Welcome to the life and times of Sooz where I've been documenting my work and life adventures since 2002. Work = Sooz Media, my consulting business for web marketing, website project management, event planning and event photography. Life = shooting concert videos + photography, cooking for friends at The Granitorium, and scheming with my favorite Boston bands.
Monthly archive June, 2006

What is an unconference?

Pete Caputa wrote about his dislike of the term "unconference." Personally, I think unconference is about as useless of a word as "Web 2.0." The South by Southwest Interactive Festival is by far one of the best event/collection of humans/whatever you want to call it -- oh, conferences -- that I've been to. And it...

My new web/tech/creative recruiting job at Randstad

I recently started working as a technical/web/creative recruiter at Randstad's office in Harvard Square. It's a contract job for the summer and it might last longer depending on how it goes. Anyone who has known me for more than ten minutes most likely knows that I've always been useful at helping match people up with job...

Adam Gaffin Offers A Few Tips for Christopher Lydon

When I read Christopher Lydon's description about the "New England Common" discussion he'll be leading at the upcoming Media Giraffe conference, I was a little confused. He writes: [W]hy don't we at the core of New England have something like the group blogs we admire -- the aggregative web power -- at the Huffington Post,...

New times two

I haven't written much here at sooz.com in a while other than the ocassional game night tidbit. I moved into a new shared office/workspace this past weekend. It's a big building at 119 Braintree in Allston, home to lots of companies: filmmakers, photographers, web designers, artists, piano repair, architects, fashion designers and lots more. I'm...

Board Game Night with HeyLetsGo on June 6

The gang over at HeyLetsGo are co-hosting Tuesday night's board game night at the Common Ground along with Exploit Boston. That's tomorrow, June 6th at 7pm. Michael picked up some new games for us today so we're up to 40 board and card games. Nice! If you're on HLG and haven't added game night to...