Local Conversations

Last week Local Conversations had a chance to interview Tara Hunt (@missrogue on twitter) while she was in Raleigh, NC for MyNC Camp and a few other projects. Tara’s blog is called Horsepigcow. For those who don’t know MissRogue, I had chance to interview her on career as a marketing consulting for online communities, her […]

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Local Conversations had a chance to interview Gwen Bell from Tech Stars while on an East Coast network swing. Gwen who attended UNC has traveled from Carrboro/Chapel Hill, to Boulder Colorado, back to Carrboro and now back to Boulder Colorado to work for Tech Stars. Gwen who also represents Colorado startups and I had a […]

A few weeks ago I was able to attend one of NC State’s “Leadership in Technology” Executive Speakers Series. The topic was “The Power of Corporate Culture” with guest speaker Tom Mendoza of NetApp (http://www.netapp.com).
After the session I was able to chat with Tom on how he values success, his thoughts on starting a […]

I have been pondering this question for sometime. As I have been more active on twitter and more conversations are happening there than this blog(that’s going to change soon though). Out of all the new micro-blogging sites, they seemed to have started a wave of new micro-conversations too. Some blogs have become more of a […]

If you haven’t heard of citizen or community journalism take a look at http://carrborocommons.org. Local Conversations talks with UNC student and community journalist Katie Spencer on how blogs plays a role with starting http://carrborocommons.org, how local communities feel being apart of reporting news to generate content and some of the outcomes of hyper-local reporting in […]