SXSW - See You There?
South By Southwest Interactive Conference 2008, Austin Texas, WordPress For Dummies Book SigningIn 2006, I was fortunate enough to be asked to speak on a discussion panel about blog design at the South by Southwest Interactive ‘06 conference (SXSWi). I had great fun and met some really cool people. I, unfortunately, did not make the SXSW conference in 2007.
This year, however, I will be attending SXSW Interactive 2008 in March and am fortunate, once again, to be scheduled for a presentation of WordPress For Dummies, followed by a book signing at the SXSW Bookstore on Tuesday March 11th. The time is still to be determined.. if you’re going and are interested, let me know and I’ll keep you updated w/ details as I learn them. (Big thanks to Hugh Forrest for sticking with me and helping me iron out the details)
Funny thing about book signings.. unless you’re Stephen King, or someone of equal notoriety - I always imagined book signings to be something like: *crickets* *crickets* *sip coffee* *more crickets*
Prove me wrong and stop by if you happen to be going to SXSW this year - - I might hand out lollipops, or something. Even if you aren’t interested in WordPress For Dummies.. I’ll be at the conference from March 7th through the 11th.. if you’re planning to attend - I hope to see you there.
Open Call for Talented People
Building websites and WordPress blogs ain’t what it used to be, I’m telling ya! As development on several platforms expands and progress - our clients are seeing some great new uses of these platforms all over the place! Not everyone is happy with the typical blog framework anyore of content on the left, sidebar on the right with the usual Recent Posts, Categories, Archives, Blogroll…and navigation menu on the top.
That is sooooo…. early 2000, isn’t it? We’re looking at a new generation of clients who are seeing phenomenal things happening in the areas of CMS developent and progress adn they are thinking out of the box….things like “Well, I saw a WordPress blog overe here (give sample link) and it has this cool thing where it does THIS… I’d like to see if I can do that, but I want to extend those ideas and maybe have it also do this, that and this other thing… Cool??”
Very cool.. but it’s something that requires some custom development - let’s see what we can do!
This is exciting stuff and it inspires us to keep thinking outside of that boring box toward the effort of creating some really cool stuff. And we’re seeing this more and more.. so our projects keep getting bigger and bigger.