Live Blogging Plone Conference 2008

Somehow I was chosen to live blog the Plone 2008 Conference for CMSWire. A very important job for Plone's visibility so I'm still confused as to how I ended up with the responsibility. Never the less, I gave it my best, and learned a bit in the process.

Live blogging is hard! I've never been one to take notes while I'm listening to something. I always write down just the highlights, not everything. With so many exciting presentations, it was really really hard to make sure I picked up on every little detail. Further more, a lot of sessions were really over my head, technically speaking. I was pushing myself to grasp just the basics in several talks.

Only live blog when you have decent wifi. Yeah, the wifi was a bit sketchy, no thanks at all the the Reagan Center staff for fixing it. Our own people had to come in and set up routers. At least we're a resourceful bunch. When you don't have wifi, blogging live isn't really an option. I wrote as if I were live blogging and posted later but I felt as if I was playing catch up the rest of the day.

Lessons learned? Well I have a lot more to learn before I decide to live blog again, that's for sure! Maybe I'll stick to twitter for my live stuff. I'll live tweet the conference next year, how about that? But next year, lets make sure someone on the marketing team for Plone does this. It's far too important to be left up to a newbie like me! I have even more respect for Scott Paley, who live blogged for Plone conference 2007. You, my friend, are far better suited for this than I am. Ah well. It was a good experience and I'm glad I was at least a little bit of service to the community.

For the list of posts, go to CMSWire.