Over the course of May and June, we’ll be taking Webstock on the road. To Christchurch and Auckland. It’s time to share the love around! We’ll be holding a series of workshops and Webstock Minis and, prosaically, we’re calling them the “Webstock autumn series”.
To kick things off, announcement-wise though not chronologically, we’re delighted to say that Garr Reynolds will be coming over in late June to conduct some workshops. Garr is best known for his blog, Presentation Zen and his recently published (and wonderful!) book of the same name. Garr is on a crusade against bad presentations, and writes lucidly, engaging and evocatively about how to make them better. His workshops will help you make your presentations better, and he’ll be speaking at Webstock Minis, so you’ll be able to see him in action.
Garr has worked at Apple, he’s consulted for Duarte Design, who put together Al Gore’s Keynote presentation on global warming, and his book carries recommendations from Guy Kawasaki and Seth Godin, among others. We’re really looking forward to having Garr here in June!
It was, as I’d hoped, a most excellent, inspiring, re-energising and fun conference — just like the first. The crew behind Webstock managed something that isn’t as common as we hope it to be in NZ.. which was to prove it wasn’t a fluke and pull it off for a second time.
The conference proper was tremendously well run, great swag, decent food and the main hall featured seating around tables, which I found both different and helpful in talking to people.
Molly Holzschlag Interview [20 minutes] from Webstock 08 covering interoperability, HTML 5, Internet Explorer 8 version targeting, and web professionalism.
Speaker Scott Berkun thought we did some things right:
the webstock bag doesn’t look like a conference bag: it looked so good I had to ask twice to make sure it was the conference bag, and not some special prize.
… The t-shirt …
Came in women’s and men’s versions. Why should I care as a man? Well, I confess: I like to look at women. Especially when they’re wearing clothes meant to fit their curvy figures. I always hear people complain about the low numbers of women at design and tech conferences. Well, maybe if they followed some of webstock’s ideas, more women would be interested in finding out about their conferences.
