Inza Coffee (formerly known as Common Ground Coffee House)
8658 E Shea Blvd # 1, Scottsdale, AZ
(480) 222-4870
From 6-8pm but not officially starting until 6:30pm.
James Archer of Forty Media will be speaking. He may not be the best bowler (me neither, James B. gets that award) but he’s a great speaker. James spoke at SXSW as part of the “Starting Small: Web Business for the Rest of Us” panel and you should definitely listen to the podcast of that. As always I look forward to talking with everyone again and hopefully I’ll get to meet a few new faces.
One of the new faces I want to meet is Andrew. Andrew is a fellow Random Shapes member and he says he will probably go but is unsure. Everyone go yell at him and tell him he needs to …
Refresh Phoenix is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of Internet developers in the Phoenix Metropolitan area.
…SXSW Interactive Festival is ground zero for the world’s most creative web developers, designers, bloggers, wireless innovators and new media entrepreneurs.
The best thing about [the Refresh meetings] is that their are so many cool people to talk with and they all know a lot more then me.
Its (SXSW) not about the conference, its about the community, its about those you talk to, its about those you participate with, its about those who you think of being so great and after talking to them realizing they are dealing/working through the same problems you have.
Over all will I be back, yes I will. If …
- March 20, 2006
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Step 1 – Make something cool.
Step 2 – Tell people about it.
Refresh Phoenix was yesterday and I left with the greatest feeling of motivation and drive that I need to really make Random Shapes into what I want it to be. I have all the resources I need for the network to be great, I just need to use them correctly. Refresh Phoenix is so incredible because it combines all these different types of people together. Many of the Refreshers have really cool ideas and if all these different people worked together on their ideas they could make some of the coolest stuff ever, and not just on the web.
Grid7 wants to help those people with cool ideas get started on their projects. Grid7 is a company that “helps you put your big ideas in motion by …
So much has happened since the last Refresh meeting that I feel like I missed a month somewhere. The March Refresh Phoenix meeting is tomorrow and the guys from Grid7 will be giving a presentation. The meeting will be held at Inza Coffee. It’s the same place it just has a new name and a new owner.
For those people who went to the last meeting, do you remember the discussion we had about Google and Amazon and how they know everything? Take a look at this. Doesn’t that fit perfectly with what we talked about. Weird huh?
Since the last Refresh the cool guys at 30 Second Rule started the Refreshing Cities website to link all the sprouting Refresh groups together. All it took to get the Refresh movement really spreading was a post from someone …
For those living in or near Phoenix that drive on the Loop 101 you’ve seen the new cameras in between 90th Street and Scottsdale Road. Up until today speeders received only warnings but now anyone going 11 miles over the speed limit can start to expect fines. I warned Refreshers a week before the February meeting that the cameras were being installed but tickets haven’t been given out until today.
For me the traffic is backed up enough when I drive on the 101 that the cameras don’t bother me but for other Refreshers in the Phoenix area this could be annoying. Yeah, there may be less accidents but traffic will be slower now. If you use the 101 to go to work just make sure you leave the house a few minutes earlier and drive cautiously! You don’t want …