Category: conferences

Conference by the dashboard lights

With so many conference-goers using Twitter to stream their reactions to conference keynotes, workshops and presentations, Chris Brogan‘s suggestion to create a web-enabled dashboard customized to your conference experience. Riffing off Christopher Penn’s idea for creating a social media dashboard, Brogan applies the concept to a conference. Using an interface like iGoogle or NetVibes, creating this type of info-tool would be a pretty simple task. Add in some feeds and there you have it.

Here’s what Brogan’s conference dashboard looks like.

Who knows? Maybe you could even create a dashboard for virtual conferences, like the upcoming PR School 2.0, at which [gratuitous flogging] I’ll be co-presenting [/gratuitous flogging]. This type of dashboard could also work to virtually follow events you aren’t able to attend in person.

While we’re on the subject of conferences, check out Brogan’s sage advice for people who attend conferences.

eduWEB 2008

Seems like all the cool kids in higher ed are at the eduWEB Conference, which wraps up today in Atlantic City, N.J.

Lots of bloggage and tweetage is emanating from the conference, much of it good (see links below). But perhaps the most important and underreported story — from this blogger’s perspective, anyway — is the fact that Missouri S&T’s Name Change Conversations blog won the eduStyle Award for best institutional blog. I learned about this award via a direct tweet from Kyle James (nom de tweet: @jameskm03. (Hats off also to the College of William and Mary’s re:web blog, which won the people’s choice award in that same category.)

But enough gratuitous wallowing in my 15 seconds of Internet fame. On to the important eduWEB links.

  1. Karine Joly is posting like crazy, with the help of other eduWEB participants. Check the series of eduWEB in 140 words posts at CollegeWebEditor.com.
  2. Kyle James’ presentation on email marketing.
  3. If 140 words a post is just too much for you (and if that’s the case then you haven’t read this far), then visit Twitter’s #eduweb2008 backchannel for updates, links, comments, critique, etc. in 140 characters or fewer from all the tweeting participants.
  4. Brad Ward posts a nice reading list inspired by the conference. It’s a little heavy on the Seth Godin books (albeit no Purple Cow, oddly), but to each his own.

That’s it for now. Off to a meeting.

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