UPDATE: Contest now over. Sorry!
This Wednesday, intelligent publishing giant O’Reilly Media’s provocative day-long mini Tools of Change in Publishing is in Portland, Oregon, that mossy Pacific Northwest utopia that I Heart Media calls home.
What the heck is a “miniTOC”? In the illuminating words of O’Reilly, it’s a “conversation focusing on Portland’s thriving publishing, tech, and bookish-arts community.” An impressive line-up of Portland’s publishing/content firestarters are slated to speak to get that conversation hot:
Keynote — Marshall Kirkpatrick of Read Write Web
Sustainability in Publishing — Ooligan Press
Designing the Digital Means: The New Role of the Publisher — Exprima Media
The Book as a Startup — Todd Sattersten
Losing beauty: What’s wrong with eBooks — John Labovitz
An Artisanal Approach to Digital Publication — Digital Bindery
Attending to the Social Life of the Book — Publication Studio
Publishing on the Web or Publishing for Specific Devices or Formats — Highlighter.com
So…are you going? Do you want to?
I Heart Media has FIVE (that’s 1-2-3-4-5) passes to miniTOC Portland, and are inviting all publishing provocateurs in the Portland-Metro area to win one of them by leaving a comment on this post with 1) your Twitter name (if you have one) and 2) the title of the session you’d present if you were scheduled to speak at the event.
That’s it. Really.
Here are the contest rules:
- You must be able to attend the all day event on Wednesday, July 27, at the EcoTrust Building in Portland, Oregon
- You must leave a comment on this post with the title of the session you’d present if you were scheduled to speak at the event buy Tuesday, July 26 PST (Twitter name is appreciated, but not required)
- You must squeeze out every ounce of awesome that miniTOC Portland has to offer
I Heart Media will randomly choose five lucky publishing provocateurs no later than 6pm PST. Winners will be notified by email and a Tweet from @IHeartMedia.
What are you waiting for? Enter now for the chance to start some fires with your provocative publishing ideas at miniTOC Portland.
Good luck!
Yours in provocation,
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