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Hazelnut Tech Talk is a collaboration between Amber Case and Bram Pitoyo.

Our seventh episode was recorded the evening after Bear and Blog and features Steven Walling, Wikipedia Extraordinaire and chicken tender who works with Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham at Portland’s AboutUs.org, wherein we talked about using Wiki as an academic source (and getting an A for it), Recent Changes Camp 2009, The Wikipedia Manual of Style, breakfast, lunch and dinner, sleeping under the stars and by the river, guinea pigs, User Bots, and trees, snakes, owls and grapevines

Attending Portland networking/social events is one of the best ways to meet innovative locals, learn cool things, and get new clients/collaborators for various projects. A weekly list of Portland Tech/Networking events has been requested of me multiple times, and this list is the culmination of those requests. I hope it benefits you in as many ways as possible!

This week, Bram Pitoyo and I will be attending all of these events. Bram’s reviews can always be found on his blog, Link En Fuego, soon after each event. I’ll be reviewing/live-tweeting from the Internet Strategy Forum as well as doing some experimental analytics on it.

We hope to see you soon!

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Upcoming PDX Tech Events for Wednesday, July 16th, to Friday, July 25th

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Wednesday, July 16th:

Noon to 2 Pm:

LUNCH 2.0 at SOUK
See http://siliconflorist.com for details.

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5:30 Pm

Join SEMpdx & pdxMindShare at this networking and educational event. Meet SEMpdx board members, network with other Web professionals, and learn more about membership and sponsorship opportunities.

Who: Open to all - interested in search engine / Web marketing
What: Networking event
When: Wednesday July 16, 5:30 PM ? PM
Where: Paddy’s Bar & Grill
Why: networking, meet SEMpdx, learn about membership & benefits
How much?: Free, no host bar
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6:30 Pm

Writing For Web for Fun and Profit.
(At the Kennedy School - Ask me for details)

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8:30 Pm

Tweetup with Charlene Li (from Forrester Research, a keynote speaker at Internet Strategy Forums). This means drinking.

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/903763

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Thursday, July 17th:

8:30Am-5:00Pm

Internet Strategy Forum - Portland, OR

6Pm:

ISF Afterparty (Contact me for details).

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Thursday, July 17th:

6:00 Pm

SECP Meetup/Portland Freelancer’s Meetup. NE Portland at the Stamp Society Building. $10. (Ask me for details).

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Friday, July 18th:

9Am-10Am:

Morning Meetings: Marketing (Recurring)
[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/634899/ ] Come into CubeSpace between 9 and 10 a.m. on weekdays to chat for free with the professional-in-residence about your needs.
The Friday topic is: Marketing, including web 2.0 and branding

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4Pm

Beer and Blog at the Green Dragon! Yay!
928 SE 9th Ave
Portland, OR 97214
Generally at 4Pm

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Monday 21st:

6:30Pm-8:00Pm

Legion of Talk (Sponsored by Legion of Tech)
Mark Shuttleworth

Mark will be speaking out Ubuntu, the community-developed the open source operating system he founded, as well as his travels in space. Mark was the second man ever to travel to space on a private space craft!

McMenamins Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Doors open 5:30pm (come early, have dinner & hang out with us before the talk)

This one is going to be HUGE.
Register and find out more at www.LegionOfTech.org

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Tuesday, July 22nd:

6Pm:

PANEL DISCUSSION #2 - PDXplore PNCA - 6:00 Pm. “In The Round: Collective Leadership” featuring mayor-elect Sam Adams, Metro president David Bragdon, Hillsboro mayor Tom Hughes, Portland planning director Gil Kelley, and City of Gresham executive manager Alice Rouyere.

A transcript of the PANEL DISCUSSION #1 is here.

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Tuesday, July 22nd:

6Pm:

PDX Net Tuesday July - New Tools for the Nonprofit Sector
AboutUs.org - 107 SE Washington St. Suite 520

This event is usually really fun, has beer, and then a sort of discussion of things.

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See you there!

Your Friendly Neighborhood Cyborg Anthropologist

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If you’d like more information on any of these events, or would like to contact the organizers about workshops, don’t hesitate to E-mail me. Please feel free to forward this to anyone who might benefit from it.

I’d love to see you on Twitter. You can follow me at: http://twitter.com/caseorganic

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Tonight, my friends Heather and Max and I went to the WikiWednesday Open House event at Portland’s AboutUs.org. We met Wiki Inventor Ward Cunningham.

The event consisted of a networking session followed by a conference in critical thinking led by Ward. We discussed the current manifestation of Wikipedia, the future of the Wiki, and it’s limitations. The notes I took there will form the basis of a new series of posts and a few papers.

After the conference, Ward talked about AOL, the endless September of the Internet. Before the net was open to the masses, college students used to have to deal with the new waves of college students that were just learning to use the Internet every September. After a month or so, the Freshmen would learn how to use the Internet correctly and everyone would continue to improve the system as a whole.

Then AOL arrived on the scene. The September never ended. Not everyone ever figured out how to use the web like the generations of college students before them. Thus, AOL became termed as the “endless September”.