Collective Detective Blog Archives

Meet CD at BarCampDC!

Collective Detective will be in attendance at BarCampDC2 on October 18^th. We’re also happy to be one of the many great organizations sponsoring the event. If you are not familiar with BarCamps and how they work, check out the BarCamp Wikipedia page.

We’re big on communities at CD; always have been. BarCamps provide a great opportunity to talk about the issues, challenges, opportunities and interests facing developers, start-ups, and fans of social and tech media from the DC, VA, MD, and PA area.

If you’ll be there, we’re looking forward to meeting you. If you’re not, look for a BarCamp event near you.

Please Vote for our SXSW Panels

Voting begins today for the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival Panels in Austin, Texas. We are fortunate enough to be involved with total of three sessions which have been accepted for the Panel Picker. Voting goes through Friday, August 29th; we need your help!

If you’re not a SXSW alum, please fill out a quick sign-up over at the SXSW Panel Picker. You don’t have to be planning to attend SXSW (although you totally should) to sign-up and vote. It only takes a minute!

Please vote for our panels and any other topics you find interesting. There are a lot of great session ideas worth checking out. If you’ll be in Austin next March, we’d love to meet-up with you!

Here are the panels we’re involved with:

• “You Need to De-Geek the Geek, Geek!“
• “Friends And Following Has Flaws“
• “Whereify Your Content; Gain an Audience of Millions“

Thank you for the support!

…And We’re Back

So Collective Detective has been on a bit of a hiatus for awhile while we’ve been focused on past, current, future and non-CD specific projects. It’s funny how that happens. Our upcoming project Collectivus started like a movie that’s been in development hell for years. It starts out as a “what if,” on a drive somewhere or over a lunch in a deli with bad service — some notes are made. The idea sits in a notebook for awhile while and you go off to work on another project. You pick at it now and then. Make changes; make rewrites. The time wasn’t right, right people weren’t available, no financing, your agent fled to Tijuana with your life savings. The usual. The idea was good and strong, it just needed to wait for the pixels to align.

So now is the beginning of that time. We’re kinda-sorta, halfway in the middle of starting to tell you about our next ambitious project. We’re going to chronicle what we can here, use our social networks to help us find the right talent and resources to help us along and we’ll all go on a journey together.

So to our old friends: It’s nice to talk to you all again. To those of you wandering over for the first time: Welcome to Collective Detective. To the search engine bots: Happy Indexing!

More soon!