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when: tomorrow, Jan 17, 4-6pmwhere: Amelie’s Our guest at tomorrow’s blogger/journo (#FoJ) meetup is Creative Loafing columnist and author, John Grooms. From his bio on Main Street Rag: “John Grooms is a multiple award-winning writer and editor, as well as teacher, public speaker, event organizer, music lover, rock history fanatic, husband, father, recovering worrywart, conflicted [...]

Come out this evening and hear Charlotte Observer columnist Jeff Elder discussing the finer points of social media, including things he’s learned from his year-long fellowship studying the topic at Stanford, and his experiences meeting people like Biz Stone & Ev Williams (Twitter), Craig Newmark (Craigslist) and Loic Le Meur (Seesmic). This is another one [...]

illustration: Jack Knight Come out this evening and listen to Andria Krewson (@underoak) and Rhi Bowman (@rhibowman) discuss taking care of yourself and your business as a freelancer. You can submit questions to be addressed via Google Moderator. This is another one of the monthly Blogger/Journalist meetups, and looks to be very informative. RSVP, if [...]

#FoJ = the Future of Journalism, for those not following along. We’re really excited about this event. Come out to meet and talk with David Boraks, founder and publisher of DavidsonNews.net, arguably Davidson, NC’s leading outlet for local news; and David Cohn, via live video on Skype from San Francisco, founder of Spot.us, a groundbreaking [...]

day: Monday, May 18time: 7pmplace: Amelie’s French Bakery The next blogger/journo meetup is this coming Monday, 7pm, and Amelie’s in NoDa. Our guest is blogger/writer Dave Munger (@davemunger on Twitter) of Cognitive Daily, and founder/president of ResearchBlogging.org. Join us for casual discussion about the present and future of journalism and media. And pastries. We’ll meet [...]

We talked about Five Ventures a little bit last week, saying we had been selected (CLT Blog) as finalists. Five Ventures is an early-stage, high-growth business competition for the Southeast US. Companies compete in one of five different sectors: Biotechnology-Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology-Devices, Information Technology/Software-as-a-Service, Service/Retail and Student/Non-Profit. $100,000 in professional services are up for grabs, and [...]

video: Erik Button; watch this video on Vimeo Justin Ruckman and I made official appearances as CLT Blog editors in last Thursday’s presentation to the semi-final round of UNC Charlotte’s Five Ventures competition. We were selected as semi-finalists after submitting our executive summary, and prepared the presentation excerpted above for a shot at the finals. [...]