Gratitude, thoughts

Again, I want to thank God and all who help me get through a day.

I am thankful that I survived the Philly conference. Here are some thoughts on the Philly conference. Content management sessions appear to be getting some good coverage. Some items of interest.

- Building your Content Management Skills, Ann Rockley
- Vendor Panel: Successful Content Management, Ann Rockley

It has been several years since I attended or presented at a conference, so I wondered what was new. I'm finding a combination of new and old so far in the program. As expected, the new of the conference involved coverage of new topics and technologies to show what is currently going on in the field. There is also some sameness of years past with the basic format of a keynote speaker, presentations, awards on display, vendor booths, and networking at meals and other events.

Rockley's sessions on content management did not disappoint.

As usual, the displays from award winners and vendors were interesting. Technology consultant Howard Rheingold delivered the keynote address. Rheingold teaches digital journalism at Stanford. At USC-Berkley he teaches something called virtual community and social media. I asked myself how someone gets to teach something like that. Maybe someday I could do this. It is likely that that would be in my dreams or maybe in my next life. Then, again, as I like to tell myself, there is always hope.

A totally new experience for me this year was the awards banquet. I cannot thank enough the people in NEO STC cheering section and people involved overall in the associate fellow nomination process. I truly look forward to cheering on in the future a large number of new associate fellows from NEO STC.

Technology consultant Howard Rheingold is keynote address speaker. Reingold teaches digital journalism at Stanford. At USC-Berkley he teaches something called virtual community and social media. I asked myself how someone gets to teach something like that. Maybe someday I could do this. It is likely that that would be in my dreams or maybe in my next life. Then, again, as I like to tell myself, there is always hope.

Technology consultant Howard Rheingold delivered the keynote address. In addition to being a consultant, Reingold teaches digital journalism at Stanford. At USC-Berkley he teaches something called virtual community and social media. I asked myself how someone gets to teach something like that. Maybe someday I could do this. that would be in my dreams, or maybe in my next life.

Was he a good choice to give us a keynote? Technology consultant Howard Rheingold delivered the keynote address at the opening session. Rheingold is credited with inventing the term virtual communities. He served as the founding executive editor of Wired magazine’s HotWired, the first commercial Webzine to introduce the Web-based discussion forum and online banner.

He teaches digital journalism at Stanford University and virtual community and social media at the University of California at Berkeley. He has previously taught participatory media and collective action at Berkeley and has also taught at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University in Leicester, United Kingdom.

Electric Minds, the Web site he founded in 1996, was named one of Time magazine’s “Best Web sites of 1996.” As the author of Tools for Thought (1985), The Virtual Community (1991), and Smart Mobs (2002), Rheingold, a 1968 graduate of Oregon’s Reed College, predicted the future of computers and the Internet.

Smart Mobs, named one of the “big ideas” of 2002 by The New York Times Magazine, explored how the merger of mobile communications, pervasive computing, and the Internet would lead to new forms of collective action.

Rheingold’s weekly newspaper column, “Tomorrow,” was syndicated internationally by King Features, and he has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including Today; Good Morning America; ABC’s Primetime Live; CNN, CBS, and NBC News; The MacNeil-Lehrer Report; and National Public Radio’s Fresh Air and Marketplace.

He has lectured in a variety of countries as well as at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oxford University, and Stanford University.

He teaches digital journalism at Stanford University and virtual community and social media at the University of California at Berkeley. He has previously taught participatory media and collective action at Berkeley and has also taught at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University in Leicester, United Kingdom.

Rheingold’s recent work examines the ways in which the mobile phone, computers, and wireless Internet are changing the way we conduct our lives—not only how we meet and entertain, but how we govern and conduct business. Rheingold uses stories, case histories, and researched forecasts to present organizations and audiences with the information they need to understand how their lifestyles and businesses will be affected by future trends and technologies.

Author and technology consultant Howard Rheingold will deliver the keynote address at the opening session of the 2008 Technical Communication Summit, to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 1–4.

Rheingold is credited with inventing the term virtual communities. He served as the founding executive editor of Wired magazine’s HotWired, the first commercial Webzine to introduce the Web-based discussion forum and online banner. Electric Minds, the Web site he founded in 1996, was named one of Time magazine’s “Best Web sites of 1996.” As the author of Tools for Thought (1985), The Virtual Community (1991), and Smart Mobs (2002), Rheingold, a 1968 graduate of Oregon’s Reed College, predicted the future of computers and the Internet. Smart Mobs, named one of the “big ideas” of 2002 by The New York Times Magazine, explored how the merger of mobile communications, pervasive computing, and the Internet would lead to new forms of collective action.

Rheingold’s weekly newspaper column, “Tomorrow,” was syndicated internationally by King Features, and he has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including Today; Good Morning America; ABC’s Primetime Live; CNN, CBS, and NBC News; The MacNeil-Lehrer Report; and National Public Radio’s Fresh Air and Marketplace. He has lectured in a variety of countries as well as at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oxford University, and Stanford University.

He teaches digital journalism at Stanford University and virtual community and social media at the University of California at Berkeley. He has previously taught participatory media and collective action at Berkeley and has also taught at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University in Leicester, United Kingdom.

Rheingold’s recent work examines the ways in which the mobile phone, computers, and wireless Internet are changing the way we conduct our lives—not only how we meet and entertain, but how we govern and conduct business. Rheingold uses stories, case histories, and researched forecasts to present organizations and audiences with the information they need to understand how their lifestyles and businesses will be affected by future trends and technologies.