A Project Manager at What’s Next DC: The Good, The Bad and My Hopes for Next Year

Yesterday I joined my fellow Captico mates on a trip down to DC to attend the What’s Next DC? Conference. Overall the event was a good one – my applause to Green Buzz Agency and others who helped put the event together.

Overall I had my likes and my dislikes for this year’s events as well as my hopes for What’s Next 2012:

Liked:

• Niche discussions – it was good to share thoughts, questions and solutions with other attendees.
• Speakers hung around after their presentations for Q&A and from what I saw the presenters appeared to be very personable.

Dislikes:

• Q&A was separate from the presentation. I don’t know about you but I learn as much from Q&A as I do from the presentation itself.
• Too many presentations in too little time. There were some presentations that could have gone deeper not to mention the tight schedule made it hard to discuss any of the presentations with a neighbor.

Hopes for What’s Next DC 2012:

• It would be really cool to have the niche discussions follow the presentations a bit more closely. For example Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz fame could give his presentations and answer questions (for the entire audience). Then after his session, he could have led a discussion on SEO. This flow could be scheduled in groups of three – three short presentations with time for Q&A for an hour followed by 30 minutes of networking or one of three niche discussions based on the earlier presentations.

Overall, a good experience and congrats to all who played a hand in What’s Next DC and be sure to look out for the Captico team at other DMV events. (If you know of any events worth attending, share them below and maybe we’ll see you there.)

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