Our Hero: Zero (or Before We Tweetup on Aug. 27th)

By Chad Johnson Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnson7/

Free. Zip. Nada. Gratis.

Who doesn’t love Captain Zilch? He’s so popular, he makes one the loneliest number.

In honor of Señor Nothing, our August 27th  #BMPR meeting will celebrate all the  free tools and photos you can find, use, share, mix and mashup for your blogs, Web sites and other multimedia.  Sweet!

And we’ll even show you how to do it legally. Check out our Rock Star Speaker lineup below.

Our Speakers

Todd Morey

• Todd Morey, Mosso Co-Founder, will show you where to find free online photos/graphics and tools to crop, resize and embellish.

Todd started his career working as a web developer for the managed hosting giant, Rackspace. During his tenure at Rackspace, Morey and co-worker Jonathan Bryce had a vision to build a sophisticated web hosting environment where users and businesses alike could turn to design, develop and deploy their ideal web site – all without being responsible for procuring the technology, installing it or making sure it is built to be always available. This vision, along with help from Rackspace, was turned into what is today, The Rackspace Cloud. On Twitter: @toddmorey

• Michael Long, The Red Recruiter, will show you what free tools he uses to edit photos and compile them into videos online for his Red Shoe Project.

Michael Long

Michael is a local small business owner that wears red shoes every single day.  Michael started his business with the intent to raise the bar in the recruiting industry. Michael’s firm specializes in identifying the very best human resources and social media across the country. In addition to scouting out the best and the brightest, Michael speaks and consults frequently on the topic of social media. Michael also runs the Red Shoe Project a non-profit awareness campaign that aims to put the fun back into helping charities. On Twitter: @theredrecruiter

• Nathan Roach, IP and Litigation Attorney with The Prins Law Firm, will explain the Creative Commons licenses: what they are, how to navigate them and how to give proper credit to the photographers, artists and other creators.

Nathan is an attorney specializing in Intellectual Property Litigation: Copyright, Trademark, Trade Name, Trade Dress, and Business Competition matters. He formerly was a civil litigation attorney with his own practice and an IP lawyer with Hanor, Lively & Cernyar. Previously, he was  co-founder and VP of Litigation Dynamics Inc. In 1999, Roach was hired as the webmaster at Rackspace, officially becoming employee # 19.

L.A. Lorek

With more than two decades of experience in journalism, Laura is a reporter who always is on the cutting edge. An early adopter of Facebook, Twitter and other social media channels, Laura keeps her finger on the pulse of how technology affects the way we live and do business. This is her second stint at the Express-News. In between, though, Laura worked as a senior writer for Interactive Week Magazine, and as a technology columnist for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. She is an official member of #Tweetbabes in San Antonio, a wife and mother. On Twitter: @lalorek

Questions? Contact one of the #BMPR crew on Twitter: @joeruiz @andinarvaez @writeontime (me) @nanpalmero @jessyoung13