Event wrapup: Barcamp DC2

Bar Camps are exciting. Partly, because they are unlike the cocktail type settings of other networking events and partly, beacuase of the “unconference” type setup. Barcamp DC2 was held at the fabulous campus of Centre for Digital Arts, Boston Universiy in the upscale Georgetown area.

Saturday morning 8′oclock is not the best time to attend a conference - right? Well, there were 200 people who showed up. With five simultaneous sessions going on, there were a myriad of topics people talked about, and there was a lot to learn. Our favorites:

• Apps for democracy: an open innovation challenge for programmers to make useful facebook/iphone apps using data provided by the DC government. $20k in prizes! Peter Corbett from Istrategylabs tells more about the contest in the interview here.
• Business of Building webapps:Jared Goralnick, founder of Awayfind, gave a very informative talk on how to pitch to the bloggers, how to buid a community and what pitfalls to avoid as a startup when it comes to marketing.
• CSpan goes web2.0: Best talk of the day. Jvi and Leslie from Jess3/New Media Strategies gave an elaborate talk on how their team executed a full fledged social media campaign for CSpan television in less than three weeks. More details and a small interview can be found here.
• Other interesting sessions included: Iphone development Jam Session, Social Media Community Building: politics in DC and beyond,Design 101 for non designers, SSL client authentication and a lot more.

In a nutshell, the event kicked ass and Diditz is proud to co-sponsor it. We were able to interview some cool folks at the event, and a detailed coverage of the BarCamp can be found here.

Thank You,

The Diditz team

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