Mike Schinkel
About: Mike in an entrepreneur-at-large and currently devotes much of his time try to catalyze the ecosystem for micro-signed web-focused entrepreneurial business via The Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs meetup group.
As a consultant with his technical hat on Mike is an advocate for Well Designed URLs and specializes in REST-based web services, and User-Centered URL Design.
Mike is also skilled in doing optimization and effectiveness reviews of websites for website's owners. Mike's reviews can uncover problems for search engine optimization as well as recommend how to better leverage social media opportunities with the existing website.
In addition Mike decided to focus on using Drupal and is becoming become quite proficient in building Drupal-based websites.
Mike has a few side projects in the works including Toolicious and Simple Web Services, and Mike is on the W3C HTML (v5) Working Group.
Previously Mike founded Xtras, Inc. (also known as VBxtras), a catalog and internet reseller of components and tools for software developers. Mike ran Xtras from 1994 to 2006. In 1999 Inc Magazine recognized Xtras growth by listing its as #123 in their Inc 500 list.
You can contact Mike via his GMail account mikeschinkel and you can read his blog Miscellaneous Ramblings.
Network
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Eric Winter friend |
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Sandi Solow friend |
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Josh Hallett friend |
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David Taylor-Klaus friend |
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Michael Mealling friend |
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jon gos (mutual) friend |
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Jacqui Chew (mutual) friend |
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Emmanuel (mutual) friend |
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Lance Weatherby friend |
Comments
Mike:
It was great meeting you the other day and was very glad that you were sporting enough to join a group of strangers for a "business meeting." Best of luck on the upcoming event and let me know how I can assist with others as well as the web project.
jacqui
Hi Mike,
I know what you mean about a lot of the networking events being full of people trying to sell to each other; I went to a TechLinks event in September where I felt like that. I joined the Atlanta MIT Enterprise Forum last year and have been pretty happy with the events and the people I meet while I'm there. It's at one of the MIT Enterprise Forum events that I met a couple of entrepreneurs who have pretty good connections in the business community.
Also, I think Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs is a great social network -- especially in light of all the recent blog posts about the challenges of entrepreneurial activity in Atlanta. The site creation and administration tools are still pretty rough. I'm here to help with anything you need. If it's broken, I'll fix it. If it doesn't exist yet, I'll build it. If it's unclear, I'll explain it. I want you to have a great experience hand build a valuable network.
I was already planning to improve the urls. Now I'm doubly inspired.
