MinneBar 2008

So I'll be attending MinneBar 2008 at Coffman Union on Saturday, May 10, 2008.

I'm excited to go this year, I had to miss last year, but I was at the first MinneBar in 2006. Several of my co-workers are going this year as well which only makes the lunch hours that more exciting after the event.

The sessions I'm stoked to attend are:

• 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), more TBD
• Social Search in the Corporate Environment - Lead By: Rich Hoeg (Project Report from my Blog)
• CSS frameworks when and why to use them - Lead By: Norm Orstad and ???(Slantwise Design)
• Wordpress as a Content Management System - Lead By: Toby Cryns (The Mighty Mo! Design Co.)

So why these sessions?

Brian 'Bex" Huff just sounds cool. He's from Stellent, the CMS I'm know currently working in.

Ben Edwards is a great guy to listen to, I met and discussed Agile development with him back in 2006, I'm checking his session out cause I'm all about XHTML, CSS and all tasty morsels of chocolate.

Social Search sounds like a fun topic with Rich Hoeg, especially since I'll also be attending the MIMA session on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 which is focusing on DUALITY REALITY: WHO CONTROLS SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE ENTERPRISE?

CSS Frameworks is a hot topic at work since we've since adopted Eric Meyer's Reset CSS framework (ok, maybe it's not a framework, but maybe it is, leave your comments on this below). So what are the pros and cons, hopefully Norm Orstad can fill us in.

Finally, Word Press as a CMS is a great topic especially since it's been used at the enterprise level, check out Ford's Global Auto Show Site, and because it's been making blogs suck less.

That's what I'm planning, along with posting here a lot more, we'll see ;)