Bob Williams

Product Camp Atlanta 2011 Notes

February 19th, 2011 | One comment | Tags:

I attended Product Camp Atlanta for the second time today.  As the website says its a ” collaborative, user organized professional conference, focused on Product Management and Marketing topics.”  As with my first product camp, I enjoyed my time today and it was worth giving up a Saturday to find time to network, collaborate, share, and learn.

Enclosed are the notes I took from the four sessions I attended.

Session #1 – Driving Sales with Compelling Messaging Russell Scherwin (@rscherwin) Use relevant examples with items that people can relate to and understand. Make sure the example is relevant to the environment/industry. Use a reference customer where appropriate to make impact. If …Continue reading >>

Bob Williams

Learnings and Takeaways from Product Camp Atlanta 2010

February 10th, 2010 | Leave a comment | Tags: , , , ,

I attended Product Camp Atlanta last weekend hosted at the Georgia Tech Research Institute Conference Center. It was my first product camp, so the only knowledge of format and content I had going in was from the description on the web site. The topics of the conference focused on product management and marketing which are the two primary areas of my career experience and interests.

Overall I was pleased with my decision to go to the all-day camp. Time was given to the sponsors to introduce themselves since they provided the financial backing to make the event possible. However, it was very non-intrusive to the day and didn’t come off …Continue reading >>

Bob Williams

2 examples of business learning maturation in our culture

February 5th, 2010 | Leave a comment | Tags: ,

Two events on my schedule this week revealed to me a maturation of business learning in our culture. It’s pretty exciting for me to see these transformations, and I know they’ll continue to evolve in the future.

The first event was high school orientation for my daughter. She’s a rising freshman and we were invited into the local high school for a brief overview of the curriculum. What surprised me the most was the abundance of business related electives that are now available to students. At our local school there is a full department named Business Education. Some of the course areas include engineering, marketing, video production, and computer science. …Continue reading >>