November 15, 2008 at The first day of EduCamp'2008 in Kiev
The first day of EduCamp'2008 , an educational conference on the Internet and new media on education and web 2.0, was held.
My half and I were late, so we missed the opening. But the registration of the participants was still working and we successfully received the badges and the program (by the way, it pleased us because we registered last night - about 10 hours before the event). In general, everything was organized at the level, albeit at a low budget. However, participation was free - so there’s nothing to complain about.
There were many spectators in the hall - 200-300 people; a young man (I don’t know his name) near the screen explained to the audience what web 2.0 is: “This is such a new-fangled term. Maybe not entirely new, but very fashionable! ” - a great start. As a result, the whole day was more of a general educational nature: 2 words about social networks, 3 words about startups, “blogs are great,” “you can earn money on banners and services,” and so on. And all this - in the format of half-hour reports in parallel in three audiences.
Now in more detail. The first report we decided to visit was “How Startups Are Made, ” by Sergey Danilenko from Highway. In short: Drupal rules, a little about domains, monetization, target audience, promotion - everything is very overview. From interesting - the idea of a button “stir up” to remind colleagues like “hello, you have not written anything”; contextual advertising drives, banner advertising is ineffective (not new, but repetition is the mother of learning).
Next - Håkon Wium Liefrom Opera - an hourly report by the honored Norwegian guest, which, unfortunately, began simultaneously with the “startups”. In the beginning, I thought what Opera could tell new things, but, reaching the audience, I regretted that we did not go here from the very beginning. He talked about standard fonts (“They were developed in the 90s, there are about ten of them and, I think, this is the best that Microsoft has done in all this time :-). And we are happy to use them! ”) And the need to use non-standard ones on the web. He invited me to a beer and told how he and his friend wrote a book in HTML + CSS; touted a video animating dry web pages and a lot, a lot of everything that I missed. It's a pity. I feel, now I’ll go to the Opera workshop in KPI .
Then a brief report on PR on the Internet and another one-hour lecture - on promoting a personal brand - all in the same spirit as a report on startups.
Summarizing the first day (and the second is unlikely to please something fundamentally original), I can say that in general there is nothing new. So, some interesting remarks, streamline thoughts, look at the problems a little differently - probably for this purpose such events are held.
And only Opera shone brightly and went out. We will wait for the next meeting.
UPD habranovost about the Opera seminar - here
Original article.
My half and I were late, so we missed the opening. But the registration of the participants was still working and we successfully received the badges and the program (by the way, it pleased us because we registered last night - about 10 hours before the event). In general, everything was organized at the level, albeit at a low budget. However, participation was free - so there’s nothing to complain about.
There were many spectators in the hall - 200-300 people; a young man (I don’t know his name) near the screen explained to the audience what web 2.0 is: “This is such a new-fangled term. Maybe not entirely new, but very fashionable! ” - a great start. As a result, the whole day was more of a general educational nature: 2 words about social networks, 3 words about startups, “blogs are great,” “you can earn money on banners and services,” and so on. And all this - in the format of half-hour reports in parallel in three audiences.
Now in more detail. The first report we decided to visit was “How Startups Are Made, ” by Sergey Danilenko from Highway. In short: Drupal rules, a little about domains, monetization, target audience, promotion - everything is very overview. From interesting - the idea of a button “stir up” to remind colleagues like “hello, you have not written anything”; contextual advertising drives, banner advertising is ineffective (not new, but repetition is the mother of learning).
Next - Håkon Wium Liefrom Opera - an hourly report by the honored Norwegian guest, which, unfortunately, began simultaneously with the “startups”. In the beginning, I thought what Opera could tell new things, but, reaching the audience, I regretted that we did not go here from the very beginning. He talked about standard fonts (“They were developed in the 90s, there are about ten of them and, I think, this is the best that Microsoft has done in all this time :-). And we are happy to use them! ”) And the need to use non-standard ones on the web. He invited me to a beer and told how he and his friend wrote a book in HTML + CSS; touted a video animating dry web pages and a lot, a lot of everything that I missed. It's a pity. I feel, now I’ll go to the Opera workshop in KPI .
Then a brief report on PR on the Internet and another one-hour lecture - on promoting a personal brand - all in the same spirit as a report on startups.
Summarizing the first day (and the second is unlikely to please something fundamentally original), I can say that in general there is nothing new. So, some interesting remarks, streamline thoughts, look at the problems a little differently - probably for this purpose such events are held.
And only Opera shone brightly and went out. We will wait for the next meeting.
UPD habranovost about the Opera seminar - here
Original article.