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.