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For the woman who has everything

“We are still going strong.”

by Terrence Young

Now that we know our way around the Big City a little better, we can spend more time focusing on connecting with other conference participants. For example, first thing this morning, just as we entered the main hall, we spotted an unmistakable face — it was Lynda Weinman, the founder of the super online tutorial website Lynda.com. We immediately seized the opportunity to introduce ourselves and couldn’t refrain from extending our praises for the wonderful training service that is Lynda.com. (If you haven’t tried the extensive catalog of tutorials on the site, you simply don’t know how much information you are missing.) Lynda was accompanied by one of her best (and to date my personal favorite) trainers, Garrick Chow. It certainly was a great way to start the day.

The morning gained further momentum with the first session — How to Publish Your Video Creations — led by prolific digital media author Richard Harrington (RHED Pixel). It was an intense hour learning about how to prepare video for distribution to an online audience. Compression, bit rate, interlace, de-interlace, sample, aspect ratio, FLV, H.264, MPEG-4; it’s complex to be sure, but video is where it’s going to be. “Get wit da program!”

Geekettes

The bulk of the rest of the day was spent scouting the trade-show floor checking out the extraordinary booth-babes … I mean products … as well as drumming up vendor interest in donating products to HMAUS for future giveaways.

A very smart white board

There are some very interesting products being promoted. One item that was particularly attractive was the Smart whiteboard. Maybe you’ve seen it? The technology has been around for over twenty years but has evolved to … take my word for it, it is amazing! If it weren’t so expensive ($6500+) it would be a great tool for HMAUS to have for making presentations. So what is it?! Think more-than-advanced multi-touch whiteboard … sorry, you have to see it to appreciate it.

Macworld Expo is certainly no CES, but on the other hand, all the products on exhibit are real-world, useful and available now. Hopefully, the generosity of the vendors we’ve met will allow HMAUS to give some of the great stuff away … at Mac Springfest perhaps?

So whaddya think of the view from my hotel?

Wish you were here!

Terrence Young

PS.  Ran into Guy Kawasaki;  plus invited Adam and Tonya Engst to visit us sometime.  Tonya has the idea of gathering all the authors for a retreat on Hawaii … interesting idea, yes?

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2 Comments to “Ron and Terry’s Excellent Adventure at Macworld – Day 3”

1. Richard Harrington says:

   February 2, 2011 at 5:59 pm

   Glad you enjoyed the class. Thanks gain for the chocolate.

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   • T Young says:

     February 2, 2011 at 10:06 pm

     Hey! If you come to Hawaii, you can have all the macadamia nuts you can eat!

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