Fuzzy Content

Dimitri and I just got back from Rochester, NY for this week’s highedwebdev conference. With over 400 attendees and five session tracks, there was plenty to soak in.

The first thing that caught my eye was that many of the sessions (at least in title) were focused on the very thing that we love…fuzzy content. The sessions were not as much about what you do to your site, but more of how your site is a bigger piece of the Web puzzle.

I also found that sessions were focused on the front-end how-tos. With the potential for this to be a nuts and bolts conference, I was delighted to see usability as its own track. And content management as a separate track. I thought the “design and strategy” track could have been sprinkled a little more throughout the other tracks, but just the fact that there were sessions dedicated to “planning before investing” brought a smile to my face.

All in all, a good week spent with an army of those moving toward a similar goal. Now if we can only get VPs to drink our Kool-Aid, we’re in business.

To relive (or to live vicariously), goto del.icio.us or flickr for more. And follow Dimitri’s (and others’) guest posts on collegewebeditor.