Here is my second proposal that went in to speak at the Web 2.0 NY conference taking place in Sept-08.

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Total Mash-Up Web Design and Development

There is no point in starting from scratch anymore. This talk will show you how to create a web architecture for your organization that takes advantage of world-class applications. Mash and grind up together the best the web has to offer to create an enterprise class web presence so you can spend your budget on content and marketing instead of re-creating the wheel.

These websites:

• Are fully scalable; they will grow as your organization’s needs do.
• Are easy to administer – they are designed to be user friendly.
• Allow you total flexibility over design, layout, look and feel.
• Are Search engine friendly.
• Are primed for all sorts of marketing tactics.
• Can be constructed iteratively; get pieces up as you need them.
• Are cost-effective to build and design.
• And much much more!

Your project can range from a simple small business web page to major corporate rollouts supporting client log-in support, customer service ticketing systems, e-commerce, fund-raising, and many other applications.

Stretch your budget and impress your stakeholders – come and learn how to mash and grind at Web 2.0!

Blog writing will be a priority soon. It’s been 18-20 hour days for several weeks now, but the work load is tapering.

I did make it a priority last night for an hour between the web audit and e-marketing plan due last night and a database of members missing critical information (um.. usernames) for a huge site launching last night, anyways, I submitted 3 proposals to Web 2.0 conference in NY Sep-08.

Today I met with a new client, and while sorting schedule meeting times for the next few weeks, I found out one of them will be at Web 2.0 in SF later this month. I mentioned the talk proposals and they asked me what the topics would be. So I pitched them, and they wanted to hear the talks immediately! So that is a good sign.

So here’s what I’m going to do - put up the pitches over the next three days to get your input.

But before that, I’d like to get some advice on something else. You may notice that my diagrams are.. well.. sketchy at best. I have no artistic talent, but I tend to use whiteboards extensively to draw out sticks, boxes and circles for clients, and they love them. But I guess putting up online is a different game.

So to my point - what do YOU think of my diagrams? Unprofessional? Too ugly to make a point? Comments please!

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