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Posted on October 4, 2010 by Chris Houchens

There are lots of reasons that you should come to Barcamp Nashville. But personally, I think you should come for me! I’ll be leading a session on how brands can tap into the online zeitgeist. I really enjoyed speaking at…

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called it

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Chris Houchens

Yesterday, in my post about the media and the Nashville floods, I suggested that maybe the lack of national media attention was due to the lag between the tuned-in minority and the traditional media. Turns out I was right. Today…

Tagged with: journalism, nashville, opryland
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you missed it

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Chris Houchens

If your only source of news is national media, you may not realize that a U.S. city was heavily damaged this weekend. Yes, the Gulf oil disaster should be the top story and the Times Square car bomb attempt was…

Tagged with: citizen journalism, journalism, nashville, twitter
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Reflections on Barcamp Nashville

Posted on August 20, 2007 by Chris Houchens

After taking some time to absorb the experience and decompress, here are a few scattered thoughts on Barcamp Nashville. There’s been a healthy discussion going on (like here and here) about how it wasn’t a “real barcamp”. While I tend…

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Barcamp Nashville

Posted on August 18, 2007 by Chris Houchens

Barcamp Nashville has been interesting…..with neat speakers, great people, and a warm room (in more ways than one). I had planned to liveblog while I was here, but I’ve had some wi-fi trouble. 60 has been posting and the twitter…

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