What am I bringing to the conference?  Open ears.  Open mind.  Closed mouth.  Okay.  I won't keep my mouth closed for the whole time, but I intend to do a lot more active listening than monologuing.  I'll do the monologue here:

What else will I bring?  Some book knowledge of the Millennial generation and a little experience in marketing to them in a higher education setting.

My experience? I have a little volunteer experience.  Some experience in building and maintaining online communities.  Some experience enabling citizen journalism (circa 1997).  Some exeperience in the .Gov world; some in the .Edu world.  I have ZERO experience in real programming, but I've been living and working online since 1993.

My curiosities are many and varied but right now I'm focused on engineering serendipity and exploring the confluence of inexpensive technology tools, a new generation of socially aware students and the renewed interest in experimentation found in many organizations.

What am I?  I'm a marketer, designer, information architect, user experience designer ... No.  Not really.  I'm a reader and an experienced user of poorly designed tools (doors, pens, computers, electronics, etc.).  I'm the reader's agent.

Along with three others, I discuss and think about some of this stuff on www.fuzzycontent.com so you can see more about where I'm coming from by visiting that co-blogging site.  I can't wait to shut up and listen!