Micro Camp May 17th, 2024

  • If you want to buy the music we used for the Micro Camp photo slideshow, it’s on Bandcamp:

  • If you missed a Micro Camp session, there are links to the videos now on micro.camp (except the keynote discussion with Om Malik, which is coming soon).

  • Announcing the door prize winners for Micro Camp 2023:

    We will be contacting the winners via email to arrange delivery of the prizes. Thanks to everyone who entered.

  • Last chance: enter the door prize drawing! You’ll have to decide which prize you want to go for. 🎟️ 🎥 ☕️ 🍵 📝 🚀

  • We are a little slow getting started for the 1 pm session. Technical difficulties. Sorry, and thanks for your patience.

  • At 1 pm Pacific (about 30 minutes from now), The State of the Micro.blog Platform will start, with @manton and @vincent. What’s new and what’s coming–hear all about it at Micro Camp. If you have questions, ask them in the camp chat or reply to this post. We’ll answer as many as we can.

  • Thanks for another super informative presentation about MarsEdit, @Miraz!

    Slides, transcript, AppleScripts and more are here: miraz.me/2023/05/2…

  • Tune in to Micro Camp to see @Miraz show you all the cool ways MarsEdit (developed by @danielpunkass) makes your microblogging life easier.

  • The next presentation comes from @Miraz: Take the Captain’s Chair of your Micro.Blog with the MarsEdit App for Mac: Time Travel, Replicators, Warp Speed and More

    (Spoiler alert: Star Trek references 🖖 😉)

    A license to MarsEdit is one of the door prizes, btw.

  • Thanks @mandaris for sharing your personal insights! 👏

    A reminder: enter the door prize drawing! You’ll have to decide which prize you want to go for. 🎟️ 🎥 ☕️ 🍵 📝 🚀

    We’ll announce the winners at the beginning of the closing community happy hour at 2 pm Pacific.

  • Starting in a few minutes: @mandaris ’s presentation Learning in Public: Creating A Micro.blog Theme As A Path To Personal Insight. Even if you have no ambition to create a blog theme, you will find the personal insights relatable. 🙂

  • Thanks so much @annahavron! Great presentation.

    If you want Anna’s handout with a worksheet to figure out the values that govern your time priorities, it’s here: www.annahavron.com/handouts

    Next up @mandaris at 11 am Pacific time!

  • Time for @annahavron’s presentation, Getting the (Right) Things Done! Tune in on micro.camp or on YouTube

  • Thanks so much to @bitdepth for the entertaining and educational presentation! If you want to know more… Links for Navigating the Online Age of Entertainment: How to Find Films to Watch and People to Share Them With

    Next up: @annahavron at 10 am Pacific.

  • The Micro Camp slideshow features photos from A Day in the Life of Micro.blog, the October 14, 2022 challenge, set to music by Holly Honeychurch / @hollyhoneychurch and Cerulean Sounds / @warner.

  • Welcome to Day 2 of Micro Camp! We’ll start with a brief welcome at 9 am Pacific, and then dive right in to today’s presentations, starting with Chris Campbell / @bitdepth.

    A reminder: enter the door prize drawing! We will announce the winners at the beginning of community happy hour, 2 pm Pacific.

  • And that’s a wrap of Micro Camp Day 1. Thanks to everyone for watching, commenting, participating, and especially thanks for your patience with the technical hiccups.

    We’ll start back up tomorrow at 9 am Pacific time, with presentations from @bitdepth, @annahavron, @mandaris, and @Miraz. 🏕️

  • A reminder: enter the door prize drawing! You’ll have to decide which prize you want to go for. 🎟️ 🎥 ☕️ 🍵 📝 🚀

  • Books Discussed in the Meetup

    Thanks to Simon / @simonwoods for taking notes!

    • Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
    • Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
    • Gods of the Upper Air by Charles King
    • The World As I Found It by Bruce Duffy
    • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
    • Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
    • Area X by Jeff Vandermeer
    • The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs by Tristan Gooley
    • County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
    • In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
    • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Kimmerer
    • Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown
    • Killers of The Flower Moon by David Grann
    • Here Comes Everybody by Anthony Burgess
    • (SERIES) Inspector Rebus by Ian Rankin
    • (SERIES) Agatha Christie
    • Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
    • Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch
    • (SERIES) Broken Blade by Kelly McCullough
    • Silver Mystic by Loren Andrews
    • The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths

  • Time for the photography meetup. Join us here:

    us02web.zoom.us/j/8928064…

  • We’re having a book chat meetup on Zoom. Feel free to join and share what you are reading or what you want to read next!

    us02web.zoom.us/j/8337560…

  • Here is the new link: us02web.zoom.us/j/8243693…

    The session will be streamed. You can join the discussion on Zoom, or just watch on the stream. It will not be posted for later viewing, though, just FYI.

  • Standby: we might have a new link for the community session! Technical difficulties, sorry.

  • If you want to join the discussion in The State of the Micro.blog Community, here is the link.

    us02web.zoom.us/j/8462052…

    We will start 12 noon Pacific, in 15 minutes.

  • You can now enter the Micro Camp door prize drawing: airtable.com/shrZ3C1Qp…

    There are five prize drawings. You can enter one drawing, so you’ll have to decide which prize you want the most 🤔

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