We're trying something new. We're pushing weekly event listings out each week at http://wegowego.wordpress.com/. We think you might find this to be a helpful starting point, or just a nice reminder.
If you'd like your events to appear in the posting, all you have to do is add your events to WeGoWeGo. Please give us one week in advance. If you have mulitple events to add, contact support at wegowego.com and we'll help.
Last night we had the privilege of presenting at Fuze Toronto, a marketing and advertising meetup for professionals interested in new technologies. We didn't win the competition, but won a few more dedicated fans of WeGoWeGo. The event was held at Skylounge, which is the patio area behind Proof The Vodka Bar at the Intercontinental Hotel on Bloor. It's a swanky little joint. Watch out for the $10 pints though. As the waitress said, "you gotta love hotel bar prices."
We've gotten pretty comfortable talking with designers and developers through all the tech meetups we've been to, but this was our first opportunity to take WeGoWeGo to a marketing and advertising crowd. There are some interesting differences!
We gathered some helpful feedback, met a lot of cool people, won some new members for the WeGoWeGo community, and practiced our pitch. All in a good night's work.
Tomorrow is the third Monday of the month, and that means Rails Pub Night at the Rhino on Queen St W. We'll be getting up on chairs again as we did about a year and a half ago. Last time we stood up to pitch the idea of WeGoWeGo. This time we're happy to say that the site is up and running. We're looking for a designer and a developer who are interested in helping us build out a few more key features.
Since we still have our day jobs and we're bootstrapping (read: not funded) we're not expecting you to jump all-in and join us full time for equity alone. That would be pretty cool, of course, but we've all got bills to pay. Sustainability is one of our prime directives: that means working toward success in a way that can be sustained for as long as it takes.
We have several features planned, each of which could make up a small development module/design project. If you or someone you know is interested in a small dev/design project for equity, consider working on one of our projects. We'll be explaining a little more at Rails Pub, or drop us an email at partners at WeGoWeGo dot com. Twitter works, too, of course (usually :p).
It's been a busy week! DemoCamp Toronto #21 on Wednesday was a great success. At first it didn't seem right to be in a lecture hall instead of a dingy pub (the usual venue), but this was the first democamp where I could actually hear all of the presentations and read what was on the screen. Pretty good things to be able to do at a demo, it turns out! The lack of beer was more than made up for later in the evening when we decended on the nearby unsuspecting Fion McCools.
Thursday night was StartUp Drinks at Pogue Mahone on College and Bay. We had a chance to talk to all sorts of interesting people in the Toronto startup community. We were trying to make as many connections in hopes that someone could help us advance WeGoWeGo further. We're looking for a UI designer/front-end coder/usability expert and a rails dev or two to join our team. We're also looking for funding as we've bootstrapped ourselves to this point. There are still some important features that we'd like to add to our site as soon as possible to make it the powerful offering that we've envisioned.
Who says you can't have your own swag? Look at us, we are just starting and we have our own T-shirts and dancing shoes!
That's right, anyone can now be a proud owner of an official WeGoWeGo T-shirt. Check it out below. What's really cool, is that you can customize each shirt to make it your own...
BTW, we have little choice in terms of the cost and would love to hand them out for FREE, but not just yet.
We can however give out a couple.
For the first two people who comment on this post, will get a T-Shirt each! Be quick!
Now that our site is fully launched, we're ready to present WeGoWeGo at
DemoCamp Tororonto 21 @ The Velma Rogers Theatre July 28, 2009 - 6:00pm-9:00pm 333 Bloor St E., Toronto, ON
Our purpose is to help spread the word that our site is live and to have a good time networking with other like-minded techie/entrepreneur/business types. We're hoping to gather some helpful feedback and suggestions for future feature development, design optimization and growth strategies.
We're also hoping to find designers and developers who share our passion for urban adventure and would like to join our team.
It's been exactly a year since our last visit to Guelph DemoCamp. We've learned a lot since then and we revamped WeGoWeGo.com user experience to be much more intuitive and fun.
We are happy to come back to Guelph DemoCamp 10 (Info @bit.ly/dcg10 ) to give an update on our progress.
I love this video for many reasons but one thing stands out: at 2:52 you can hear someone saying "How did he do that? How did he do that?"
It usually starts off slowly. One or two people with an idea they believe in. Eventually another person catches on to what they're doing. Then another and another.
The thing is, he didn't do it. He started it, sure, but big things happen because of each person that jumps in and makes it easier for that next person to join. At some point it just feels good to be part of something cool, and even better if you helped make it happen. And everyone dancing helped make it happen!
It's scary to start something, but like the song in the video says, "I got to be un-stoppable." If you believe in what you're doing, or are just having too much fun to care, amazing things can happen.
In WeGoWeGo.com, we've built a platform that you can use to start your own big things. Add the events that you believe in to WeGoWeGo. And then tag them up with the descriptions in your own words. Share the event page, link to it, send the word out. Others whom you don't even know will find the tags you've added in our search engine. Then soon people will be asking, "How did you do it?"
There are no review committees, or editorial boards, or really any rules other than 'tell it like it is' and 'you are your own expert in matters of taste'.
