Why Can't All Of Our Data Silos Just Get Along?Michelle Bruno
The technology landscape in the event industry is fragmented. There are lots of platforms that do lots of different things. The problem is that many don't share data and functionality, i.e. they don't work well together. Integration would be immensely helpful to change the situation, but there is still pushback and a layer of complexity that many event professionals aren't equipped to address. Read about what's going on and what needs to happen to change the situation.
Communicating complicated system scenarios can be difficult using words alone. Diagrams of scenarios can give engineers a quick and thorough understanding of system events. But hand-drawn diagrams are time-consuming to create and may be incomplete or contain erroneous information. This paper discusses how an ASIC engineer can create a short Perl script that reads a simulation log file and automatically creates an accurate, informative diagram in about a second.
Project Management in an Agency Environment Jeff Thaler
An overview of Project Management core areas of focus. Includes project management process, tools, and collaboration with other parties - includes roles and responsibilities in comparison to Account Management.
The Event Industry’s Evangelist of Open SourceMichelle Bruno
Visual summary of the EventTechBrief.com article, "The Event Industry’s Evangelist of Open Source." Read the full article or subscribe to the e-newsletter at EventTechBrief.com.
In the second decade of the second millennium, many of us are approaching the web wrong. We have trouble defining goals, addressing needs, and defining scope. We use phrases like “Mobile First,” or “Content First.” We forget where we came from, and lack vision on where we’re going by bogging ourselves down in processes or allowing programmers to do front end UI. Everything about our environment is transitional – everything except one core component: us. People create websites, people consume websites, and there comes a point where strategy needs to yield to technological requirements and open itself to what our users want and need. I’m talking about “People First.”