Cheyenne Throckmorton

Male

Atlanta, GA

United States

Profile Information:

About Me:
My fascination with social media was probably rooted back in 2001 after finishing my degree at Georgia Tech in Computer Science while minoring in Organizational Psychology and Cognitive Psychology.

Along the way I've joined and studied upward of 100+ social networks and probably have accounts in 500+ social media sites.

Then in 2007, I decided to start my own "super niche" network for people with mohawks and see what would happen. Less than 42 months into the experiment MohawksRock.com we have 4000+ members from 200+ countries and as of Aug 2011 we just had our 1,000,000th visitor.

AtlantaUserGroups.com is my 3rd social networking site, and I'm hoping that it will help provide a centralized location for groups in Atlanta to promote their events, and more importantly for visitors to learn of events that they would like to attend.

I constantly hear about events other groups are having that would I love to attend, but always hear too late. Then as president of the Atlanta ColdFusion User Group, I knew we had great topics and speakers that could interest other groups as well.

Here's to staying more informed of all the great networking and learning opportunities our user groups work very hard to provide.

UPDATE: In 2015, I left the J.O.B to help my wife's business, GlamKam.com keep growing and to start my own company, Massive Reach, focused on helping businesses in technology, marketing, leadership and digital strategy.
Website:
http://www.massivereach.com
Topics I can speak to your group about:
Digital Strategy Topics: SEO, Email Marketing / MailChimp, Social Media, Analytics, Adwords, Leadership and Productivity
Topics I want to learn more about:
MongoDB, NodeJS, Jekyll, Pardot
User Groups I Have Attended:
Drupal, WordPress, AIMA, AWDG, Agile, ColdFusion, Flex, AtlantaMDF, FoxPro, .Net, C#, InDesign, Flash, Adobe, StartUp, PHP, WordPress
Reasons I Attend Meetings:
There are a list of reasons to attend a meeting:

Speaker, Topic, Networking Opportunity, Price, Location, Food, Possible Prizes, Meeting Friends, Interest in Sponsor, Find a Job, Find an Employee.

Personally things that drive me are friends, topic, location and speaker.
Parts of Atlanta I Frequent:
Live in Dunwoody.
Work at Home.
Can also be found roaming around ATL Tech Village / Buckhead, Georgia Tech / Midtown, Downtown, Perimeter, Highlands and Brookhaven.
How did you find AtlantaUserGroups.com
Its been trying to find me for a long time now.

Comment Wall:

  • KAM

    This site looks really good, nice work!

    Jun 2, 2009

  • Stuart R Ainsworth

    I was going to ask how it went; he actually visited my blog and left a comment on it. I've been so snowed (first few days after a vacation) that I haven't even lifted my head up out of the water yet.

    I'm sure there will be another meeting on the calendar in a couple of weeks that we'll both want to go to; I'll ping you back when I've had a chance to look at some options. Thanks again for getting that for me.

    Stu

    Jun 17, 2009

  • Ramesh Sringeri

    CJack, Thanks for your positive feedback on my blog post and comment wall here at Atlanta User Groups. I also would like to thank you for setting this group up. I hope more folks discover Atlanta User Groups and make this a great "hang-out" place. My twitter id is rsringeri

    Jun 26, 2009

  • Scott Moss

    The next ATLANTA SMUG meeting we will be able to give you more than a day notice. Thx for the support!

    Jun 26, 2009

  • William Meyer

    My intention is to attend the .NET group, but I have a conflict tonight.

    Jun 29, 2009

  • Tim Grice

    Thanks CJack, I have found that to be the case all the times I have attended any of the local groups. I just wish I was closer and could attend them all. Do you keep up with the Online times and dates also? I would love to join in to all of them.

    Jun 29, 2009

  • Michael Zadig

    Well, basically I was initially working for a group that wanted an entire middle tier system developed that was front ended by Flash and Flex3 . I wrote an extensive personalization system that had about 30k worth of cold fusion objects backended by mySQL. The manager of the group ran afoul of the VP and essentially got laterally moved. The group was reorged into another group where the manager of that group had an 'allergic' reaction to CF. Consequently, I had to port everything over to .Net 3.5 taking a REST subsystem and mapping that into WCF. So yes, it was defined by the job requirements. Of course, I haven't abandoned CF and have a huge investment in code generation software that I have developed (mostly CF Script focused).

    Jun 29, 2009

  • Michael Zadig

    Actually, it wasn't a personality issue. I didn't disagree with the management decision, since I was the only CF programmer in the whole organization. The new org aligned better with .Net so the shift was logical. Being a contractor, moving to .Net was not a bad thing. I had a significant background in .Net 2 and VB so moving to C# 3 and .Net 3.5 was a plus. In addition, it gave me the opportunity to build a data access object code generator under .Net that translated my access objects from CF to .Net.

    Jun 29, 2009

  • Darrah Brustein

    Thanks for the info!

    Great seeing you today, too!

    Jul 7, 2009

  • Tony UV

    Hope you have a chance to check out Matt Rose this coming Wednesday from Fortify. Should be a good talk on some practical applications for countermeasures in app_sec.

    Jul 25, 2009

  • Jon Jessen

    CheyenneJack,
    Thanks for the comments. Our club has been around since 1981. We are always looking for interest from the local community to come to our meetings. Past speakers have included: Microsoft, McAfee, Gillware Data Recovery, Microcenter, Southeast Computer Forensics, we traditionally have a joint meeting with the Mac user group in December. We are always looking for speakers, and your experience with social networking might fit right in with our broad topic range. Hope to see you at one of our meetings.

    Aug 6, 2009

  • Marsee Henon

    That would be fun. Hopefully there are a few people who have O'Reilly books.

    Aug 26, 2009

  • Andy Anderson

    Thanks Cheyenne - looking to get more involved if my schedule allows it. How's things being going? Looking good so far...

    Sep 19, 2009

  • [email protected]!

    Hello Jack,

    You guessed right! I love everything technology. Anything *NIX, networking, security, etc. Maybe I'll see you out one of these days.

    Oct 25, 2009

  • Jason Noble

    Can you make me an admin for Atlrug? That way I can add meetings and such.

    Oct 26, 2009

  • Russell Campbell

    Hey, look, I finally got your message from July. I'm on top of things, aren't I? We do meet every month, but usually have no December meeting. Very occasionally, we cancel a meeting. I enjoyed meeting you at SEUGLS. When I asked if you played college basketball or football, I was totatally forgetting you went to GT. So you said you played at Tech, was that right? Or was that high school ball you played. Can't remember. Hey, if you get tired of programming, you could always go be a pro wrestler! (Yes, I saw that tweet.)

    Oct 28, 2009

  • John Yavelak

    Thanks!

    Of course interested in PERL.

    Beyond that, we're looking at Selenium here. It appears an option in testing web app's in the non-IE world. It has its limitations, I would like to talk to people using it now...

    But will be at the PERL meeting Thrusday

    Feb 24, 2010

  • Kate Clark

    Thanks for the warm welcome!

    I actually just started my own group the Atlanta Spring User Group http://www.meetup.com/AtlantaSpring/. I'd appreciate any feedback you might have. Thanks!

    Mar 26, 2010

  • Carlos Eduardo Knippschild

    Hey Cheyenne! Thanks for the war welcome! :)

    You mentioned Stephon Cristol... How should I try and contact him? I tried using AUG search but couldn't find him through it. I also tried searching for him in the pyatl related pages. No success either.

    A thought about the site: one thing that was really funny when I first looked at the Python user group page here:

    seeing this: "(...) Currently it is the largest Python Programmers user group in the World."

    and then this: "Members: 6"

    And I just increased the counter by 1 today! :D

    Currently I'm not part of ny user groups around here. A shame... But I intend to fix that up as soon as I get to Atlanta! ;)

    Apr 26, 2010

  • Gary Olsen

    Hey Cheyenne - I think I remember you from the SEUGLS meeting last October. I'd be glad to have you advertise AADUG's meeting next week.

    Gary

    May 12, 2010

  • Rick

    Hey Cheyenne, thanks for checking out MavenMatch.com. We think it's a win for everyone that uses it. Please let any IT contracting professionals you know about us. It's all about finding that next gig and making more money.

    Jun 24, 2010

  • Renata Nedzynski

    Excellent, thanks so very much!

    Jul 30, 2010

  • Matthew

    thanks for the 411. I recently joined SLUG and plan to attend my first meeting soon. Only did a quick browse through Ning but will definitely explore further. MS

    Sep 2, 2010