Sydney Uni Entrepreneurship Students Do Their OneEyeDeer Presentations

Earlier on in the year, Sydney Uni Lecturer Massimo Garbuio and I sat down and spoke about using OneEyeDeer as part of his Global Entrepreneurship and Enterprise course.

As a result, OED was the focus of a group assignment for three separate groups of students.

Those 3 groups selected OED as the subject of their assignment, after seeing presentations from a few different orgs.

I had the pleasure today of hearing the students do their presentations, which were framed as investor pitches. In the audience with me were Massimo and a local VC.

It was great to not only see how the students grasped the concepts behind OED, but also to hear their suggestions for making OED successful.

A big "thank you" to Massimo and all of the groups for spending time on OED. Hopefully you all learned something from the experience and will go on to be avid users of the site ;)

If you do, you may even see some of your suggestions on the site in the near future...

And Off We Go Again...

Finally we're ready to start another round of testing.

With the amount of dramas we've had, culminating in a 4 day server outage thanks to Media Temple, you'd think that someone had it in for us.

But we've made it through that little rough patch and we're really excited to have people playing with the site again.

In a short while www.oneeyedeer.com will be available for use again.

In case you're not on the mailing list (drop me an email at kim [at] oneeyedeer [dot] com if you'd like to be added) we're asking people to do 2 things

1. Register

So you can also see your MyPad page and Join Communities

2. Tell us about bugs/suggestions

We've created special communities –
i. OED Bugs - for bugs; and
ii. OED Suggestions - for suggestions

Just join those communities then anytime you post a bug or suggestion add it to the appropriate community.

If you'd like to speak to us about something that's not a bug or suggestion, then feel free to email me on the address above.

We look forward to hearing your feedback

Friday Afternoon Update

I'll agree - I've been very slack of late with the posting

Between a few separate projects I've been too busy to even think about posting - which isn't much of an excuse as it doesn't take long to put a few words up - but its the excuse I'm going to use :)

Since the last post we had our first Sydney OpenCoffee Meeting. About 20 people showed up. It was great to hear about other people's experiences and struggles in the process of trying to run a start up.

So far we have over 50 people signed up to our Meetup group and the number is growing daily. All this interest makes me glad that I decided to help get the Sydney Startup community together as there was obviously a need for it.

One Eye Deer is also coming along. Admittedly it got stalled for a couple of other projects we're about to launch - but we should be back on point very soon and ready to get something out to our friends to test.

I haven't been doing my usual amount of reading but it's been interesting to see the interest that has come up in SMS in the US. Most of the hype was started by Twitter (I still don't get what the fascination with it is) but now others are jumping on the bandwagon. All this excitement is kind of handy because one of the projects that kept us away from OED just happened to be an SMS application. Hopefully all this SMS buzz will allow us to create a much bigger presence with it in the US than we would have been able to only 6 or 12 months ago.

I've also been trying to keep on top of microformats, openID stuff and, of course, visualisation of data, but the fields are moving quite fast at the moment and I need a little more time to bury myself in the detail.

Off to work on things again.

Hopefully I can be better with the regular posting from now on

K