Bill Erickson
New Media Entrepreneur

Who am I?

I'm a designer, a photographer, a consultant, a college student, a skiier, a net native, a theatre fanboy, and an Australian (if living there for three years counts). Here's some articles about me.

I have a coworking space in Downtown Bryan called The Creative Space, where I'm working on Erickson Media Group, Activist Apparel, and a few other projects.

I'm also one of the founders of the BIL Conference, a free unconference run in conjunction with TED.

Find me on

billerickson.net - my tumblelog, an aggregation of all my online activity.

You can also find me on flickr, twitter, facebook, del.icio.us, LinkedIn, Natuba, Upcoming.org, and Netflix.

281.797.1276
bill@billerickson.net
and here's my resume

Lefora - Great new forum software

I’ve been playing around with the free forum hosting by lefora and I’m impressed. It looks great, has some amazing features, and best of all it’s free. We’re in the process of figuring out how we’re going to manage the BIL Community for the BIL Conference and I’m going to see if I can get Lefora to do most of what we want for it.

There’s still a few things I want that they either don’t have or I haven’t found yet:

  • Maps - Users can put their location in their profile, but I can’t seem to find a way to use this. I’d like to have a map that shows all the BIL’ders around the world, and allows them to easily connect with others nearby.
  • Events - We want some way for people to sign up for different BIL Conferences. Right now we’re using a google form, but if we’re using Lefora I’d like some way to associate a user with an event (no reason to have them enter information we already have).

These two points are important because they are the main purpose of the BIL Community: connecting local like-minded individuals to encourage them to start their own BIL, and to create discussions with BILders throughout the world.

I’ll keep digging into it and see if it can help us.