<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">From our blog, <A href="http://webpub.mit.edu">http://webpub.mit.edu</A></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">The </FONT><A href="http://www.web2expo.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC5D5B">Web 2.0 Expo</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> out in San Francisco wrapped up yeseterday. Check out all the </FONT><A href="http://www.web2expo.com/pub/w/53/tracks.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC5D5B">tracks and seminars </FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">they had, this thing was HUGE. I’m totally putting this conference on my continuing education wish list for next year.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> It sounds amazing…not only did they have some cool speakers (how about </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.web2expo.com/cs/webex2007/view/e_spkr/416"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC5D5B">Tim O’Reilly</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> and </FONT><A href="http://www.web2expo.com/cs/webex2007/view/e_spkr/596"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#236796">Eric Schmidt</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> for starters?) but also in depth workshops (</FONT><A href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/webex2007/view/e_sess/10780"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#236796">Ruby on Rails</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, </FONT><A href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/webex2007/view/e_sess/10579"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#236796">Search Engine Optimization</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> and </FONT><A href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/53/workshops.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC5D5B">more</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">) for a “first hand opportunity to master the power of Web 2.0 technologies.” That’s the way I like to learn, jumping right on in!</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> Thankfully they are posting some of the </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.web2expo.com/pub/w/53/presentations.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC5D5B">speaker presentations online</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> The really cool thing about the Expo was how they practiced what they preached about living the Web 2.0 life. They had </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><A href="http://twitter.com/w2e"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC5D5B">live Twitter updates</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, a </FONT><A href="http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/web_20_expo/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC5D5B">conference news blog</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, </FONT><A href="http://blog.web2expo.com/2007/04/web_20_expo_liv.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC5D5B">livecasting</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, a </FONT><A href="https://www.socialtext.net/web2wiki/index.cgi"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC5D5B">wiki</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, a </FONT><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/sets/72157600080666307/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC5D5B">flickr photo gallery</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">, and a </FONT><A href="http://cal.web2expo.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC5D5B">social calendar</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> with tag clouds to popular tags and speakers. Really interesting to see how the conference world is integrating this new web world!</FONT></DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><BR></SPAN><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Care to comment on this post? Visit <A href="http://webpub.mit.edu/?p=34">http://webpub.mit.edu/?p=34</A></DIV><DIV>And remember, send your items of interest along to <A href="mailto:webpub@mit.edu">webpub@mit.edu</A>!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>See you 'round the 'net</DIV><DIV>lisa</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Lisa C. Mayer</DIV><DIV>Web and Database Consultant, DCAD</DIV><DIV>Information Services and Technology (IS&T)</DIV><DIV>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</DIV><DIV>Room N42-240C</DIV><DIV>Cambridge, MA 02139</DIV><DIV>617-452-4225</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:lmayer@mit.edu">lmayer@mit.edu</A></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>