Dave's Adventures in Business Intelligence

I arrived home in Dallas from the conference late last night and now can start trying to catch up on all of the work that accrued while I was gone. I should be ready to start blogging again in a few days.

I did mention at the conference that I was going to post my presentations here on my blog, and I certainly plan to do that. My original plan had been to include each presentation in a post and then open those posts up for comments or questions. In reviewing that idea I am now thinking of taking a different approach, and I would appreciate any feedback on what might work better.

First idea is to do what I just wrote… posting the presentation and taking any questions or comments on the entire session. The second idea that I had was to post the presentations on a special page (rather than on a blog post) and then do a blog post about each major topic from the presentation. So I would blog about Index Awareness, then Shortcut Joins, and so on. This seems to me to have the advantage that the questions or comments would be more focused on a specific topic rather than being about any of the techniques that I demonstrated.

Doing separate posts would also allow me to experiment more with the podcast features that I had hoped to implement. The presentations would be posted on a Downloads page that would appear on the Pages area of the blog (see the top-right corner of the page and you will see what I am talking about).

At this time I am in favor of option 2; posting the presentations on a dedicated page and then blogging about each individual subject in more detail.

Thoughts?

It seemed that more than a few folks were disappointed that I did not dress up in a ninja costume for my presentation… 😛