Boot Camp wraps
– posted June 12th, 2009 by Elizabeth McGuane No comments
3 days, 22 workshops, and nearly 100 happy attendees later, we’re quietly recovering from Boot Camp 09.
We’d like to say a huge thank you to all who attended, and everyone who helped us make this the best Boot Camp it could be.
That includes our Future Now speakers — our open seminar on Wednesday afternoon.
They were:
- Lars Hemming Jorgensen, chief creative officer at Story Worldwide. He talked about the changing relationship between advertising and advertisers, and that it’s time for the former to change with latter. He showed us some advertising campaigns he and his company created, the most exciting one, from Agent Provacateur.
- Damien Mulley of Mulley.net. He gave us some guidelines for business blogging and social networking. Missed it? Lucky for you, he shares them all on his own site (one of his guidelines is giving away information).
- Mike Brennan, director of RateMyArea.com. He talked about his own site and how he planned his location-based services online and the importance of crowd sourcing and community.
- Our very own John Wood. He introduced ‘design thinking’ and how it’s a better way of solving problems. It was a subtle call for designers to rule the world (or just your business).
Charity, Cocktails, and the iQ prize
Later on Wednesday evening, we held our Après Boot charity auction, where we raised more than €1500 for Barnardos.
Wednesday was a pretty big night, actually: it also marked the announcement of the iQ Prize shortlist — (Silicon Republic were there to report on it too).
We’re pretty sure this is our most successful Boot Camp ever — and not just by the numbers (though we’d more courses and more attendees than ever this year!).
We also know it by the great feedback we got from our delegates — not to mention the great feeling we got from giving something back to charity, and giving props to 8 of the most promising entrepreneurial ideas we’ve heard in a long time. (Stay tuned to hear more about the iQ Prize soon).
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