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September 1st, 2010
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A bunch of folks in Charlotte, including me, are starting a challenge today. We’re trying to drink more water. A lot more water! It’s called 60 in 60. It starts today and you can get all the info here at NoFizzCLT (@NoFizzCLT). In a nut shell, they’re asking us to drink 60 ounces of water every day for the next 60 days.
This started in May when personal trainer Bobby DeMuro (@bodemuro) asked people around here to give up soda for 30 days. I spoke to him for Health Headlines: The Show and he said the response was so good that he’d do more. So here’s the latest challenge.
A bunch of folks in Charlotte, including me, are starting a challenge today. We’re trying to drink more water. A lot more water! It’s called 60 in 60. It starts today and you can get all the info here at NoFizzCLT (@NoFizzCLT). In a nut shell, they’re asking us to drink 60 ounces of water every day for the next 60 days.
This started in May when personal trainer Bobby DeMuro (@bodemuro) asked people around here to give up soda for 30 days. I spoke to him for Health Headlines: The Show and he said the response was so good that he’d do more. So here’s the latest challenge.
#IgniteCLT was last night at The Neighborhood Theatre in the heart of NoDa. Local visionaries and tech nerds gathered to be inspired and, if you weren’t there, you missed a killer version of Happy Birthday being sung to presenter Becky Knight. It’s not often you get to hear 200+ people sing Happy Birthday to a community member. It was awesome. The whole night was fantastic.
Here are some highlights from the first iteration of Ignite Charlotte:
Jim Van Fleet (aka: Professor Sideburns) provided a killer list of resources for startups during his talk called Starting Charlotte’s Future. But,he says, “First things first, we’ve got to start talking about it!” and here are some online places Jim recommends to find people to talk with and/or get your startup funded:
Wed3,IMAF,Self-help, @cltlaunch, Area Fifteen, Startup Weekend Charlotte, meetup.com
“Webinars that don’t suck” actually didn’t suck even though it was about webinars which are possibly the bane of any office worker’s existence at some point or another in their career. @dawnladams and @techherding kept it engaging!
Dwayne Waite was by far the best dressed there, hands down. He gave a clever presentation called Setting the Record Straight: The Real Retrosexual Male.
Warren Cooksey did a fine job of educating the crowd on how to instruct their government and how to lobby well and presented some great real life pics of his work as a city council person.
Rajeev Kulkarni made everyone’s brains bubble (in a good way!) with his talk on 3D printing.
I was so excited after learning Lemonade Day is coming to Charlotte May 1st, 2011! They’re all about teaching kids entrepreneurial skills, who can’t support that?? They’re new and just getting started but here’s their twitter name: @lemonadedayclt
Dave Bell, the Camping Services Director with Charlotte YMCA and summer camp evangelist behind @campleadership, told us how camp councilors make the best, most awesome employees ever.
Local social media favorite Adam Holden-Bache wowed everyone with his great infographics during his informative talk called The Problem with Data and Statistics.
Here’s the entire speaker list, everyone who presented did an amazing job! Check it out!
Brad Panovich (@wxbrad) of WCNC posts the forecast for this weekend’s Booty Loop event on his blog.
Summary: a relief from the heat with temps in the upper 80s, small 20% chance for rain, and light wind. Great weather for cycling.
Charlotte restaurant week is here again from July 16th-25th. It is your chance to partake in some of Charlotte’s finest dining establishments. Their are 88 restaurants to choose from in all parts of Charlotte.
We sat down with Bruce Hinsley to talk about what is restaurant week and all the hidden gems people should try.
Contest
We have gift certificates to some of the hottest places during restaurant week and you can win them by sending your best picture of your favorite restaurant week dish.
Grab your phone this week while enjoying your amazing meal and snap a quick pic. Then send it to “@cltblog” on Twitter with the tag “#CRW“.
That’s it. We will check out the photos and choose our favorite and you will receive a $50 gift-card to either Blue, Providence Cafe, The Capital Grille, or Pewter Rose.
Get out those camera phones and send in the deliciousness.
*The gift certificates were provided by Charlotte Restaurant Week and they are advertising on the site.
The 6th edition of Charlotte Pecha Kucha Night went down this past Friday. Pecha Kucha Night continues to evolve and always showcases some of the best and brightest in the QC. Earlier this year, Charlotte Pecha Kucha was selected the city’s “Best Creative Gathering” in the Charlotte Magazine “Best of the Best” awards. PKN CLT is presented by Point8 Forum and, for the second time in a row, a packed Dharma Lounge hosted. Douglas Welton again served as MC for the event. Below is the list of presenters.
Natalie Bork
Crista Cammaroto
Ana Jofre
Jason Kierce
Robert Kosara
Jack Ossa
Carlos Salum
Cathy Sheafor
Wolly Vinyl
Mike Wirth
So, we CLTBlog.com folk volunteer for a lot of stuff around town if you haven’t guessed already. One thing we’re regularly involved with is Pecha Kucha (@PKNCLT) and tonight is one event we really encourage everyone in Charlotte’s creative class to attend. Tonight we’ve got presenters speaking on a wide range of topics from physics to art and design.
Point8 Forum, the organization that brought Pecha Kucha to Charlotte, gives it’s presenters, who are an eclectic, evolving hodgepodge of Charlotte’s great creative talent, the following guidelines (which I am including to help explain this very unique event):
The only restriction is the number of images (20) – and the time you have for each slide (20 seconds each). So you are limited to 6 minutes 40 seconds.
But beyond that there aren’t that many restrictions. No subject is off limits, all points of view [are] allowed. It will be you, your subject, and the audience. So, you can come to vent, promote, posture, or proselytize… (Some of the things allowed include… talking, singing, hopping around on one leg, remaining silent, looking kinda intense, letting your puppet do the talking… not that we expect you to do all/any of that. Just reminding you that these options are out there…)
The hashtag for tonight is #pknclt6. Here’s the list of speakers from the Point8 Forum website:
Natalie Bork
Crista Cammaroto
Ana Jofre
Jason Kierce
Robert Kosara
Jack Ossa
Carlos Salum
Cathy Sheafor
Wolly Vinyl
Mike Wirth
Douglas Welton will be back as our MC for Volume 6.DHARMA Lounge, 1440 South Tryon, Ste. 105, Charlotte, NC.
FRIDAY July 16, 7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Doors open at 7:00.
Admission is $5 at the door. Cash bar. The Common Market will be selling light food & snacks.
For those of you who were too late to register to attend TEDxCharlotte, this is your chance to come see a nice cross section of people who will also be presenting in September! If you’re interested in which speakers will also be presenting at TEDxCharlotte, here’s the link to their speakers list.
We hope to see you there and feel free to come say hi! I’ll be manning the Pecha Kucha newsletter sign-up table handing out buttons (don’t forget to pick one up, they’re different every time), Matt Tyndall is running the presentation visuals and local celeb/photographer James Willamor will be on hand snapping photos (He’s the official photographer)!
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On Wednesday, June 30th, the world celebrated ‘Social Media Day’ (#smday). Created and sponsored by Mashable, social media evangelists from all over the world scheduled meet-ups throughout the day to celebrate “media becoming social”.
Charlotte celebrated @AreaFifteen, a business incubator in Optimist Park, with a working lunch. Loosely formatted, local area business owners and working twitterati enjoyed lunch and conversation about how they’ve been utilizing social media in their business and personal lives.
Our local sponsors included small business owners Dwayne & John from @CharlotteAgency and Summer from @Felicitea. They readily shared how they’ve used social media to help grow their businesses; noting challenges and successes. Also in attendance were local celebrity clothing designer William Wilson @TheClothier; real estate broker @MatthewTringali of Group 15 Real Estate; and myself @thefriendraiser, social media specialist for Charlotte Mecklenburg Library @cmlibrary.
The highlight of the lunch was the introduction of a new local event, Ignite Charlotte, that asks you to “enlighten us, but make it quick” to be held on August 4th at the Neighborhood Theatre in NoDa. Previously hosted in Paris, Austin, New Orleans, and Raleigh; Charlotte’s 1st event is poised to ignite our creative community.
All in all, the first ‘Social Media Day’ we had a great lunch, learned from others, and shared insights. If you would like to become more involved in the social media scene in Charlotte, follow these hashtags to for upcoming events: #smbclt, #clttweetup or #barcampclt.
Mashable’s Pete Cashmore hopes to announce more ‘social media day’ events in the future, building off of the momentum of grassroots social media events like tweet-ups, bar camp, word camp and more.
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The Discovery Place crew have been hard at work retooling and renovating for some 18 months now, and this weekend it all wraps up with the opening of World Alive (an aquarium and rainforest exhibition) and Fantastic Frogs.
Best of all, admission is free! Saturday is for Discovery Place members only, and Sunday is open to the public.
We stopped in a little ways back to check out some of the new additions, including a few of my favorites: a 3,000 rpm gyroscope that you have to feel to believe, a couple Microsoft Surface installations, and a somewhat internet-famous multi-touch sound and music controller called a Reactable, which Discovery Place was lucky enough to snag once the creators started selling them last year.
Check out the video above for our tour, and clips of the new installations. And come on out this weekend, we’ll be there!