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OPEN Adventures in Entrepreneurship

By on October 18, 2005 in Uncategorized

This evening Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin companies, will be speaking at the American Express OPEN Adventures in Entrepreneurship Conference in Miami, Florida:

OPEN Adventures in Entrepreneurship is an offline/online investigation into the challenges and solutions confronting entrepreneurs as they strive to develop and grow their businesses. The event begins in Miami, with a discussion led by Sir Richard Branson and sponsored by OPEN, intended to emphasize the importance of innovation and inspiration as key ingredients in successful Entrepreneurship.

Richard Branson

The event will then continue online for three additional days in the form of a small business blog event. The hope is that the discussion sparked by the offline event will continue and develop in the online space, reaching and impacting many more participants beyond the initial in-person gathering.

I’ve been hired, with two other veteran business bloggers (Anita Cambell of Small Business Trends, and Rob May of BusinessPundit) to be a part of the online blogging event.

During the live portion of the conference, Sir Richard Branson will be interviewed by Jane Pauley, in Miami, Florida. Both Anita and Rob are there and are hoping to be able to ask him a question. Earlier this week, Anita and Rob queried their readers for input.

Following the live event, the three of us will spend the rest of the week responding to Branson’s talk and writing about a variety of entrepreneurship topics relevant to the theme of the event. Clay Shirky, a professor and blogging pioneer, will be serving as our moderator for the online discussion.

While the online conference is in progress, you’ll see the following disclaimers at the bottom of relevant posts:

“The opinions expressed on this site do not necessarily reflect those of American Express. If you post on the blogs, be aware that any personal information you post will be viewable by anybody reading the blogs.”

“The facilitator and bloggers for this event have been compensated for their time by OPEN from American Express.”

Although I am being compensated for my blogging, the opinions expressed are my own, and are not being influenced by American Express.

Technorati: OPEN Adventures

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,208 posts to the site.

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  • Nathan

    Will there be audio or video available of the interview? Preferably for free?

  • http://www.chrisheuer.com/ Chris Heuer

    What is the primary tag you are having people use to talk about this event? This has always been a key understanding of tagging and social media which has not really been used well until recently. Ken Yarmosh of Technosight did Blogoposium1, an online aggregation of people talking about Blogs (which also included Web 2.0 related items). Most tech events out here on the West Coast announce their own tags (we did Web2point1 recently and are now working on BrainJams. It would be great if I could subscribe to a tag feed from technorati to follow the conversation rather than having to subscribe to your comments.

  • http://www.homeofficevoice.com Martin (HomeOfficeVoice)

    Congratulations Dane … sounds like an exciting project, one that I’ll be watching closely.

    Another way for bloggers to earn an income other than click-thru ads.

    Would love to interview you afterwards and profile it at my blog, to get your experiences from the whole effort.

    And good on AMEX for doing this.

  • http://www.business-opportunities.biz Dane

    There will definitely be a transcript, but I don’t know about video or audio.

  • http://www.business-opportunities.biz Dane

    Chris,

    I’m tagging my posts with OPEN Adventures. I’ve asked the other participants to do the same.

  • Nathan

    Didn’t anyone record any audio?

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  • http://www.business-opportunities.biz Dane

    I’ve posted a transcript of the event here.

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  • http://beam.to/ppl-info PPL-4Ever

    Definately an article I plan on reading as time permits. I just hope to be able to keep up with it since my time appears to be a bit short these days.

    By the way, since I am a bit new to the Blog world, is it correct to call these articles or is there another title for them that is more fitting?

    Thanks for sharing!

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