February 13, 2006
Blogging (or not) ProcessWorld 2006 from Doral Resort in Miami, Florida
It looks like blogging at ProcessWorld 2006 is going to be a challenge. As my earlier audioblog eluded to, I headed to Doral Resort for pre-registration last night to get that bit of business done and to check out the facilities for connectivity. I immediately had a bad feeling when a sign outside on of the still-being-configured conference rooms said "Turn off all electrical devices in the conference room" or something to that affect. I booted up the laptop and found some stray wireless signal (from guest rooms I believe), but had no luck connecting (problem on my part, I believe), so there may be some hope. I also checked out the empty and upstairs away-from-the-action press room and found no hardwires or even faint wi-fi signal, so I wonder what the other press folks are doing...they've probably got their fancy mobile broadband cards and such.
It's still amazing that conferences don't foster the kind of spontaneous reporting and word-of-blog buzz that weblogs in all forms and formats can add to an event like this. To not have wi-fi available to the conference attendees is a big blow-it in my mind. I'll see if I can find out what the "electronic device" restriction and no connectivity is all about and will report back.
Nevertheless, we will make the best of what we can do and post when we can, so come back and check out what's new in business process and enterprise architecture modeling with IDS-Scheer's ARIS product from ProcessWorld 2006.
Posted by outlawv at February 13, 2006 04:44 AM