Vol. 2: design-management.de

I recall that my first DMI conference I’ve ever attended is dating back to 1998. At that time it has been the second European conference and took place in Amsterdam.  

Ever since I’ve attended a couple of them also outside Europe and it has always been a special experience, because many people I’ve met at these conferences for the first time have become somewhat friends. Accordingly I’m happy that after 2 years of absence I’m able to participate in another European DMI conference again: Milan at the famous Triennale di Milano!

This time DMI has been so kind to invite me to live twitter from the conference and provide some ‘live feeling’ for those of you who are not able to join us this time. Thanks again to DMI President Tom Lockwood and his team for facilitating this! As I’ve been told DMI also wants to talk with me over some future activities around the use of social media at conferences and other convivial gatherings. I’ll keep you posted ;-)

So my advice for those of you who want to follow what’s going on in Milan is to go to twitter.com and open an account. Once you’ve done this you might want to connect to me (Ralf Beuker: @iterations) and other DMI twitteristi (for example my colleague Erik Roscam Abbing: @roscamabbing or breakout session facilitator Arne van Oosterom: @designthinkers). In case any reader of this blog is also joining us please drop me a note and I’ll add you to the list or simply follow me on http://twitter.com/iterations.

Once you’ve done this you might want to install a twitter client (http://twitter.com/downloads) or simply point your browser to: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23dmimilan. The hashtag we will use is: #dmimilan. After all this sounds more scary as it actually is and once you’ve managed overcome the basic threshold of opening an account and installing a local twitter client things go pretty smoothly ;-)

So if all this information has been an eye opener to you and instead of lurking virtually you still want to join the conference live you might want to check whether DMI still has some tickets. After all any other suggestions are welcome any time by: Commenting to this posting, dropping me an email and/or following me on twitter and direct messaging me! I’m looking forward to connecting with you!