The 3 for 1 Event Wrap Up!
It has been a busy couple of months, full of work, work...work...and conferences. Within in the span of 2 months, a number of big community conference events have taken place in Orlando. Here are the short recaps of the 3 I attended.
It all started in early September with Izeafest. Great speakers filled the Grand Bohemian in downtown O-town. Among them Christopher Schmitt, John Chow and Scott Allen. The great talks focused on blogging from all perspectives, from the casual blogger (like me) to professional I-pay-the-bills-with-my-blog bloggers.
A couple weeks later a few hundred techs and bloggers converged on the Rollins campus in Winter Park for BlogOrlando. This was a local event but it sure didn't seem like it. People came from a couple states away for the one day event that was jammed with social and new media talks. The big stand out sessions for me focused on Wordpress. Eric from xentek.net had a great talk about theming Wordpress with the K2 theme and Mark Jaquith's talk about advanced Wordpress. The parties that bookended the event were great for networking and and meeting the speakers. Overall, awesome event.
The last conference, Create Chaos was by far the biggest and the most relevant to me, being a designer and all... A total of five days filling with everything creative.
The creative industry event Create Chaos 2008 boasts 50+ expert speakers, a 40+ exhibitor Expo Hall centered around a Medici Garden Intersection with inspirational and educational stage presentations, a Job Fair specifically geared toward creative professionals and students, and unique networking parties/events throughout the week.
The real standout presentations were Bill Beachy's Designing for Apparel talk and Christopher Schmit's JQuery for People who Don't Code. This event was huge. The expo hall was packed with sponsors and booths. I easily brought back 30lbs of swag. Fun stat: the expo hall and main room were located in the largest no-column room in the world. Yeah, it was that big.
With so many events being so close together, I was lucky to make it out to as many as I did. Up next? FOWA Miami 2009.....
3 Responses to “The 3 for 1 Event Wrap Up!”
Glad you liked my jQuery talk. It was great to present at both IzeaFest and Create Chaos--even though I don't live in Orlando anymore (moved a few years ago), I love coming back and talking about the Web.
Hey,
It's about time you wrote up about all of this. geez. slacker.
Thak you for the news
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