Justin Kistner

We’re growing, again! Come celebrate!

January 12 2009, 11:26pm

Last Saturday’s End Bloglessness workshops were blogtastic, were they not? A huge success, I’d say. Many, many people arrived ready to be workshopped into shape. One couple built their wedding Web site, and several business blogs went up as well. You can be sure there will be more valiant strides towards the End of Bloglessness. Oh, yes.

I’m wondering, though, how many blogs actually DID go up. Please leave a comment and let us know? (Special knuckle dap to @endlessmonkeys for his steadfast hand-holding assistance in deploying my first WordPress self-hosted installation EVER.) Here’s a panorama pictorial of the event: Furious Ending of Bloglessness Lookit all the intense blog-making! That’s my fellow Beer and Blog comrade, the Mistress of Organizer Affairs @verso herself in the back. She’s talking about connecting with people through twitter. What a whacky idea! It would be great to see everyone identified on the Flickr image. Get over there and ID yourselves, please. And onto official Portland Chapter Provost business: there’s a change of schedule. Instead of celebrating our First Birthday this Friday as planned, we’ll be doing it next week instead (January 23rd). The following day (January 24th) will be our mini job fair.

Now, I hate postponing joviality as much as you do, but it was out of necessity. Justin and Christine, Mr. and Mrs. Beer and Blog, felt compelled to celebrate their legally wedded union with a trip to Sin City. I say, what took you so long?? And it’s not all pleasure, folks. There are plans to launch the latest Beer and Blog chapter: Las Vegas. That took - what? - a day or two from Aaron Hockley’s WordCamp Las Vegas presentation entitled Beyond Beer and Blog: How Social Media Lit Up the Portland Tech Scene to inspire a chapter there. I think we’re onto something.

Come toast the latest chapter this Friday’s Beer and Blog at the Green Dragon. In preparation for next Saturday’s mini job fair, I’d like to talk to anyone with leads on businesses and organizations that are looking for employees, contract work, as well as other opportunities (like equity for work). Come find me!

And as for Justin and Christine: remember, while the cat’s away….meow!

RSVP on upcoming.org, if you are so inclined.