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xylieMy visit to the 51st state provided a lot of professional insight and some great recommendations for tools and books. It's always good to have someone besides Amazon suggest a reading list. The Content Strategy Workshop was held this year at UBC Robson in Vancouver, directly downtown. The hotel I stayed at, The Sutton Place Hotel, was very close to campus and afforded me the chance to walk around downtown Vancouver and visit various shops along the way.
All in all a wonderful opportunity that gave me a chance to do what I like best, attend lectures, apply theories, and met energetic professionals and talk about their fields. One woman I met handles the structured XML for the Olympics. Apparently since a snafu in the 1990s, the IOC insists that the cities handling the Olympics put their text into XML and provide structured information to the various countries, news agencies, and local groups that require it. It's an exhausting job and she spent a year in London most recently.
Where she joined the society of bell ringers as a way to blow off steam. Not having many bells on the west coast, she counted herself fortunate in being able to ring bells in both Vancouver and Seattle.
Another woman handles User Experience (UX) for universities, trying to help them understand how students navigate the labyrinth of applications, registration, and course evaluation for various audiences. She used to give walking tours of Paris in a previous life and sometimes misses the out of doors experience.
There were many more fascinating people, but it's back to the grind.
All in all a wonderful opportunity that gave me a chance to do what I like best, attend lectures, apply theories, and met energetic professionals and talk about their fields. One woman I met handles the structured XML for the Olympics. Apparently since a snafu in the 1990s, the IOC insists that the cities handling the Olympics put their text into XML and provide structured information to the various countries, news agencies, and local groups that require it. It's an exhausting job and she spent a year in London most recently.
Where she joined the society of bell ringers as a way to blow off steam. Not having many bells on the west coast, she counted herself fortunate in being able to ring bells in both Vancouver and Seattle.
Another woman handles User Experience (UX) for universities, trying to help them understand how students navigate the labyrinth of applications, registration, and course evaluation for various audiences. She used to give walking tours of Paris in a previous life and sometimes misses the out of doors experience.
There were many more fascinating people, but it's back to the grind.
