Alexandra Rose Coffey

Just a quick update for anyone who happens to read this blog and not follow me on Twitter. Monday morning at 5:10 AM, I became a father. My amazing wife delivered Alexandra Rose at 5 lbs, 15 oz, and 18 inches long. She was 5.5 weeks early and needs to stay in the NICU for a short while to rest up.

You can see way more pictures than you probably care to look at on my flickr page.

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Startup Weekend Indianapolis

This past weekend marked the third successful close to an Indiana-based Startup Weekend. Startup Weekend Indianapolis was a long time in coming, but in the end managed to pull together over 40 local technology and startup enthusiasts and crank out 5 viable projects/companies in 54 hours.

Starting around 5:00 PM on Friday, everyone crowded into the first floor of the ET building at the Purdue School of Engineering & Technology (sponsor) at IUPUI for check-in, pizza, and shelter from the cold. After heading over to the auditorium, introductions, sponsor thank-yous, and the pitches began.

Five projects eventually emerged (originally 4– the children’s book team split Saturday morning after some spirited discussions). Having spent most of my time in Bloomington Startup Weekend in the developers group, I wanted to float around more at this weekend and take live video and photos. Below are the logos and links to the projects created at the weekend.

It is worth noting that ShoutNow had a rather unique and awesome final presentation that involved the presenter answering his phone, recording a brief message, pasting the phone numbers of about 20 members of the audience into their application, and seconds later phones everywhere started ringing throughout the auditorium. Several people flipped on their speakerphone and you could hear the message being played back to everyone. It was a very engaging and fun effect.

Here are the 5 projects:

ShoutNow

ShoutNow
A rapid voice messaging service which allows users to instantly share voicemails with an unlimited network of contacts by placing just one phone call.

 

Pocket Storybook

Pocket Story Book (I consulted on the logo design) :)
A service to create custom children’s books which can be shared via download to the Web or iPhone, or by printing through a 3rd party book publisher.
 

 

PocketTales

Pocket Tales
Interactive children’s eBooks for the iPhone and the iPod touch. Sold through Apple’s AppStore, Pockettales’ applications convert ordinary mobile devices into fun, educational tools.

 

More Than A Meal

More Than A Meal
Bad things can happen to good people. When the unexpected happens, your friends need More Than A Meal.
 

ScatterGear

ScatterGear
A market-specific online storefront that offers goods and services to and for military personnel and their families.


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My appearance on Fox59 AM!

I’ll update this post with more commentary later. But, for now, here it is!

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Video courtesy of Fox59!

 

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How often do Indiana bloggers blog?

This is a question most bloggers wonder–especially when they are first getting started. While there are plenty of ideas on exactly how often you should blog, we wanted to know how often you actually are blogging.

As we close in on 100 bloggers having completed the 2008 Indiana Blogger Census, I thought it would be a good time to share a little bit of the data we’re collecting. As you can see from the pie chart, Hoosier bloggers are blogging much more than I had anticipated.

Read the rest of this story over at the Blog Indiana 2008 Conference blog.

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Take your blog to the next level at the first Indiana blogger conference

Blogging and Social Media ConferenceIf you’ve been waiting for a local event to help you learn more about blogging, greatly improve your blogging skills, or to effectively use blogs in your business–your wait is over! Blog Indiana 2008 is a 2-day conference on blogging and social media happening at the IUPUI Campus Center in Indianapolis. If you are new at blogging, a seasoned veteran, or want to learn the best ways to harness the power of blogging in your business, you will not want to miss this conference.

Split into three general categories (Basics, General, and Business), Blog Indiana has something for everyone. The best part is you can attend sessions in any category throughout the conference. With amazing local talent such as Chris Baggott, Jennifer Wagner, Bil Browning, Sarah Robbins, Scott Abel, Ruth Holladay, and many others. Topics covered will include legal issues, corporate blogging, brand consistency, building readership, making money with blogging, politics and blogging, and much more. Check out the sessions page for the complete list.

The conference is taking place at the IUPUI Conference Center in Indianapolis on August 16-17th. This is the first local conference like this and it looks like it will be a very useful and memorable event. Over 25 sessions featuring some great local talent, networking with hundreds of other local bloggers all for $49 makes this a conference you won’t want to miss.

If you register using the special discount code BLOGDISC, you’ll get 15% knocked off the price!

Check out the conference website for more info.

Hope to see you there in August!

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Blog Indiana 2008 is official!

Blogging and Social Media ConferenceA flurry of activity has surrounded our tiny idea to hold a big conference for Indiana bloggers. With the support of title sponsor IU School of Informatics and local blog software company Compendium Blogware, we are excited to announce registration is now open for Blog Indiana 2008!

Blog Indiana 2008 will take place August 16th - 17th and feature topical sessions lead by some very talented local bloggers. So far, we’ve confirmed Chris Baggott, Douglas Karr, Bil Browning, Jim Shella, Jerame Davis, and Tom Britt (and we are hoping to announce several more in the coming weeks!).

Sessions will include topics such as blogging for beginners, using blogs in your business, monetizing your blog, political blogging and more advanced topics. There will also be panel discussions and group discussion topics voted on by attendees during the months leading up to the conference (look for this form coming soon!).

One of our goals with this conference was to bring bloggers together from across the state for an unforgettable experience with a low price tag. At $49 total for both days, I think we’ve done that.

Check out the official site: conference.blogindiana.com

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