Sep 17th, 2009 |
A recession is a great time for us to learn new tricks. If you’re looking to increase your value to your company (or as a freelancer or entrepreneur), you need to get in touch with the right teachers and take the right courses. Whether you are a developer, designer, or social media strategist, you can find both gurus and focused sessions at the Expo covering everything you need to learn to increase your potential.
Better yet, we’ve organized a quick list of 7 essential sessions for each of these three specialties to help guide you on your journey.
If these lists don’t suit your fancy (or don’t necessarily apply to your career), message us on Twitter @W2E to ask for help in deciding which sessions to attend. If you’re getting the free Expo Hall Only pass (discount code: webny09snex), we can help point you to all the great free events at Web 2.0 Expo, including our popular unconference, Web2Open. You’re also encouraged to send us your own personalized Web 2.0 Expo schedule to help others decide what to attend. Either post your list in the comments, on our Facebook Fan Page, or just Tweet it to us. Check out the conference schedule to put yours together.
See you in New York!
Developers’ Essential 7 Sessions for Upping Your Game
1) Mobile App Stores: The Developers’ Perspectives
2) The Software Systems That Scale Twitter
3) Best and Worst Practices Building Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) from Adobe and Microsoft
4) HTML5: Open Web Graphics, Animation and Video with SVG
5) Best Practices for Building Cross-Browser Addons
6) Improving Front-End Performance in Mature Web Apps
7) Latency Trumps All
For You Designers: 7 Sessions to a Better Look, Feel, and UX
1) CSS3 for Working Web Designers
2) Good Design Faster
3) Thinking Visually
4) Bootstrap Usability: Enhancing Your Product on a Shoestring Budget
5) Designing the Experience Curve
6) The Human Interface (or: Products are People, Too!)
7) Sketchboards & Prototyping—Methods for Rapid Design
7 Sessions to Improve Your Social Media Strategy
1) Business and Community in the Facebook Era: Preparing for a New Kind of Customer Relationship
2) Let’s Get Engaged! The New Customer Relationship Landscape
3) Marketing via Fan Boys/Fan Girls: Your Customers As Your Brand Evangelists
4) They Shall Know Us By Our Dialtone
5) Social Media Protocols: What You Need to Know BEFORE Your Team Starts Posting, Tweeting and Commenting
6) Effective Twitter for Business
7) Sparking a Crush: Attracting and Retaining New Users
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Kaitlin Pike is the new Community Manager for Web 2.0 Expo. She can be reached @W2E
