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I've been thinking about a great format for a collaborative event, based on experiences of prior BarCamps, like this one, or this one. My current concept is a 30 hour non stop dance experience, with an evening dance Friday night, workshops starting around 11 AM Saturday, and a Saturday evening dance.
For those of you unfamiliar with BarCamp, it's a collaborative, attendee run conference for geeks. In this case, I'd like to try out the concept and call it Seattle DanceCamp.… Read More

I've been racking my brains as to how to help with the earthquake tragedy in Haiti. My mother informed me that it's in a critical state, a couple days out from rioting. If you haven't seen details of it, watch this AP report, referred to me by Andru Edwards on gearlive.
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Starting now, if you send an SMS donation to either the Red Cross (by texting the word HAITI to 90999) or to YELE (by texting the word YELE to 501501) Dancehop will match it, up to $50.
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I had to share this video from DJ Earworm, it's one of the most ambitious mashups that I've seen, and is a much better execution than his 2008 effort.
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It's been a busy couple of months for the Dancehop team. We currently have two members working full time on it, and a couple of part time contributors. Last week, you told us what you think about Dancehop and your dance experience. Here are some of the results:

• -Female dancers: 60%
• -Average age: 29
• -Dancers have been dancing at least 3 years: 62%
• -Respondees wanting to improve their dance: 90%
• -Half of the respondees found out about Dancehop through employee contact

We got a lot of great personal feedback as well, and will be implementing some key ideas in the coming months. We also… Read More

[caption id="attachment_426" align="alignnone" width="328" caption="Jim Chow Salsa"][/caption] Here's the second interview, with Jim chow, who runs the Seattle Salsa Meetup, and runs the Belltown dance studio. The audio wasn't great so I just did a transcript. Let me know if you guys prefer audio or text. Lots of videos and content, so check out more after the jump:
E: Hi everybody this is Eric Siegfried founder of DanceHop.com, and I'm talking today in… Read More

We're constantly looking at ways to create the best experience for dancers on dancehop.com, are currently looking to streamline the events page. Here's a sample:
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I think we can tighten it up with by moving the X Dancers | X ratings up a bit, but overall how does… Read More

I wanted to showcase a few more pics that I enjoyed, you can check out the whole set on the Flickr photo stream. Here's a new Flickr submission: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="292" caption="Mehrdadz photo submission on Flickr"][/caption] More from Vladimir Estirin: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"… Read More

[caption id="attachment_351" align="alignnone" width="224" caption="Dinner with Walt, the aftermath"][/caption] Yesterday was more abundance in action. For those of you out of the loop, I'm buying dinner or lunch for people who might have ideas for DanceHop until June 15th.
I had dinner with my friend Walt, a great Rails developer and PM. We had an interesting and productive conversation at Tom Douglas' Greek inspired restaurant, Lola. Here's what we… Read More

[caption id="attachment_308" align="alignnone" width="360" caption="New DanceHop Flyer"][/caption] So I found a design I liked, modified it, got great feedback from Nicole, and we've got a flyer produced by EricB. This will be the 4x6 paper flyer until we get a nice glossy photo out. We'll probably print this on orange paper, same color as the bouncing ball. Any feedback? Read More

I'm pleased to announce the beta release of DanceHop.com, a place for dancers to:

• Find out about the hottest events in town
• Find out what their friends are up to
• Find info about teachers
• Find great gear

To help spread the word, check out our Facebook fan page. In the coming weeks, we'll be adding:

• +Multiple cities, so you can find national level events, and events when you travel
• +Facebook… Read More