Wonderosity

I attended Ignite Seattle last night and, overall, had a good time. The “pre-event” first hour was a social mixer, involving creating a a bridge with popsicle sticks and glue guns. We had1/2 an hour and it had to support the weight of one of your team members. Here was my team “troubled waters”…

Unfortunately, we were amongst the ~25% whose bridges didn’t hold our weight. Bummer, I’m sure we were cheated, somehow. (:
Here, in my opinion, was the heftiest bridge of the bunch…
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The main part of the evening was hearing 5 minute presentations from Seattlites related to their various projects. You can see a list of all the projects at the Ignite Seattle site. Here are some of my favorites from the evening:

• The one I was most excited about was “Reality All Starz” –a site where you and others dream up challenges, vote on the # of points they’re worth, then if you or others complete the challenge –you provide evidence (writing, pictures, video, etc) and others vote on how many points you really deserve. Anyone who is familiar with my QuestCast podcast “Your dreams and goals gone public and challenged with a quest” will realize why this concept was exciting to me. I briefly talked with the presenter and founder, Peter Brown, and hope to talk with (perhaps collaborate somehow?) him more later.
• Buster Mcleod also talked about achieving goals and about the dilemma we often experience when our motivation doesn’t quite match our desires (thus we “want to want to” dosomething). His solution: go public. Again, this is similar to what I was thinking with the QuestCast –by having your goals and dreams ‘gone public’ –we have more accountability, support and we have also linked the specific want with our universal human want for respect, for ‘creds’ (remind me of the book “Magic Kingdom”.) Anyway, Buster is planning on starting a techy arts center in belltown -downtown Seattle.
• DorkBot –”doing cool things with electricty” -I liked the presenter’s fun, free spirit and it looks like past events reflected her spirit.
• Stuart Maxwell, thenewbig.com, a friend a fellow podcaster, always has fresh and inspiring things to say and challenged us to think differently in a number of ways.
• Thats all I feel like writing about here, and there is much more detailed info at the Ignite Seattle site.

Tags: wonderosity, geekingoutloud, igniteseattle, realityallstarz, dorkbot, secondlife, 19pings, bustermcleod

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