BlueHatDesign – Eugene, Oregon Web Design

The 10th anni­ver­sary of Web­Vi­sions, a nationally-recognized con­fe­rence that explo­res the future of Web design, tech­no­logy, user expe­rience and busi­ness stra­tegy was held in at the Port­land Con­fe­rence Cen­ter this past week. I have to con­gra­tu­late exe­cu­tive direc­tor Brad Smith, the great staff, and an ama­zing crew of volun­teers for put­ting on a fan­tas­tic conference.

The line up of spea­kers was top-notch as always. Topics ran­ged from Luke Williams’ “How to Spark Dis­rup­tive Inno­va­tion” (ope­ning key­note), to Shashi Bellamkonda’s “Per­so­nal Bran­ding”, to nuts and bolts stuff like “Desig­ning Our Way Through Web Forms” with Kim­berly Bles­sing and Chris­topher Schmitt.

I came away from this con­fe­rence smar­ter, more con­nec­ted and more ins­pi­red to keep lear­ning, and keep buil­ding awe­some stuff for the web!

(photo by Shashi Bellam­konda)

As I’ve said many times, mar­ke­ting is not my forte. I’m a web designer/developer, and I simply don’t have time to become an expert in mar­ke­ting, seo (search engine opti­mi­za­tion) and social media. That said, these areas are of great inte­rest to my clients, so the sub­ject comes up daily.

Here’s a great article by Scott Strat­ten at UnMar­ke­ting which sheds some light on how you can use Twit­ter to help engage a local market.