"This recommended reading list, published in Locus Magazines February 2010 issue, is a consensus by Locus editors and reviewers "

"Are you a designer? Thank you for being awesome. The open source world needs you like peanut butter needs jam. Our clients are asking for better designs, and we really need your help. Design to Theme is going to help you make the transition from designer to themer. Were planning tutorials, videos and classes to help designers learn how to make amazing themes and templates for open source content management syste"

"Name 3 people whom you admire, despise, work with or otherwise pay attention to and tools like HiveMind, Follower Wonk and Twiangulate will quickly calculate who all those people are following in common on Twitter. Tell those services who you are and theyll expose the people from that list that you arent yet following yourself.
Services like this stand in an interesting place online: they arent too hard to build and they delivery huge value to their users, but so far they have had a hard time getting people to try them out.
Using social network data is easiest with Twitter today, because of its more open nature, but this kind of work is being done on top of Facebook as well. (See this weeks article The Man Who Looked Into Facebooks Soul for example.) When it comes to using people to find people, its almost literally a 2.0 version of what some of the biggest companies in Web 1.0 did."

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Just a couple days ago we were disappointed to cancel our IAMCP ASAE happy hour due to Snowzilla. But then we learned about UnTech10 and how a couple of brave souls were standing up the the snow monster. We decided to join the fun, take this happy hour online and make it an open event that everyone can attend!
Dont let the Snowzilla stop you, join us and make some new connections! Registration takes two minutes, make sure to include a link to your online profile.
All you need is a web browser and a phone. You will meet a new connection every 6 minutes so be ready to network. This is a happy hour… so have your favorite drink in hand!
Make sure to check out UnTech10 for full details of other events: http://untech10.conferencespot.org/"