LDS Media Talk

The International Worldwide Web 2007 Conference just ended in

Banff, Canada. I’ve attended two of these conferences (2006 was in

Edinburgh, Scotland). This year was also great, although I echo many of Phil Windley’s feelings. These conferences are a mix of academic and commercial interests. My interests in attending are to learn where the Web is heading strategically and think through what content and services Church sites should be providing. I also picked up a lot of tactical tips on how to do what we do better. But my role is not to be a deep technical person, so many of the sessions didn’t interest me. But there were plenty of good sessions to keep me busy each hour of the full 5 days. Unlike Phil, I don’t have the budget to go to the conference next year in

Beijing. I’ll try to attend the Web 2.0 Summit in

San Francisco in October.

Phil’s blog covered the general sessions at WWW2007 pretty well, so I won’t share my notes here. There is also a good review of the talk by Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the Web) on Nodalities. In the recent eWeek.com listing of the 100 most influential people in IT, they listed Tim as the second most influential person, right behind the Google guys. Therefore, I will only blog about a few issues in my next blogs.