{"id":386,"date":"2010-07-19T00:15:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T11:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/?p=386"},"modified":"2010-07-19T23:23:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T10:23:04","slug":"barcamp-auckland-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/semicolon\/2010\/07\/19\/barcamp-auckland-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcamp Auckland 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BCA4<\/a>Yesterday I attended my first unconference: Barcamp Auckland 4<\/a>. I learned a lot from the talks and presentations, but I also got a lot from the breaks in between and from the event as a whole. Here are some of my highlights.<\/p>\n

Twitter is awesome for conferences.<\/strong> I tweeted interesting points<\/a> from the sessions I attended, but I also regularly checked the #bcak4 hashtag<\/a> to see what was going on in the other sessions. In some cases I missed bits of what the presenters said, but caught them a minute later as the person sitting next to me tweeted them. And I wasn’t the only one who noticed the rain on Twitter<\/a> before I saw it outside the window.<\/p>\n

The tweets really added a lot to the sessions. There were a handful of Twittering heroes there. A few times I heard a presenter mention some project or document, and within 60 seconds @vickytnz<\/a> would tweet the reference along with the URL. Awesome.<\/p>\n

There is a great web-design-media-etc. community in Auckland.<\/strong> I mean, of course there is — Auckland is big and hip enough — but I haven’t been exposed much to it before. I’m starting to recognise a few names and faces too. Now I want to get more involved.<\/p>\n

The sessions I saw were a good mix of tech, design and social issues. This reflected the mix of geek, design, and strategy people I’ve encountered at Auckland Web Meetup<\/a>, Auckland UX meetup<\/a> and other groups. I’ll write more about the individual sessions in separate posts under the Barcamp tag<\/a>. I was hoping to do them all today but given my usual blogging speed I will be lucky to write them all up within the week. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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