Clarion Folk

Here is what I love about Devcons:

You find awesome people.

The SV sessions have been fantastic. Like previously mentioned, they put a huge amount of diligent work into preparation and then delivery. Fantastic.

However, as good (different) has been the “business practices” focussed talks. We’re a little way into Kim Davies‘ talk, Michael Summons having gone previously.

I tells you, this is amazing stuff. Michael just blew me away. The guy has such a clear grasp on the Full Spectrum of Business. How to get stuff done .. really done. Not hobby-ist, and not Throw-A-Million-Dollars-At-It either.

Michael talked about discipline, putting into place good practices, adjusting those practices when they need it, when they might not work. Being _proactive_ not _reactive_.

It’s stuff you’ve probably heard before. For me, it was an amazing half hour.

And Kim is walking in the same steps .. but honing in on the Marketing. Very cool. I’ll have more later.

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I’m enjoying Devcon. I’ll have a bit to say afterwards, when there’s been time to collate thoughts etc, but let me just say this:

Geoff Spillane deserves HUGE kudos. The amount of work he has done is huge. Getting together the conference, the Training (arm-twisting the SV guys a month out to get everything ready), getting 3 (3!) SV guys here. Just awesome.

We did have a little bit of an issue yesterday though. Bob Foreman had to do the last half of his session in darkness and non-electricity! It’s wierd walking down the main street of a small country town in complete and almost-utter darkness. Course, there was the noise and lights of a pub to guide the way, heh heh.

Here’s a couple of links to Clarion Mag for information. Here for some live news, and here is the category for the Aussie Devcon 2008.

Also, get on Skype and add me (search for “Stu Clarionite Troubadour”)! I’ll add you to the Clarion Talk channel. A great place at all times, and right now we are online.

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Here’s an idea.

1. A little system tray program that retrieves contextual information. There could be many different paper boys, or chuck all functionality into one.
2. Used for tracking Real Estate Properties, both Rental and Sales.
3. Used for tracking Blogs, real-time alerts when someone updates their blog.

Notes:

Couldn’t possibly be any good trying to mash together everything. Needs clarity.

The Real Estate one is good. People can use this little satellite app to store and search for the Property types they are looking for.

The app will store all results, in some way.

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Well, almost. In about half an hour, the first Training is scheduled to begin.

Bites the big one that I can’t be there, but I’ll be scavenging around over the weekend, getting people’s opinions and wotnot. Will be doing small video interviews on my phone.

To everyone who is there, have a blast!

To everyone who is not. Stay tuned. Or not.

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