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November 20th, 2008 | 
Author: UNC Cause 2008 is officially over, so I thought I would share some of my thoughts as far as how the conference went.
UNC Cause is different in many ways to the standard “conference”. It seems a little less formal in lots of ways. Perhaps it’s the lack of keynote, or session tracks, or something I can’t really put my finger on. Either way, it continues to be different than things like ZendCon and the ResNet conference. Here is what was good, and not so good, about UNC Cause 2008:
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Day 3, here we come!
Breakfast was good. There was OJ and biscuits this morning. There was also a raffle, but our group didn’t win anything.
Digital Signage with Billboard
We had a vested interest in this session. Andrew Stein from ECE presented about how they have taken our Billboard product and added a few features to satisfy their needs. Lots of good discussion about the reasons for digital signs and how Billboard will help. There were some requests for download links for Billboard, so if you want to download it, you can do that here.
Day 2 recap! Here we go….
Breakfast
Overall, pretty good. One complaint is that there was no juice, just water and coffee.
UNCW Text Message Applications
UNCW is doing some interesting things with texting, although not really revolutionary. Similar to what was done in the last election, they have setup a code that students can use to get information about campus happenings (2 way automated texting, rather than one way only). They have developed some apps that seem to help students get associated with campus (trivia, events, etc). I learned some stuff about the SMS system in general, so it was worth it.
Garrison and I will be doing a presentation for UNC Cause 2008. We are presenting on “After the Project Project Management”, which is a fancy way of saying talking about how we do what we do, and what tools we use to do it.
Our presentation is on Tuesday at 11:15 in the “Triad West” room, so join us up.
Also, for any of you who are attending Cause, we are gonna use “unccause08″ as our folksonomy, so tweets, blog posts, tags, etc will all be tagged “cause08″. Everybody join in and we will have an easy way to track whats going down!