This past week I went to Parent/Teacher Conferences for the boys. It was nice to sit down with each of our teachers and talk about this school year. Here are the highlights: Zachary--2nd grade with Miss Parker. Her first comment about Zach was that he is just so nice to everyone. He is a delight to have in the classroom and she can always count on Zach to get the right answer. She loves that he ...

Are Tweetferences the shape of future conferences. Will we see the attendees Tweeting more and more about what is happening, and non-attendees following the Tweets and perhaps also contributing their thoughts, and access to other resources. A Tweetference is the wider experience that is created around a Conference where there is a critical mass of attendees Tweeting, and sufficient non-attendees ...

So conferences have begun. Maggie had her very first conference this year. I am feeling a little guilty. See, we always compare Mags to what Maura was doing at her age. Now, we pushed Maura ahead when she was little (thus she is repeating preK this year). So Maura was introduced to everything early. What we should be comparing Maggie to is what Maura was doing at her "grade" (I ...

... , inspired and excited about what you do. It can be just the boost you need to really get down to the business of writing. 8. Conferences can give direction to your writing. Some speaker may stir you to ... a published author. Many talented writers started attending conferences AFTER they had been published. Maybe the funds were more readily available then! If location or finances exclude your ...

... a meat eater in a Prius."* But what about a vegan that jets around the globe going to conferences to tell people about carbon footprints? (And no, I didn't ride my bike down to ... , not much seems to happen. This is an intellectual waste, isn't it? How could we redesign conferences to actually accomplish change? A few ideas... 1. The International Development Design Summit intentionally ...

... we start looking at budgets for next year people are already starting to plan what conferences they should attend in 2010. While talking last night we were listing conferences that were valuable ... conference (The Social Media Business Forum ( ) #shamelessplug :). With that being said, what were your top Tech Conferences of 2009 and why? Related posts:The evolution of Twitter: from Tweetups to ...