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Web 2.0 Expo: Shout Out
Today was opening day at O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The place was buzzin’ with all the electric energy associated with this space. I popped in and out of quite a few workshop sessions throughout the day. The diversity in presentation content and presenter effectiveness was astonishing. It is hard to take anything as sizzling hot as Web 2.0 and make it dry and dull, but quite a few managed to hurl themselves over that bar. I think it is worth giving a shout out to Trisha Okubo (Omiru.com) for opening a can of whoop-ass and keeping her audience on the edge of their seats during her blog workshop. That sista’ stole the show. What made Trisha such a standout at a conference filled with a bunch of standouts? Quite simply, she was witty, insightful, relevant, fast-paced and self-effacing — a fantastic mixture of attributes that propelled her presentation into the stratosphere. Anyone who describes themselves as “short with no waist” has more balls than…well you know where I’m going with this point.
I look forward to the rest of the Expo. If you didn’t make it out to this one, I highly recommend you make it to the Web 2.0 Expo in New York in September.
Any attendees out there who want to share their perspective?
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the presentation–and I hope you find the rest of Web 2.0 Expo entertaining. Rock on, Kel!
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:22 am
It seems all the fun with web 2.0 is out west. I’m not out there, but I am gearing up for ROFLcon.org’s inaugural event on the campus of MIT this weekend. I wasn’t able to secure a ticket into the event but I’ve pulled a few strings so we’ll see how much of the event I can get access to. I’ll be sure to have a full report to Karen on Monday. Enjoy sunny San Fran.
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:28 am
lenny — good luck sneaking into the event. one of the great things about web 2.0 (the technolgy vs. the conference) is that most of the presentations will be on slideshare. i suggest you go to the web 2.0 expo website, look up the sessions, find ones that interest you and then look for the presentations on slideshare. it’s almost as good as being here.
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:09 am
Here is the slideshare of Trisha’s fantastic preso from this AM:
http://www.slideshare.net/trishaokubo/blogging-for-personal-branding/
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
thanks for the slideshare link delynator! i couldn’t find them on slideshare when i wrote the post. the slide content will be great, but everyone should know it was trisha’s personality that stole the show! again, many thanks…