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This episode is all about conferences. How do we get funding? How often do we get to go? How do we select a conference? We also reminisce (again) about how great SXSW used to be.
- Daniel at HighEdWeb in Memphis
- Double-ken
- What makes a good conference?
- SXSW with a lot of variety and a great social aspect to meet others and network
- UXDev Summit
- How are conferences funded in our areas?
- Iowa Libraries: a set budget that can be spent until it’s gone per person/year
- UALR: provides training to support services with one conference per year. The budget isn’t ever clear.
- Iowa Admissions: we have Admissions-specific conferences and maybe (based on funding) can go to a larger conference outside of higher ed.
- GVSU: gets one conference per year
- Many times the non-higher-ed conferences provide better information because they are working on a larger world scale, when we in higher-ed sometimes get lost in our higher-ed protected bubble.
- What is the best (non) SXSW conference you’ve been to?
- Smashing Conference – single-track conference with really great speakers
- HighEdWeb recommends to not stick with a single track aligned with your job
- SXSW has a voting system for picking their speakers. It just got too big for it’s pants! 2014, SXSW saw roughly 400,000 people attend official festival events!!!
- HighEdWeb Upcoming Tracks (looking forward to)
- Rest
- Slack Workshop
- Digital Signage
- Web Components
- Stop treating your website like it’s a project
Urban Dictionary Word of the Day: “Wake Me Up Inside” syndrome