{"id":593,"date":"2006-04-13T13:12:53","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T18:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=593"},"modified":"2006-04-13T21:20:10","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T02:20:10","slug":"toronto-area-tech-biz-groundswell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2006\/04\/13\/toronto-area-tech-biz-groundswell\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto area tech biz groundswell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few months, a flurry of <a href=\"http:\/\/barcamp.org\/TorCamp\">BarCamp<\/a>s, <a href=\"http:\/\/barcamp.org\/TorCampDemoCamp3\">DemoCamp<\/a>s and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitepro.com\/?p=59\">Schmooze<\/a>s, along with <a href=\"http:\/\/isummit.ca\">iSummit<\/a> and the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meshconference.com\/\">Mesh<\/a> have convinced me that there is a huge amount of energy building in Toronto where tech and business circles intersect, and it&#8217;s happening largely from the bottom up among startups and entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/webdesign.meetup.com\/25\/\">The Greater Toronto Web Centric Meetup Group<\/a>, which is a well-organized group amalgamated from 17 smaller <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\">Meetup<\/a> groups.  My subject matter was fairly technically intense for a general group, but I found to my surprise that there was a widely-expressed appetite for technical information about current internet development trends.  People and organizations aren&#8217;t just messing about with this stuff, they really want to make use of it.<\/p>\n<p>I reconnected with long-time friend and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skippingdot.net\/\">erstwhile blogger<\/a> Shane McChesney, who runs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nooro.com\">Nooro<\/a>, a top-tier internet research and online survey company.  As someone who has already built a successful company (and note that he not only survived but thrived during the lean years without the support of the kind of buzz that&#8217;s happening now), I&#8217;m encouraging Shane to rekindle his blogging fire to inspire the grassroots to follow his example.  I plan to convince Shane to come along to Dave Forde&#8217;s next <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitepro.com\/?p=59\">Shoeless Schmooze<\/a> on Thu Apr 20.  Come along and have a blab with him, his positive energy is infectious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few months, a flurry of BarCamps, DemoCamps and Schmoozes, along with iSummit and the upcoming Mesh have convinced me that there is a huge amount of energy building in Toronto where tech and business circles intersect, and it&#8217;s happening largely from the bottom up among startups and entrepreneurs. Last night I spoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ajax","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}