{"id":1709,"date":"2007-07-21T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2023-03-25T22:07:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T05:07:43","slug":"barcampbankseattle-day-one-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1709","title":{"rendered":"BarCampBankSeattle day one."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barcampbankseattle.pbworks.com\/w\/page\/13231728\/FrontPage\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.azaroff.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/barCampBank-710379.png?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I gotta admit, although I was totally excited about BarCampBankSeattle, I was skeptical about the concept that those who show up are the right people, and whatever is discussed are the right things to discuss. It sounded a little too airy-fairy for me (and I can handle a lot of airy-fairy). And yet it totally works.<\/p>\n<p>The day has a structure we decided in the morning and we strayed from that structure in exactly the right way. If a session loses focus, people leave. If a session needs to go on for longer, people keep discussing.<\/p>\n<p>It truly is an amazing group, and it&#8217;s great to be a part of it. This is also a great structure for smaller groups who really want to cross-pollenate. Kudos to Jesse Robbins and Ben Black for putting it together!<\/p>\n<p>You can see the photos tagged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tags\/barcampbankseattle\/\" title=\"flickr.com\">barcampbankseattle on flickr.com<\/a>. Some good shots here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll get some good posts here and on netbanker.com as soon as I&#8217;m able to gather my thoughts and put something coherent together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I gotta admit, although I was totally excited about BarCampBankSeattle, I was skeptical about the concept that those who show up are the right people, and whatever is discussed are the right things to discuss. It sounded a little too airy-fairy for me (and I can handle a lot of airy-fairy). And yet it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,49,31,44,51,41,17],"tags":[185,202,190,198,203,196,183],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-barcampbankseattle","category-credit-union","category-innovation","category-social-personal-finance","category-technology","category-web-2-0","tag-banking","tag-barcampbankseattle","tag-credit-union","tag-innovation","tag-social-personal-finance","tag-technology","tag-web-2-0"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p37qUH-rz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}