Welcome to Flash on the Beach blog. We will be adding news here about the conference. Whenever new speakers are confirmed, sessions are released or schedules are posted. Anything to do with the venue, Brighton, food, drink, hotels or travel.
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Heads Up. Eurostar are reporting fewer trains running because of the shutdown last week. If you are traveling via Eurostar contact them to get advice on your travel arrangements.
Every now and then we get a photo sent to us of someone wearing some Flash on the Beach swag in unusual places! You know the type of thing, someone standing in front of the Taj Mahal wearing some FOTB flip-flops!
We thought it would be fun to get people to upload photos of people and their Flash on the Beach swag in unusual places to Flickr and tag them FOTBSWAG, or FOTBSCHWAG.
Come on, this could be fun, if you have any of the Flash on the Beach bags, beanie hats, flip-flops, towels or t-shirts, get them up on Flickr and tag them. It’ll be cool to see how far and wide they have travelled! Even weird places, like tops of mountains or bottoms of pot-holes!
Wanna meet up before the conference? Want to network, meet friends or make friends? What better way to do that than with a beer in one hand and a burger in the other. Dave Stone, is organising pre-party burgers! What a great way to hook up before the event! Go to http://icanhaz.com/flashburger for more details. Cool!
Are we mad, crazy, bonkers, doolally, around the twist, cuckoo, squiffy, nuts, bananas, fruitcakes?
Or do we just like to have fun at FOTB and try and be a little different from the crowd?
We try our very best to make Flash on the Beach the best conference around. We are constantly thinking of new ways to make the event better and more fun! Our latest hair brain idea is that we have just put 5 listings for 3 Day Conference Passes up on eBay! Bidding starts at £1.
Is this a mark of desperation on our part? NO WAY! Tickets sold are very close to last years attendance already, so we are doing this for fun! We just figured we’d give someone a chance to get a 3 Day Pass whilst having some fun themselves! We don’t care if they go for £1 or for the full face value - the idea is to be different!
Here are the 5 ticket auctions:
Go have some fun!
One of FOTB’s favourite speakers has had some fun adding his speaker badge to his site. Check out his header at his blog. We think it is fantastic and fits exactly with the spirit of the conference. Tink - Genius! Love it!
We have been contacted by an agency in London who have told us about someone calling them and saying she represented Flash on the Beach. She told them that FOTB was giving free tickets to London Agencies and that she needed the names and details of all the staff that wanted to go. She then provided false contact details.
THIS IS A SCAM! We do not ‘cold call’ agencies, we ARE NOT offering free tickets.
We can only assume that it is a headhunter or someone trying to build a database, but certainly it is someone fishing for information. If you get a call similar to this one, DO NOT fall for it!
Get your tickets while they are hot!
Anyone wanting to come to Flash on the Beach better be quick! Ticket sales end Tues 20th October. This is because we are pretty much sold out. If you want to come but haven’t got your ticket yet, get it now!
