Enhanced Conference Strategy

Considered Technologies

Below are listed some of the technologies we'll probably use for the conference.

TECHNOLOGY/
TIMELINE

Before

During

After

Location-Aware

- Google Maps

- Foursquare for each room
- QR Codes, per-room web schedule

- Let it die ;-)

Social Media

- Twitter
- Facebook Event
- LinkedIn

- Twitter schedule (SocialOomph)
- Yahoo pipes (aggregator)

- Promote knowledge nuggets

Video

- Teasers:
-- Use videos from previous years
-- Interviews with presenters

- Professional: keynote and featured
- Citizen journalism for everything else
- Streaming?

- Post-editing of pieces of interest

Other Web 2.0

- Suggestions on Facilitate.com (https://secure.facilitate.com/4DAction/FC/AccessMain?User-N1N5*ODX2)
- Lanyrd.com
- Confluence spaces
- Slideshare
- Social bookmarking (Diigo, Digg, Delicious, Reddit)

- Bump
- Flickr + Eye-Fi
- Google Moderator
- WhenIsGood for dine-around sign-up

- Archive highlights
- Blog posts

From Previous Conferences

Denver UStream Dashboard (2010): https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/CONF2010/UStream+Channels
Boston (2009): http://anythinginstructional.blogspot.com/2009/07/citizen-journalism-follow-up-from-sakai.html