Conference Time

It is that time of the year again, I am off to four con­fer­ences, three in Sydney and a num­ber of social occa­sions in the next 11 weeks.

First up is OZIA, on the 20 & 21 Septem­ber. I am really look­ing for­ward to this one, I have enjoyed the past two OZIAs and they have been real learn­ing exper­i­ences for me.

Then it is of to Web Dir­ec­tion South on 25 & 26 Septem­ber, though before that I could attend Web 2.0 Exec­ut­ive Boot­camp, unless some­body needs it more than me. If you are a man­ager or leader in gov­ern­ment or busi­ness and are look­ing at adopt­ing Web 2.0 tools and prac­tices in your busi­ness and hap­pen to be in Sydney on 23 Septem­ber, head over to Incent­ive redux — free pass to Web 2.0 Exec­ut­ive Boot­camp and tell Stephen why. The only com­pet­i­tion for the free ticket at the moment is me and if you beat me out, there will be no hard feel­ings, I am no executive.

On the even­ing of 24 Septem­ber there is Port 80 Sydney and 25 Septem­ber there is Aus­sie TUB which clashed with Web­Jam, bug­ger. The last couple of Web Dir­ec­tions, have been more of a social events with a dash of inspir­a­tion and couple of present­a­tions that made my think and I don’t expect this year will be different.

3 weeks later I am back in Sydney for the MySo­urce Mat­rix User Con­fer­ence on Octo­ber 16 & 17. This time I am present­ing, it will be a quick run down of the forth­com­ing State Lib­rary of WA web­site, the details on it’s inform­a­tion archi­tec­ture includ­ing the pro­cess and decisions involved as well as the fea­tures of MySo­urce Mat­rix used to achieve the res­ult. As with most con­fer­ences, the really inter­est­ing con­ver­sa­tions are between the ses­sions and at the end of the day. What should be more inter­est­ing than last year, is more people will be doing show and tell on their MySo­urce Mat­rix websites.

Then is back to Perth for Edge of the Web on Novem­ber 6. A fully fledged web con­fer­ence in my home town. I am not sure exactly what to expect. I have seen most of the presenter in action before and they are all good, the sched­ule requires some tough decisions and it will be a good con­fer­ence. I hope it has that buzz that happened at Web Essen­tials 05 or OZIA 2007 that will make it a spe­cial conference.

If you hap­pen to be at any of these con­fer­ences or social events, then come up and say Hi, I am not that dif­fi­cult to spot, I do look like my pro­file photo/avatar and being a shame­less self pro­moter you should be able to spot my crumpler or that tshirt I don’t bite, honest.

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