Archive for May, 2010

Doing What You Love AND Making a Prosperous Living

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Wendy Keilin came to Missoula from New Jersey for Missoula BarCamp 2010. She gave a warm up talk for which you can find the video. She also convened this very excellent session on how to do make a prosperous living doing what you love.

You can find the full audio for the session in this hour long podcast.

Missoula BarCamp 2010 – Wendy Keilin – How to make a prosperous living doing what you love

Or you can read the session notes, which are part of the Missoula BarCamp 2010 website. Although many of the comments came from the audience, and the notes don’t give full attribution to all the attendees, Wendy Keilin has been investigating this question professionally for 10 years, and she has been living it for longer than that. Her stories and experience and thoughts around this are a really great start for doing what you love, whether it’s in the fine arts, in music, or in geekdom. One of the best comments I remember from the audience stated that the days of the lifetime job and being cared for by “the company” are over. Not just the music industry is broken – and we all need to build our own client lists and multiple streams of income.

 

BarCamps, Unconferences, & Berlin

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Missoula BarCamp t-shirt visiting the Garden of Exile at the Berlin Jewish MuseumThis post is really a podcast. I’ll be writing later about the Missoula BarCamp and the World Open Space on Open Space in Berlin, both held May 2010. But this post is a podcast of a recording extracted from my Android phone of the last 30 minutes of a session convened by Jon Harvey and attended by about 18 others, including myself.

Berlin WOSonOS 2010 – BarCamps Unconferences

The picture is of me in Berlin wearing my Missoula BarCamp t-shirt in the Berlin Jewish Museum which a sizable group of the World Open Space on Open Space attendees visited after the conference. The photo was taken in the Garden of Exile by another attendee, Hempal Shrestha.