Minnebar 2008 a Success?

As far as I'm concerned, yes, Minnebar 2008 was a success.

I considered Live blogging again this year, but decided I'd listen to the presentations and participate. Now I have an opportunity to think about the presentations before I give my take on the topics. Over the next few days I hope to hit each of the sessions I attended and recap the session along with my opinions on the topics.

I laid out the sessions I was stoked to attend last week. I attended about half the ones I wanted to. The ones I did decide to go to include:

• Communication For Geeks: How to Influence Your Boss, Your Customers, And Your Team - Lead By: Brian 'Bex' Huff (Bezzotech)
• Design Coding Panel Discussion - Lead By: Ben Edwards (Refactr), Norm Orstad (Slantwise), Mike Bollinger (Livefront), Margaret Andrews (Vita.mn), Darrell Austin (Darrel Austin Designs)
• Enterprise Information Mashups: Web 2.0 + SOA +Data Visulization - Lead By: Jamshid A. Vayghan (blog, bio)
• The spectrum of user experience design and testing: From Full Scale to Quick and Cheap - Lead By: Kevin Farner (Gomoll Research + Design)
• Power WordPress plus MinneWordCamp Discussion - Lead By: Jamie Thingelstad (thingelstad.com - slashthing.com)

I had to leave before the final two sessions, family stuff.

So two final thoughts for this post:

1. Look for my take on these sessions in the coming days.
2. My good friend Ward Tongen is trying to coin the term "SearchBaiting". With that said, I'd love to see the people hosting the sessions I went to today at Minnibar 2008 listed above leave a comment, in the spirit of searchbaiting.

Working Definition of Searchbaiting: The act of leaving clues on the Web (searchbait) so that a targeted person will discover and act on the reference. One who searchbaits of course would be a searchbaiter.