Join us next Thursday, October 21st, at the Etsy Labs with Derek Powazek and Heather Champ of Fertile Medium to hear all about Things We Learned the Hard Way. There will be snackery and a chance to ask them questions at the end of the talk.

Derek Powazek has worked on the web since 1995. He was creative director of Blogger, Technorati, and Collecta, and wrote Design for Community: The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places (New Riders, 2001). He is the cofounder of JPG Magazine and the Chief of Awesome for HP’s MagCloud, advises a handful of startup companies, and edits Fray, the magazine of true stories and original art.

Heather built her first homepage in 1994 and has worked online ever since. Enamored with photography, she created The Mirror Project (1999–2005), a website that celebrated self-portraiture, and cofounded JPG Magazine, the photography magazine made by its community. She recently left her position as Director of Community at Flickr after 5 years. She never leaves home without a camera or three.