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March 11, 2010
Live updates from Connect IT 2010.
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Great conference learned a lot and I will be attending the next connect IT conference, meet new people and learned from my peers and fellow students I found myself amazed by
Mr. Remmer and Mr Tapscott and looking forward to start my career as an ICT professional -
I’m happy you enjoyed it Stephen, and hope next year’s team will be able to put on a conference that’s just as good if not better for you.
Thanks again for coming out!
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As an organizer for CIT10 I couldn’t help but feel a… variety of emotions; anxiety, excitement, and my personal favorite thrill. I felt anxious because I was minutely uncertain about how the conference was going to turn out. I felt excited because like many of you I’ve waited a long time to attend. And lastly, I felt thrilled during the conference because I was personally excited at how I may be able to incorporate my new gained knowledge not only in the remainder of my years at Ryerson but throughout my life.
While I can write pages upon pages of things I’ve learned at the conference and found interesting, I will stick to one. Despite the fact that the theme of the conference was the new paradigm of social media and how businesses have adapted to it; the idea I found most interesting (particularly because I’ve wrote about it in the past) was something mentioned by David Eaves (one of the panelists). In a deep discussion about the importance of social media the notion of “digital divide” was brought up, as an advocate I couldn’t help but smirk – shortly to my dismay David Eaves jumped to debunk this notion as he labeled it, “a myth”.
At first, I must admit I was judgmental and overly critical completely failing to see the arguments presented. However I thankfully decided to give it a second go where I realized the arguments presented were by far superior to any other arguments I’ve heard against the idea of digital divide and irrefutable by any of the evidence I’ve ever come across…
Since then I’ve been slowly hacking at the book: The Digital Divide: facing a crisis or creating a myth? While I haven’t read enough to recommend it to any of you I would encourage it seeing as how it’s an unavoidable topic in today’s day and age.
During Don Tapscotts speech, a possible future conference theme came to mind, while this conference revolved around social media and how its impacted businesses I thought it would be interesting if speakers were to analyze how modern technology is changing the way businesses operate.Until next year,
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This is long overdue but I’ve finally got around to writing a well deserved post about ConnectIT 2010. Since this was my first year attending this conference I had no idea what to expect. I don’t think it’s neither fair nor possible to choose the “best” speaker since they were all extremely fascinating, so instead I’ll just write about each speaker and their most interesting points.
The opening address given by Dave Remmer was exciting as he revealed to us SharePoint 2010 and in fact said he was more excited about that project than Microsoft 7 which is incredible. I was unfortunately not able to listen to the next speaker Michael Cayley. However Matthew Milan put me right back in the excitement and discussed the business model generating. He recommended the book which I’ve already started hacking at and so far it has not disappointed. The panel followed and again I was not disappointed, Eaves, Kozinets, and Pollock were all on fire. The most interesting argument raised was on privacy on the web: it is much better to be found on the web than not which I have to admit I was not aware of. Finally the key note given by Tapscott was highly engaging. Most interesting point dealt with the way schools teach, he discussed how they have an outdated system which was very intriguing.
All in all, it may not mean much coming from someone who attended it for the first time, but only one word could describe this year’s conference: Amazing!
stephen said:
March 11, 2010 at 11:35 pm