Thanks to the team at Call for Help, we were lucky to be on 2 different segments with host Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte. I presented JobLoft.com from the job seeker’s aspect and on the flip side, Lee presented JobLoft.com from the HR recruiter’s point of view. The show is on G4 TechTV. We will give an update when this show goes on air, so stay tuned!

Some interesting moments. 20 minutes before entering the studio I took a sip of my coffee and then SPLAT! coffee stain on my shirt (just my luck). Thanks to quick thinking from Lee, we were able to remove the stain using a bottle of water and elbow grease. Just imagine two guys pouring and rubbing water on the same shirt on the side of the street!

Shoutouts go to Mohit Rajhans for arranging our appearance and Mike Lazazzera for coordinating us backstage. I actually felt like a celebrity for that window of 2 hours (make up, coffee/snack table, waiting area.. the works )

Enjoy the pictures.

pic 1. Lee, Mohit, Me

pic 2. in front of the studios

pic 3. picture with Amber Mac on set

pic 4. lee, mike, me

I actually started this blog because of DemoCamp. Somebody mentioned that we had a lot of web 2.0 related stuff except a corporate blog. I thought it was a good idea and this lets us keep a running journal of what we’re up to.

On July 25, 2006, we attended DemoCamp 8 at No Regrets restaurant in Toronto. This was our first time demoing, as well as our first time at DemoCamp. We first heard about DemoCamp through David Crow at CaseCamp a few weeks prior and he mentioned that there would be one coming up and welcomed us to present.

We had a lot of fun demoing JobLoft.com. We had many features that we could potentially demo but we ended up only choosing 3 or 4 features to show: job search w/ajax + google maps, rss, add jobloft to your site and showing a list of our clients. We figured this way, we’d save more time for Q&A and to gather feedback/suggestions from the audience. We did end up receiving a lot of questions and feedback which was awesome.

The next day on July 26, we were scheduled to be featured in Metro News (Workology section - page 18). A few people from DemoCamp contacted us about seeing JobLoft in the paper. It was pretty exciting to see the 2 unrelated events to come together. We also scoured the web looking for various blogs talking about the event, in case people didn’t want to express any criticisms to us live. We’ve found that people tend to be much more direct and give their honest opinions in their own blogs. We were really pleased to see that overall, people liked the product and our demo in general. Here are a few links to blog entries that did an event summary for DemoCamp 8:

• http://www.oliyiptong.com/blog/2006/07/26/democamp-8-2/
• http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/576.html
• http://archives.i.canblog.com/2006/07/26/democamp_8_quick_sum_up.html
• http://alanhietala.blogspot.com/2006/07/democamp-thoughts.html
• http://www.falsepositives.com/index.php/2006/07/27/toronto-demo-camp-eat-8/
• http://colin.smillie.ca/content/view/49/
• http://blog.fawny.org/2006/07/26/democamp8/
• (missing any? leave us a comment!)

For photos of the event, there are a good number of “democamp” tagged photos on Flickr.