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Webstock in Wellington: It's about story
Posted by Mathew Patterson on February 29, 2008 2:06 PM
Earlier this month I made the short hop across the ocean from Sydney to Wellington, New Zealand, for Webstock 08. Webstock promised "Truckloads of design, development, user experience, web standards, content, community, innovation & inspiration", and certainly delivered.
As well as finding out why they call it windy Wellington, I met a ton of cool people, including some Campaign Monitor and MailBuild customers who had some great feedback for us. In fact, early on day 1, at the registration desk, I spotted a fellow attendee wearing a Campaign Monitor t-shirt!
The conference proper was tremendously well run, great swag, decent food and the main hall featured seating around tables, which I found both different and helpful in talking to people.
Awesome talks from Freshview favourites Dan Cederholm and Kathy Sierra were accompanied with some other great speakers on a variety of topics.
One theme I've noticed starting to take hold in web design and business generally is the idea of 'telling a story', and several speakers focused on that point, including Jason Santa Maria. I expect to see more of this in 2008, including a lot of people helping businesses to craft their own stories.
The two days went by quickly, and too soon I was back in Sydney. Thanks to everyone who came up and said hello, and hello to everybody I met in Wellington (and a special hello to the Indian woman singing 'ice ice baby', to her baby, in the hotel).
Galen King
wrote on March 2, 2008 12:26 PM
Matthew, it was great to meet you. I look forward to continuing to work with you guys. I love your system and am recommending it to more and more clients.
Maybe see you next time 'round.
... and thanks for the t-shirt!
Galen
Vishal
wrote on March 14, 2008 3:21 PM
Are these persentations available online... It will be good to look at them.
Mathew Patterson
wrote on March 15, 2008 7:16 PM
Great to meet you too Galen, and excellent modelling of the Campaign Monitor shirt too!
Vishal, I think the Webstock team will be releasing some presentation materials at http://www.webstock.org.nz in the next couple of weeks.
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