{"id":185,"date":"2007-08-03T10:11:09","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T18:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/2007\/08\/03\/battle-of-the-conference-schwag\/"},"modified":"2007-08-03T10:11:09","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T18:11:09","slug":"battle-of-the-conference-schwag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"battle of the conference schwag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two great conferences are coming to the Bay Area in early September, and each has an interesting give-away.<\/p>\n<p>The developer-centric <a href=\"http:\/\/therichwebexperience.com\/\">Rich Web Experience<\/a>, from September 6-8, 2007 in San Jose, is offering attendees their choice of a Nintendo Wii or 30GB iPod Video.  This conference is a spin-off from the Ajax Experience, when TechTarget acquired Ajaxian, and has an excellent line-up of speakers<\/p>\n<p>The tech CxO-focused <a href=\"http:\/\/o2con.com\/\">Office 2.0 Conference<\/a> from September 5-7, 2007 in San Francisco was an amazingly high quality conference last year.  I was impressed last year when conference schedules were handed out in the form of iPod Nanos, but this year they have upped their game: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.o2con.com\/docs\/DOC-1034\">every conference attendee will receive an iPhone<\/a> (or comparable device if you already own an iPhone).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the event, you will use your iPhone to lookup the conference&#8217;s agenda, the biographies of speakers, and the map of the facility, thereby saving a lot of trees. Using applications developed by Etelos, you will also be able to exchange your contact information with attendees and exhibitors, schedule meetings with participants, and provide real-time feedback during sessions. The conference&#8217;s facility will also provide a scalable WiFi network that will allow you to access any online application, leveraging the full power of Apple&#8217;s wonderful device.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Depending on your interest and motivation, I can highly recommend the Rich Web Experience if you are looking for better information about technology and development, of Office 2.0 if you are more interested in networking and\/or the business side of tech.  Or you could sign-up for both, double-up on the schwag, and get 4 packed days of conference fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two great conferences are coming to the Bay Area in early September, and each has an interesting give-away. The developer-centric Rich Web Experience, from September 6-8, 2007 in San Jose, is offering attendees their choice of a Nintendo Wii or 30GB iPod Video. This conference is a spin-off from the Ajax Experience, when TechTarget acquired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}