Dear colleagues, With many of you reporting that your travel budgets have been nearly wiped out, it occurred to me that it might be useful to organize a "Conference Round Up" at MCN 2009, a session that would provide an overview of highlights from the year's "other" conferences for the many people who have to limit their travel to only one conference this year.
In preparation for submitting a session proposal, I'm looking to this list for several things: 1) Volunteers who might be interested in reporting on a good conference that they have attended or will attend this year should get in touch. Would you be willing to make a brief report on a conference's best projects and ideas, as well as key technology- related trends? Don't worry if you're not sure if you'll attend MCN yet; I'm just trying to get a sense of who will be where. 2) I'd also be interested in knowing which conferences you'd like to hear about. Aside from the usual suspects (AAM, Museums and the Web, Webwise), which meetings did you long to attend that you couldn't or won't get to (CAA? NAEA? ALA? ASTC? TED? SxSWi? VRA? NMC?)? I can play the acronym game all day, but your thoughts about what you'd want to hear would be helpful. If you think one of the regional or overseas museum conferences is going to be particularly interesting this year, let me know about that as well. You can contact me off list (susan [at] susanchun [dot] com) to volunteer to present or to suggest conferences you'd like to hear about in Portland this November. Think of this as a preliminary environmental scan: your input won't be taken as a commitment to attend either MCN or the conference(s) you suggest--we all know how changeable everyone's plans are nowadays. Thanks for your ideas! Best, Susan
