Well, a day away and it looks like things are jelling to make for another great Ignite Columbus.

Speakers? Check.

Sponsors? Check. Sandbox Columbus and ELEVATE thinking are brining in food from Z Pizza. Avitae Energy Water, which is a sponsor of PodCamp Ohio will be providing their caffinated water.

After Party? Check. We’ll be heading to Park Street Patio after Ignite. Park Street has generously provided us two cabanas from 9 – 10 pm, beer and pizza (limited quatity). You’ll definitely want to come and continue the conversation and talk about the talks.

Audience? Check. Thanks to those who have registered. And to those that haven’t yet, what are you waiting for. Look at all the stuff we’re providing. And the ticket is free.

We say we’ll open the doors at 6 PM. But make sure to come early so you can mingle and meet people. Also, remember the 315 construction. I have no idea what it’s like, so you’ll definitely want to account for plan for the delay.

Detailed driving and parking instructions can be found on the PodCamp Ohio site.

See everyone tomorrow.

Hooray! Your local Ignite organizers finally got off their butts and scheduled Ignite Columbus 3. Actually, we were prodded by the good folks organizing PodCamp Ohio. Thus, we’ll be doing Ignite the night before PodCamp Ohio.

It will be Friday, June 19 from 6-8 at The Ohio State University Mendenhall Labatory.

For Ignite Columbus 3, we’ll be limiting the number of talks to 8-10, and are asking people to “vote” on what they want to hear.

Don’t worry. It won’t be a popularity contest. We’ll use the votes as a guideline and will use our best judgment, with the help of some trusted and outspoken friends, to pick interesting talks.

So pitch something interesting.

If you want examples, check out the Ignite Show. http://ignite.oreilly.com/show/

Submit and vote on talks here.

If you’re just attending, order your free ticket here.

So we’re less than two weeks away from the first Ignite Columbus. If you haven’t yet RSVP’d to attend, please do so on Majelly or Meetup. Also, if you want to present, please e-mail me at IgniteColumbus@gmail.com.

While we don’t yet have the final lineup, here’s a sample of what will be presented at Ignite Columbus:

• Bryce Glass - Algorithms for Interesting: How, exactly, do social media sites decide what’s good and what’s not?
• Jason Blanton - How to be a blog rockstar in 5 minutes or less
• Brian Link – A satirical look at how technology and social media have made us all seemingly take shortcuts in life… and that it’s a good thing
• Eve Hermann - Temperate Broadleaf Deciduous Forest & Arc of Appalachia Preserve System
• Arvind Venkataramani - The parable of the totaled saab, or, what is sustainability?
• Dan Rockwell - Backcasting with Japanese Animation: If your curious about the future of anything, look to small screen of Japanese Animation- here is a playground of future envisioning that is more accurate than you think.
• Dan Harris – Six Degrees of Dan: Website where Dan has a bucket list of people he wants to meet. He’ll ask his readers for an introduction, then write about his experience with meeting the folks.
• Alvin Borromeo – Let’s Hug it Out, Columbus: My hairbrained scheme to supply local TV stations with locally produced scripted shows for air on multicast channels
• Matthew Leasure - The Nature of Urbanism: Highlighting the current sustainable design movement in Columbus and offering up ideas for the future of our cities.
• Mike McBride - 5 minutes on ways to overcome shyness and network with the best of ‘em!: Do you wish you could have an ever-growing network of friends/peers/professionals to call on when you need help with a project? Is your naturally tendency towards shyness and your introverted personality keeping you from that? We’ll give you a couple of ways to look at networking/friendship to help you not only overcome these traits, but use them to your advantage.
• Brian Lockrey - Using Google and Social Networks to Grow Your Business: You’ve heard all about Search Engine Optimization… Link Building… Page Ranking… Web 2.0… Bookmarking… Mashups… How can you use these tools to grow your business, find new business partners or promote your organization? With hundreds of Social Networks on-line, how can these tools be used effectively and efficiently to build your brand?