I’m still recovering from three intense days at the Banff Centre, taking part in the CanUX Forum. The original motivation was to learn more about user experience, usability, and design. I learned enough about that to fill my brain, and also learned ideas for brainstorming, the relation between creativity and muscle memory, and how sometimes [...]
Tagged canux08The Executive Women’s Forum is a conference put on for women involved in information security at a leadership/executive level, and I had the chance to go for the first time this year. I’ve never been to an all-women conference before and although I have mixed feelings (it is, after all, inherently discriminatory to exclude men) [...]
It seems that August is conference season, at least for me. More precisely, one week in August. First Balisage in Montréal (for which the online registration is closing next Friday) August 12-15, and then Vinocamp here in Vancouver, at the UBC Botanical Garden, on August 16th. I’m speaking at the former, and helping organise the [...]
Tagged balisageConference08, Vancouver, vinocampSummer wouldn’t be summer without a summer conference or two. There’s something about walking the streets or sitting in cafes, talking about technology, in balmy weather (well, when it doesn’t rain like it did at last year’s CSW XML Summer School in Oxford). This year I’m off to Montréal for Balisage in the middle of [...]
Tagged balisageConference08Balisage is this new XML++1 geekfest, put on by some of the people who used to put on the Extreme Markup conference, which is aimed to get the brain cells running again after summer. It’s being held in Montréal in the middle of August, which means all those street-level restaurants, and brushing up on French [...]
Tagged balisage, montrealI just got back from the NorthernVoice organizing committee’s post-conference lunch. The conference motto is personal blogging and social media but lots of people who attend or speak are interested in the professional or corporate aspect as well. As a result, one of the perennial topics we talk about is who the conference is for, [...]
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