topics of interest. They then invited me to have breakfast with them the following morning. I will discuss this in the next post.
Overall, the first day of CeBIT was interesting, and the highlight was definitely meeting Jason Calacanis & Tyler Crowley.
Jason Calacanis Bio:
Jason Calacanis is an internet entrepreneur and blogger. He is now the CEO of Mahalo and is one of the leaders in the internet world. He founded Weblogs inc. which was then bought by AOL, and was later appointed the General Manager of Netscape. Other ventures of Jason include Sequoia Capital which has been a driving force behind so many of the tech and web businesses we know so well today. Jason has also co-founded TechCrunch40, which was later changed to TechCrunch50 with Michael Arrington from TechCrunch. Jason is definitely one of the web world leaders.
Jason Calacanis in Wikipedia
On Tuesday 20th May till Thursday 22nd May, CeBIT Australia will be held at the Sydney Convention and Exhition Center.
CeBIT Australia is Australasias leading Information & Communications Technology (ICT) event for the business marketplace and covers all areas of IT including software & services, hardware, VOPI, IP Comms. The event is targeted at C-level executives, and other IT professionals. CeBIT Australia is a combination of a trade show and a conference.
In 2007, over the 3 day event, there were 33041 visitors and it has been growing each year.
I have been asked to speak at the Australian Computer Society (ACS) Skills Alley - branded ACS@Skills Alley at CeBIT 2008.
I am really looking forward to my presentation. My presentation is titled “Be an Entrepreneur”.
I will be presenting about entrepreneurs, how to bring out the entrepreneur inside you, and the roadmap to starting a business. I will also be covering the best way to use social media and web 2.0 to network, increase your personal branding and develop your business or start-up.
The talk is going to be great and I hope the attendees will gain a lot and learn valuable information.
If you are in Sydney, or will be attending CeBIT, get in touch with me and please come along to the talk. It would be great to meet you.
The details for the presentation are:
Be An Entrepreneur - Josh Anstey
Wednesday 21st May 2008
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Mezzanine Level, Hall 4
Sydney Convention and Exhition Center
CeBIT Australia
If you have any questions about it, feel free to reply to this post, send me an email or send me a message on Twitter. @JoshAnstey
I look forward to hearing your feedback, and meeting you at the pre
Earlier this week I presented at the Australian Business Week National Awards lunch.
I presented about my experiences participating in Australian Business Week, and how I have used the skills learned develop my career path.
The presentation went really well and the response was great.
I am looking forward to doing more presentations in the future. If you would like me to be a speaker at your event, click the Speaker tab at the top.
I have been asked to speak at the Australian Business Week (ABW) National Awards ceremony which is on Monday 12th May.
The Australian Business Week competition was formed in 1992, with the aim of creating a way for the business community to help the younger generation in appreciating business. The week involves groups of students running a simulated business, each assuming an executive role, having guest speakers, and also creating and marketing a product they have created.
Australian Busniess Week is now run in many schools throughout Australia and thousands of students each year participate.
The National Awards is a ceremony to congratulate those that have shown great ability in the way they have run their business throughout the week.
My talk will be about my experiences of Australian Business Week quite some time ago, and how that has benefited me in the years since and how it has had a great impact on my business career and entrepreneurial determination.
I am really looking forward to speaking at the awards.
I’ll keep you posted with how it all goes.
Josh
I read an article today on the Ninemsn Money Website called, ‘Are you addicted to your Blackberry?’
The article definitely criticises society’s addiction to what has been termed a ‘CrackBerry’. It lists the many ways that the BlackBerry addiction has ‘interfered’ and changed our lives.
The BlackBerry is just one of the many pieces of technology that we are now fortunate enough to have that enhance our ‘Connected’ lives. They have allowed us to take that step forward in being always connected.
Now don’t get me wrong, I agree that if it gets to the stage that you are interrupting social arrangements, meals and discussions to respond to your email, or any of the other definitions of why you would be addicted in the article, then you have taken it a bit far.
But look at the benefits. Productivity has increased allowing business to be conducted away from the office, people can find information on the go, search for directions when they are lost, and are freer if anything to go out, because they don’t have to sit at their computer all day waiting for that one email that requires an immediate response.
I think rather than criticizing the huge amount of people that are using BlackBerry’s and the amount of time spent on them, we should be encouraging people to embrace the technology. All too often we hear of people complain that Generation Y and young children spend too much time sitting in front of the computer. Enabling mobile devices with internet connection removes this desire to sit in front of the computer all day long. It encourages people to leave the screen and head outside, go for a walk and socialise with others.
The article is very interesting, and has lots of information for both points of view, but I think we all know that the technology is here to stay and will continue to improve.
So if you are addicted to your BlackBerry, make sure you try control it in some ways and set your self some rules or boundaries such as:
• Don’t respond to emails during conversations with people or at meals unless it is necessary or urgent
• Draw a line between what is family & friends time and what is BlackBerry time
• Every once and a while, leave it at home when you go out.
Remember, if you didn’t have it people would have to wait for you to get home to your computer to respond to an email, so just because you have a BlackBerry, doesn’t mean you have to get to that email straight away.
I am 100% in favour of BlackBerry’s and think they are a really great invention. But like anything else, remember to use them in moderation.
If you have a BlackBerry, let us know your thoughts on this. It would be great to hear your opinion on whether or not you are addicted to your BlackBerry.
Related post: iPhone or BlackBerry?
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Mark Cohen tagged me with this meme. It is quite fun. Here is how this meme works… Enjoy!
The ground rules for the meme are simple. Here they are…
1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
2. People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules.
3. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
4. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
Little known facts about Josh:
Hope you enjoyed that. Now for the tagging! I am tagging:
• ProBlogger – Darren Rowse
• Guy Kawasaki
• Jim “The Net Fool”
• Terence Chang
• Chris Brogan
• Scott Bradley
• Dan Schawbel
• Mari Smith
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Welcome ProBlogger Readers
Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger has run a project on Twitter. He collected the best post titles for blogs in March.
I submitted my post, ‘Lessons learned from a stand up comedian’ and he added it to his list. Click here to read the list ‘Re-Tweeted - Top Post Titles’.
So to all the ProBlogger readers, Welcome to my blog.
Thanks so much Darren!
Check out ProBlogger and my post on ‘Lessons learned from a stand up comedian’
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