Showing posts with label wca. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wca. Show all posts

Monday, November 19, 2007

Public Speaking: Wireless Connections 2007


It's been a busy time over the last few months. I attended the Texas Wireless Summit in Austin, then WCA shared a booth at CTIA with some other groups; WIPConnector, WINBC, and the Austin Wireless Alliance. Made a big push to produce our 700 MHz analyst panel event, and to complete a report due for one of my clients. Then I headed off to Banff in Alberta for Wireless Connections 2007. I was invited to speak at the conference, and it was a great show. Loved the location; the Fairmont Banff Springs. I spoke about the cultural aspects of living and working in the Silicon Valley. I think the talk went well based on feedback from attendees. I'm looking forward to seeing a few of the Alberta folks down here in the Valley on Nov 27th at our Mobile OS panel event.

Thursday, March 8, 2007

The Reluctant Webmaster

I've been spending the last few days educating myself on the nuances of website management, on account of being recently elected to Vice President at the Wireless Communications Alliance. The WCA has a "working board" which means I'm doing all this myself. Google AdSense, Google Analytics, XML sitemap generation, etc... I recently swapped out our old DreamWeaver/FrontPage site for a Drupal CMS site, and that's really made all this a LOT easier. If you haven't used a CMS system before and you do site development, especially for dynamic sites which have constantly updating content, I really suggest you consider switching. Drupal is Open Source, widely used, and very powerful. Once you get through the initial setup it's amazingly easy to add features. When I wanted Google Analytics I went and fetched the Drupal module for this and was done in two minutes. Google AdSense setup was also very easy with the Drupal module.