BizCamp Craigavon

Posted by on May 10, 2010 in business, entrepreneurship, networking, news and events | 12 comments

I attended BizCamp Craigavon last Saturday, after negotiating a few dozen roundabouts, between Lurgan and Craigavon, with Jacqueline McGonigle (from WhatsOnNI) frantically scouring GoogleMaps for inspiration.  BizCamp Craigavon is an unConference, a phenomenon I’ve blogged about before, in The Rise of the Unconference. The previous post both defines and raves in equal measure....

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The Rise of the unConference

Posted by on Mar 1, 2010 in business, entrepreneurship, networking, news and events | 7 comments

unConferences have been breaking onto the business scene in Northern Ireland for a few years now, but came to my notice only in 2009.  (I’m having light palpitations after starting a sentence with a small letter, but all for the sake of informing the business public of Northern Ireland…) BizCamp Belfast is one such species.  What is an unConference?  Cool and trendy?  Anarchy?...

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