Well, the three days of the CCI2008 conference are coming to a close. Unfortunately, I had to head out a little early due to feeling a little under the weather, but it gives me a chance to get this blog post up.

My presentation at 11am this morning went pretty well, I think. I had to scramble last minute to get a video adapter (thanks, Paul Brown from Quark!). But oh no, no remote clicker to advance my presentation while I wander around the room!

Well, Salling Clicker to the rescue on my Mac and on my cellphone, using Bluetooth. There were some fun technical snafus and the Bluetooth only lasted about half way, but I definitely liked the way I could control the system from my phone.

Here is the SlideShare link to my presentation:

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Please also do go and vote on my session on the Confabb site if you attended. I'd love some direct feedback. From my point of view it was fun and I got lots of audience participation. Special shout out to Todd O'Neill from DoingMedia for participation, although lots of people got into things, including Michael Priestly.

Djun and I talked with Michael Priestley (who just happens to be the Lead IBM DITA Architect) about DITA over lunch. In particular, DITA support in Drupal. The main dita.xml.org website actually runs on Drupal, which is fantastic.

So, I'll be talking a bit more with Michael about how to "pitch" DITA to the Drupal community. It will come at an interesting time as we explore the Semantic Web technologies. My very very brief summary is that DITA is sort of like a universal import / export format for content, component content, mappings, and topics. Heck, even there I got a bit confusing. I'll be looking for some "intro to DITA" slides from Michael to help understand this more.

Thanks to the CCI2008 conference organizers (esp. Rahel), speakers, and attendees. It was a really great event, from which I originally really didn't know what to expect. I have lots of follow ups to do, and it was definitely a great experience.