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360Flex, done!

Posted on | March 7, 2007 | 10 Comments

Now the hard part, starting over again for the next one, AND using what we learned to make that conference better!

We’re already looking at the survey results and are incredibly pleased with the criticisms! Give us more, like the survey says, be brutal. We won’t know what to fix until you guys all tell us. The praise is good too, keep it comin’ by all means :)

Time for a bullet list. My 360Flex take-aways

  • Ryan Stewart is a lightweight :-P  (Ryan knows I love him, he’s my only superstar friend!)
  • Sim Batemen is my hero too, Jen
  • Conferences are hard, i might have said it before but I can’t double-click that enough
  • Running a conference is frakkin’ great! I love it. I love that you guys had a good time, I love that the community not only got a little bigger with the 101 track but that it also got smaller. Blogs now have faces, IM IDs are now people we’ve had drinks with. That’s great!
  • Twitter as a back channel, hotness!! Pretty sure not it’s intended use, and also pretty sure we killed a few servers this week, sorry Twitter team, but the back channel is the bomb!
  • Food and beer might possibly make a conference!
  • Speakers are rarely prepared, and never give up their sessions in advance, because they don’t have them.
  • Lastly, you can’t please everyone, but damned if we’re not gonna keep tryin’

See everyone in six or so months. :D

Category: EffectiveUI

Comments

10 Responses to “360Flex, done!”

  1. Renaun Erickson
    March 7th, 2007 @ 12:00 am

    Thanks for the great conference and great time! Keep the Flex conferences coming.

  2. Anthony
    March 8th, 2007 @ 12:00 am

    Great work John!! You, Tom and Ted did a great job. Need any help in the future you know you have Petey and I ready!

  3. Randy
    March 8th, 2007 @ 11:00 am

    John you did a great job on the conference, everybody I have spoken with got a lot out of it. Food was the bomb too! Thank you again, I'm looking froward to 360Flex Pacific Northwest ;o)

  4. John Wilker
    March 8th, 2007 @ 12:00 pm

    @Ryan

    No worries, we'll make sure next time we hang, you get a chance to redeem yourself, I think that sounds fair, no?

  5. Jen
    March 9th, 2007 @ 12:00 am

    Looking forward to 360flex in the Pac NW. Did you hear they have direct flights from Denver to Bend/Redmond? ;)

  6. Ryan Stewart
    March 9th, 2007 @ 12:00 am

    I hang my head in lightweight shame ;)

    It was great to finally meet face to face though. Great conference guys!

  7. John Wilker
    March 9th, 2007 @ 12:00 am

    @Ryan

    No worries, we’ll make sure next time we hang, you get a chance to redeem yourself, I think that sounds fair, no?

  8. Randy
    March 9th, 2007 @ 12:00 am

    John you did a great job on the conference, everybody I have spoken with got a lot out of it. Food was the bomb too! Thank you again, I’m looking froward to 360Flex Pacific Northwest ;o)

  9. Jeffry Houser
    March 9th, 2007 @ 12:00 am

    When you invite me to speak at 360Flex Next :cough, cough, cough: I guarantee to be prepared in advance.

    Have you told how convenient Connecticut is to Boston *AND* New York yet?

  10. John Wilker
    March 9th, 2007 @ 12:00 am

    @Jeff

    LOL

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