For website services go to http://emilwisch.com Emil can meet locally in the following Chicago suburbs: Tinley Park, Orland Park, Orland Hills, Oak Lawn, Palos Hills, Palos Heights, Palos Park, Bridgeview, Hickory Hills, Alsip, Chicago Ridge, Worth, Midlothian, Oak Forest, Mokena, Frankfort, New Lenox, Burbank, Homer Glen, Willow Springs, Evergreen Park, Lemont, Lockport, Manhattan, Darien, Downers Grove, Naperville and Lisle.
I have done so in order to consolidate multiple blogs and simplify my life.
See you there,
Emil
Nick of UrbanMelt.com will be giving a presentation at SocialDevCampChicago about UrbanMelt’s switch from Java to Ruby on Rails. Find out why we made the switch and what he’s learned during the tedious process. You’ll be able to meet and talk with other like-minded social media personalities as well.
Here’s a bit more about the event taken from the SocialDevCampChicago event wiki (check out the wiki to see who else will be there and what topics will be discussed):
“SocialDevCampChicago is an unconference for people passionate about social networks, web applications, platform development, new media, and any of the exciting (but messy) topics in-between. Join some of the brightest minds in the Midwest for a day of fun, learning, and coding!
SocialDevCampChicago will be on Saturday, August 9, 2008, 8:30am-6:00pm (with afterparty TBD)
Location:
Illinois Institute of Technology
McCormick Tribune Center (the cool Rem Koolhaas building)
3201 South State Street
Chicago, IL 60616
After Party Location:
Grace O’Malley’s
1416 S Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60605
Complimentary drinks from 6:30 – 8:30
Feel free to stay longer
Easily accessible from the CTA Red Line via the Sox-35th Street exit. Even better – the Green Line actually lets out *inside* the building (the tube above the building are the El platforms). Ample parking is available to the south of the building.
Grace O’Malley’s is also accessible from the CTA. Both the Green Line and Red Line stop at Roosevelt and the bar is two blocks south on Michigan.
SocialDevCamp Chicago was inspired by SocialDevCamp East, hosted on May 10 in Baltimore. The name remains the same (with permission of course). The crew for the Chicago installment, however, will be headed by Tim Courtney and Andy Angelos. Same mission, different minds!”
If you’re a community builder or community manager, I want to hear from YOU. I am not imposing any limitations. Your community can be online or offline. You may be a seasoned veteran or a complete newbie. This is an open call. Stop by and tell all the nice people who you are and shine some light on your communities.
At the end of this post just add a comment. Be sure to include the fun stuff (social network profiles, links to websites, offline contact info, etc.)
Thanks,
Emil
I’d like the first post on the Community Servant blog to be one about someone who has a local connection to me. Phil Tadros of metroproper.com (a cool community & social network) and I both grew up in the southwest suburbs of Chicago, and last night I reached out to Phil as I have quite a few times in the past knowing I’d get a lightning-quick response.
Here are a few questions Phil answered for me:
EMIL: What do you think is the most important thing you have done to grow the Proper community?
PHIL: It’s reflective of my real life and the people I meet and see online and off.
EMIL: What’s the most important quality that you possess, that differentiates you, Phil Tadros, from other community builders?
PHIL: Intuition, patience, drive and my big old stupid heart.
EMIL: What mistakes have you made to piss off people within the metroproper community or potential members of metroproper?
PHIL: Metroproper was my first online project ever so I had to learn by making all the mistakes you could imagine, but it made for a good story and really pulled together some really amazing people and I’ve been able to help many others in not making the same list of mistakes.
I’m really happy with where we are at now and we keep working at it, soon we launch music and local buzz!
EMIL: When talking about MetroProper or your other ventures, what do you dedicate the majority of your time on?
PHIL: I spend most my time on making sure everyone is okay and productive, and the lifestyle of web start ups and coffee shops make it so I’m constantly from wake up to pass out working on helping solve things with people. I’m open to the public, literally 
phil [at] metroproper.com
To see what else Phil is working on check out his profile on LinkedIn
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