Tomorrow is the big day – and boy am I excited. Yep, tomorrow is BarcampAfrica hosted by the venerable Google at their Mountain View headquarters and in part sponsored by the ever wonderful Abraham & Harrison.
Africa has a special place in my heart – it is my home – I was raised in South Africa and travel back every year (thanks to the great job at Abraham & Harrison where I get to work from anywhere in world).
My wife, baby and I head to the beautiful coast of Cape Town for the sun, sand and fun!!For those of you who have never heard of Barcamp it is basically a gathering of people that come together around a common topic sharing their thoughts and ideas.
It is known as a “unconference” because the participants really drive the agenda – they create breakout sessions that have been organically created and decided upon – on the day and at the event.
The goal of this particular Barcamp is to help “open up the conversation between Silicon Valley and people and opportunities in Africa.”
To really help solidify and connect this growing network of African focused people and projects. Our goal is to highlight the incredible work that is being done by Africans and how the growing network is helping to facilitate and amplify these efforts.
Abraham & Harrison stepped up and offered a sponsorship which greatly helped in helping BarcamAfrica to move forward. The fit for Abraham & Harrison was obvious – Barcamps are built around social media tools – using blogs, wiki’s, Twitter, Facebook and many other forms of social media to amplify the news and story.
These tools have been and will continue to be used to help promote the conversation on the day and for the weeks and months that follow.
This is something that Abraham & Harrison does well – we help to amplify your existence online to drive conversations and help to create conversations around subjects and topics that are of value to you and your clients.
So – it made sense for Abraham & Harrison to help promote something that uses the very tools and media that we at AH value so much.So – the event is sold out but you can still participate via our blog, Twitter.
I hope you all get a chance to check out the blog and follow along. We plan on hosting more Barcamps in the coming months in the US and on the African continent.
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