Travelin' Liz

The very last thing we did at the conference yesterday (before adjourning to the hotel to get ready for the crab fest!) was participate in a panel/roundtable discussion on how IT and marketing can get along (right!). Someone in the audience asked about user testing's role in persuading IT and/or marketing along to one's point of view, after which I began the excited-arm-thrust-up dance for getting a chance to talk. As it turned out, I was the very last one they called on to stand up and share thoughts, and I talked for three or four minutes about my experiences at work, including a plug for my user testing session today.

So after we were back to the hotel from the conference, and at random times at the crab fest! last night, people began coming up to me and saying, "Hey! You're that user testing girl! I'm coming to that session for sure!"

No pressure.

The room I'm presenting in is probably the biggest of the three we're using, but I've already seen that if any one session attracts more than a proportionate amount of attendees, things get crowded pretty quickly. I'm pretty darn sure my 33 copies of the one handout I prepared to hand out physically (versus loading up on a Web site) will hardly be sufficient.

But, I'm REALLY excited to be presenting later, and excited to hear what others have done and how they've done it differently than me.