Going Solo Leeds and Moving to 3D
Comments(10)So, here we are: Going Solo on tour. Take the same concept, the same great speaker team, the same programme, but another city.
(When I say “same”, I mean “almost the same: little changes here and there, improvements based on lessons learned, but basically, the same idea.)
Going Solo Leeds will take place on September 12th, 2008. I’m letting you know straight away (I had confirmation this morning for the venue, the Old Broadcasting House (BBC) where met:space is located) so that you can book dates and start making travel arrangements if you want.
I’ll be publishing information about Leeds and making promotional material available as soon as possible. Registration will also open… as soon as I’ve set it up :-).
Now that Going Solo is going on tour, the website is going to have to evolve. Instead of having a 1D website (one event and that’s it), the Going Solo site is going to have to become multi-dimensional: add time and space, and you have a 3D site. Different cities, different moments in the year. Even if it is not “planned” that Going Solo will take place in Lausanne again next year (it’s not that kind of event), who knows — it’s perfectly possible that it’ll come back some day.
So, how do I archive the “Lausanne” event? This isn’t as simple as 2008, 2009, 2010 subdomains. Or subdomains with city names. “lausanne.2008.going-solo.net”? Blogs are easy, for that: just keep on writing.
Also, what about visual branding? Keep exactly the same logos and colours (and update city/date information on them), or make a subtle change (which one? add “Leeds” somewhere?) so that people realise it’s not the same event?
Also, tags: goingsolo, goingsololausanne, goingsolo2008lausanne, gs2008lausanne, gs2008leeds, goingsololeeds — heck.
I suspect I might have to move away from wordpress.com to find an acceptable solution. While I’m perfectly capable of hosting a blog (I do that for CTTS), it’s quite nice not having to worry about maintenance and downtime.
Ideas and suggestions welcome — for Going Solo Leeds as well as for the website.
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hello
why not doing that with categories? One for “lausanne 2008″…
bye dave
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David: that would help for the blog, but the problem I have is for the pages. Programme, Speakers, Practical, Promote… even the sidebar — all that is going to change.
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You might just look at examples from other conferences. For example, A List Apart has conferences in different cities, all known as An Event Apart. You could explore how they tackled it. Hope it goes great for you!
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Carolyn: good idea, thanks! Will check to see how they did it.
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Why not use custom fields and make special sets of posts in each category ?
You can easily achieve a multidimensionnal structure with wordpress, and for example you could have three branches in your categories : events (like lausanne 2008), topics (like speakears), and “overall”
Or just use tags for one of the branches…
Another feature I find useful is “stories” (you have a special plugin for that, forgot its exact name) but making each event a “story” could answer your need
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Marie-Aude: I have the feeling your solution is for posts, which are not a problem here. My issue is how to organise the non-blog part of the site. But I think I’ve figured it out since I blogged this. Stay tuned!
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“the non-blog part of the site” yes I got it 🙂 the only thing is that I built a few sites with a “non blog part” in the blog itself.
Nevertheless, I wait for what you’ll do 🙂
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