After taking 2 airplanes to get to Philly and a ride with Mike Richwalsky & Josh Tysiachney from Allegheny College and Brad Ward from Butler University (and BlogHighEd) to Atlantic City, I checked in yesterday around 4:30 pm.
My room has a gorgeous view, but the $12.50 Internet wireless connection could definitely be better.
I’m missing quite a few bars and the best spot to get access is actually not the desk, but the bed (Wayport‘s – the company providing the service – help desk support if not very helpful was really professional, and I guess the view from the bed isn’t bad either)
We had a very interesting conversation over dinner at The Cafe about cloud computing with Mike, Josh and Mark Greenfield. Mike and Josh are scheduled to present about the topic at 9:45 Tuesday morning.
Mike shared with us some of the advantages of cloud computing for higher ed institutions when it comes to online video, emergency websites or any event resulting in a spike in web traffic.
We also discussed email outsourcing to Google or Microsoft as I had some fresh examples from my upcoming feature article for the August issue of University Business.
Before Mark’s keynote this afternoon, I’m supposed to work a bit more on my own – scheduled on Wednesday, fine tune the scheduling of the speaker’s blog posts, have coffee with Pamela Michael, Head of Digital Media and Marketing at Imperial College (London) and meet Stewart Foss from eduStyle.
If you see me in the lobby, don’t be shy and come say “hello.”
Related posts:
- From outsourcing email to outsourcing IT?
- eduWeb 2008: twitter, live blogging with a twist, meet-up & survey about social media use in higher ed
- What to expect for the 2008 eduWeb Conference in Atlantic City, NJ
- eduWeb 2008: 5 reasons to submit a presentation proposal before the March 17 deadline
- Higher Ed Conference Update: Portal 2008, EduComm, EduWeb and HighEdWeb
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