Girl Geeks Toronto: Quantified Self. =)
Hashtag: #girlgeeksto
Update 2012-11-15: Here’s the video recap!
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In Sean O’Donovan’s talk on managing content for lead generation, he shared tips on mapping your content to the customer’s buying journey, repurposing what you have, and making it easier for people to find the information through metacontent and packaging. If you’re having someone else develop your content, it’s a good idea to ask them to develop the promotional materials for it too.
Ben Harrison and Scott Armstrong shared some of their experiences and opened the floor up for Q&A. It was interesting to hear about the marketing side of things.
If you like this, you might also want to check out my sketchnotes from the previous torontob2b meetup:
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To find out about the next #torontob2b event, check out Brainrider’s events page.
Enjoy!
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William Mougayar shared lessons learned from serial entrepreneurship at the Third Tuesday Toronto meetup. He also demoed his recently funded startup, engag.io, which promises to be a social inbox for comments and conversations across different websites.
My thoughts after the talk:
)Were you there or have you attended other talks by William Mougayar? Have you used Engagio? (Seems to be down at the moment, pity.)
One nifty thing about Third Tuesday Toronto is that they fly speakers in and they coordinate with meetups in other cities to get the maximum coverage. Join the meetup to find out about upcoming events.
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If you like this, you might also like my other sketches. I like turning presentations and books into quick, easy-to-review images. Enjoy!
Here’s the text from the image to improve people’s ability to search for it:
William Mougayar @ Third Tuesday Toronto
@wmougayar @engagio
See also Paul Graham’s chart
Stages of a startup
Clear vision or Blurry vision (more realistic)
When Christopher Columbus set sail, he didn’t Google America.
Social Capital
Got to know people through blogs
I’ve made 3,000 comments on Fred Wilson’s blog
Got asked to moderate Fred Wilson’s blog
8 weeks to a minimum viable product
Demo of engagio
-inbox
-My contacts
-Person’s profile (one place to follow)
-Sites
Neat, would like to try this out
5 Lessons
1. Be wary of selling enterprise software
Very difficult to sell to a large company when you’re a startup
2. Have an original (but simple) idea
3. Don’t believe your own
4. Relationships don’t matter. Trusted relationships matter
5. Don’t quit trying
Fragmentation of the social web
Commenting is important = Potential relationships
Value in the conversations
Bet a beat story about startups & alcohol from blog conversation
Replying
Sharing/Linking/Liking
Monitoring/Listening
Signal
Noise
Online advocacy is on the rise
Q&A
Platform? Rails, MySQL, Solr, Twitter Bootstrap
Multiple users? Next week
Yelp? Maybe if API
Equentia? Some ideas for discovery. Get to 100K users first.
How did you get away with looking like Gmail? Haven’t gotten a call from Google yet.
Business? Focusing on end-users.
Funding priorities for spending?
Engineering & marketing
product development users
Building more social features into the product
Summarizing comments?
Maybe talk offline after.
Pivot reactions?
Excited. Still had other clients, but could move on.
Personal profile?
Automatically populated, can be edited.
Profile resolution?
Merging profiles with authentication
Mobile app? HTML5
Track other sites? In road map, may have to create plugin.
Business model? Get to look users first also, business intelligence/analytics.
Notes: SachaChua.com
Twitter: @sachac
March 27, 2012
Mark Kuznicki reminded me to get #lifecampto out the door. =)
Details and sign-ups at lifecampto.eventbrite.com – initial blog post
The end of summer so let's have a been (or two) and hook up with some
friends and make some new ones…http://profectio.com/forde/2006/08/19/shoeless-schmooze-august-31st/
August 31st, 6:00 PM tillÃ…Â .
We had a great turn out the previous times this was held. Lots of great
conversations and business connections, and all around good times were had!
So let's do it one more time!!I've gone back to the management at Shoeless Joe's and they're going to give
us a deal on beer ($3.50) and throw in some food.
A great environment to talk about what's going on in the technology,
marketing & PR and all things that impact it, or just kick back and have a
drink and talk what ever on your mind they even throw some finger food.Where / When:
- Shoeless Joe's – 401 King Street W (King St. & Spadina Ave) (Map)
- August 31st
What to bring:
- Lots of business cards
- Loonies – we've got $3.25 beer & wine (not including tax & tip)
- Lots of great ideas and things to talk about
Who will be there:
This is open to anyone to anyone who's looking to network, socialize,
schmooze and connect with other business minded people from any sectors; but
chances are you fit into technology, marketing, public relations in some way
shape or form.What next:
Would love to know if you can make it  hit me up on email or leave a
comment on the blog or reply to the email if you can make it.Dave Forde
Profectio – Bringing together Canada's connected community –
www.profectio.com
Personal Blog – www.profectio.com/forde
E-Mail from DAVE FORDE
As Gabriel Mansour went to all the trouble of e-mailing, texting, and
calling me to make sure I got to TorCHI, I thought it would be a good
idea to go—and it certainly was! I had a lot of fun conversations
about interpersonal communication (heh!), Tupperware, and other
things. Good stuff!