Speaking at Webmaster Jam Session
Yesterday I returned from Dallas Texas, where I was speaking on Webmaster Jam Session conference. Guys from Coffecup did an awesome job organizing the conference and inviting really nice speakers. I was actually a little bit intimidated to speak together with all those famous people.
All in all the conference was very informative and had that warm feeling where you know it’s all about people. You can almost see how web and technologies on web are turning into things that actually care more about providing people best and comfortable tools and experiences. And it was really pleasing to see that developers and designers really understand and value that. A lot of things were discussed and learned. Eric Meyer opened conference with his speech “A Decade of Style”. He really deserves the title CSS guru and you can see how passionate he is about the subject.
I really enjoyed Jared Spool’s speech on how users navigate through sites. I read his paper on this before but hearing it from him directly was so much better and much more fun.
Great presentation from Nick Finck, on layout standards and techniques.
Unfortunately I couldn’t attend all the sessions. Conference was divided in two rooms and everybody had to pick which sessions to attend. I was talking about user experience in ecommerce on session named “ecommerce for everyday people” with John Fallon. We were competing with Andy Budd for attention from attendees. He gave his speech “Be a Web Design Superhero” at the same time and let’s face it he won. But we still had a nice size audience and it gave the session even more of a warm feeling.
Daren Ward did a great job speaking about search engine optimization. He is really a SEO genius. Bryan Veloso talked about photoshop tips and tricks and although he said he doesn’t usually present in public he did a great job. All in all it was an awesome event and I was very pleased with both audience and speakers. Organizers did an incredibly great job with everything and frankly speaking I can’t wait till the next webjam session.
For those who are interested, I’m planning on writing an article based on what I used for my speech. So hang on in there. It’s coming.
And by the way there are some nice pictures from the conference
I went through all the pictures and the only picture of myself I could find is actually the first one in the set
That’s a solid cactus t-shirt I was wearing. Here is more about the t-shirt
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Sep 25, 12:22 AM |