On the way to jazz choir practice, I thought about what I like
creating and when people have called me creative. One of the things
people have complimented me on is the way I hack conferences, from
modding conference T-shirts to posting people's tag clouds along the
wall in order to spark conversations.

I _love_ going above and beyond the usual ideas of what a conference
should be like. That's one of the reasons why I'm really excited about
CASCON 2006: as part of the organizing team, I can try out many cool
ideas!

I'd love to start a bigger conversation around that, and I'd love to
share my thoughts with more people! I think it would make a great
blog. I want to share tips and ideas with participants, speakers, and
organizers. It'll also be a great place to post my conference reports
and pictures of hacked T-shirts! ;)

I already have a name for the blog: Conference Commando. I came
across the term “conference commando” in Keith Ferrazzi's book Never
Eat Alone. Good stuff, and I think I've got a lot to contribute to
this space.

So I'm going to make it happen! Here's what I need to do:

• Make a logo so that it's not just a boring WordPress install. ;)
• Set up a blog and JUST START BLOGGING! I can probably install
  Wordpress or something like that on some computer somewhere. Maybe
  Richi will let me virtualhost conferencecommando.sachachua.com on
  his computer. I need a MySQL database. Alternatively, I could host
  it on adphoto.com.ph, which is currently underutilized anyway. Yup,
  that's also a possibility…
• Extract some of the relevant blog posts from my main blog. For
  example, my notes about the social computing workshop might be of
  interest to organizers. A review of the relevant section in Never
  Eat Alone would be handy for participants, and my blog entry about
  keynote styles would be good for speakers.

Fun! Hooray for Creative Thursday!