I'm at the 802.11 Planet conference in Philadelphia. Right now I'm sitting in on Alan Reiter's presentation on leveraging 802.11 for conferences and meetings. I walked in quite late so I'm not sure what Alan discussed during the first 45 minutes. Right now, we're discussing blogs and journalism.
I'm a little disappointed because it's not a point by point pros, cons, how to's, etc. Instead it's more anectdotal. Not what I expected for a workshop.
He is mentioning bits and pieces, but you have to listen to all the anectdotal stuff to get to the actual nitty gritty info.
He's also discussing Dave Wiener's (I think it was Dave) idea concerning conference weblogs. Another good idea. I'm surprised one is not setup for this conference. Probably the idea is so new that the group infrastructure is not there - Alan said that very thing. This would be a good thing. I'd love to follow a conference blog.
Alan just showed the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference blog site. Nice site. Cute story about EtherPeg - a little program that tracks sites folks visit. The O'Reilly sysadmin posted site snapshots of all the sites visited by conference attendees. Very funny - people were not paying attention.
Instant Polling at conferences - a good idea. I wonder if speakers and organizers are ready for instant feedback.
Alan also mentioned Colligo - a wireless collaboration application. I've heard of them before - I believe from Megnut when she was in Anchorage. I really would like to look into it.
Overall I'm not super thrilled with this session - I had hoped for quite a bit more substance. Some good little nuggets but no real nitty gritty.
Note - Alan just asked if folks blogged meetings. I was the only one who raised my hand. I stated I blogged this session. I then went on to state I'd hoped for a more technical discussion. He stated that he had probably mis-advertised the session - it was meant to be more general. Knowing me, it was probably advertised that way and I misread it.
Alan just made the killer comment - the smart cellular operator will do both GPRS and 802.11b. He mentioned the BT initiative to put in over 400 802.11 hotspots. Yup. I personally am not sure carriers doing widespread hotspots. But I digress.
Now we're getting into a discussion of GPRS and 802.11b pros and cons. Billing infrastructure, seamless logon, etc.
Based on the audience, I really think I misread the description of this session - many of the attendees asking questions seem to be fairly new to 802.11b wireless market strategies.
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