Web Directions North

You will see some advert­ising for Web Dir­ec­tions North around this blog, the reason is that one lucky per­son who pro­motes WDN08 on their site will win a free ticket to WDN08, accom­mod­a­tion and air­fares. See­ing I hope to go to SXSW this time, win­ning this is the only way I get to Van­couver next year.

OK I have done the com­mer­cial dis­clos­ure bit, so why am I inter­ested in going, well in addi­tion to the fun social­iz­ing bit, in the speaker lineup we have Jef­frey Zeld­man and Tara Hunt. I just want to see Zeld­man speak. Tara delivered a really inter­est­ing key­note present­a­tion at GOVIS in NZ entitled Gov­ern­ment 2.0 archi­tect­ing for col­lab­or­a­tion,
slides video, blog post with links to video embed­ded in present­a­tion. Yes I am a fan of that present­a­tion and even though I have seen the video a couple of times, I want to see it live and also see how it has evolved over a year.

In addi­tion Tara and Chris Mess­ina are deliv­er­ing a full day work­shop The Enter­prise & Gov­ern­ment in the 2.0 era: what’s next?, this is a work­shop I really want to attend (Max­ine are you listen­ing, any chance of Tara and Chris for WDS08?). Like most Web Dir­ec­tion work­shops I have atten­ded in the past, I expect that if I attend, I will know most of morn­ing ses­sion as they gen­er­ally ease people less famil­iar with the sub­ject mat­ter into the groove. It is the gems in the after­noon ses­sions and the chance to dis­cuss the mater­ial with other attendees that is of great value to me. And in Aus­tralia, when will you get the chance to dis­cuss Gov­ern­ment 2.0 with oth­ers try­ing or think­ing about imple­ment­ing it.

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