http://www.webstock.org.nz/ New Zealand main conferences returns to Wellington, New Zealand. This time sees 24 international speakers. The themes of this confernce are web design, development, mobile, UX, content, community, open data, innovation & inspiration from Eric Ries, Kevin Rose, Daniel Burka, Esther Derby and more.....
Day one as been and gone. The best speaker of the day by a country mile was the loveable Shelley Bernstein (http://www.webstock.org.nz/10/speakers/bernstein.php). Shelley is the Chief of Technology at the Brooklyn Museum where she works to further the Museum's community-oriented mission through projects. Shelly walked us though her amazing job to bring commmunity to the Museum ( and on bugger all budget ) with tools like Twitter , Facebook , Flickr.
The other presenters were a mixed bag, maybe lending to the more techical side of the Wonder World of Web so *maybe* causing a narrowing effect of topic interest.... But strong views come though on -
UX: we need to pull our socks ...
mobile's market is 1/55 of world GDP - its the more important thing to happen to the future of web.
Open data & mircoformats are a happening thing. Jump on the wagon folks !
Scott Thomas ( 2nd best speaker on the day ) went over his work on the Obama Presidential campaign where he was design director. Scott walked us though a classic process of design but was using all the lovely tools of the new web .... nice job ( and he is writing a book about it currently)