This is the last time I will attend this conference. I don't mean that to sound negative, but until I become developed enough in the industry to come back and speak to future developers, I don't think I'll be coming back. I'd like to take a few minutes to sum up what this year's conference was about.

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The rest of the Expo went really well.I won't go into detail on any of the particular sessions because I didn't really go to a lot of them.

Thursday, I went to the keynotes, one session, and the live show of Tekzilla Live. This was by far the best part of the Expo for me. I was second in line for the show - my fiance was first - and this guy started asking if anyone in line had a personal site. ME! So, Ryan of Revision3 hooked me up with a new Squarespace account - the one you're viewing now. They had the lead designer redesign my personal site in 30 minutes using the Squarespace editor. I got an awesome redesign, a free Squarespace site, and I'm extremely happy with how it all worked out.

By the way, a huge thanks to Ryan, Tyler - the designer, and Dane - my contact at Squarespace for my account. You guys have been awesome! And for those of you that haven't checked into Squarespace, it's amazing! I know having to pay for a blogging engine might turn people away, but the tools and features you get make it so worth it - especially to a designer. Plus, take the cost of hosting into account - with a company that has decent customer service - and I think you actually come out ahead. My fiance, Lance, was so impressed with it that he started his own account. You can check out his blog at  www.lancedice.com.

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This is a blog post I made last week before this site was set up for me. This is from Wednesday, April 1st.

Today was the first day of sessions for the Web 2.0 Expo. I have to say that it's been an interesting day. This is the first conference I've ever been to and I didn't quite know what to expect. I went into this thing expecting every topic to be directed at web developers - I was wrong. So naturally, I picked all the wrong topics and was feeling very left out. I am just a student in web development and here I was surrounded by business people that were shopping for ways to market their businesses. I was actually starting to wonder why I even came.

As for the sessions I attended, I felt they were very well done for the most part - although they didn't necessarily apply to my interests. The first one I attended: Why Social Media Marketing Fails - and how to fix it was not the best. It covered all the different reasons why it fails, but spent very little time talking about ways to fix it. In fact, one left the session wondering why anyone would rely on social media marketing at all - if it really is that unreliable and the reward is so little. Also, it felt like the speakers were talking to each other instead of to the people attending. However, I really liked their use of Twitter for getting feedback from the listeners.

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