Apart from feeling completely out of my depth talking about the topic, it went OK. There were a fair number of questions after the session, and some great comments too. Including one from Dale Askey, from Kansas State, who blogged my session and said enough to tweak the interest of the Endeca folks, who saw Dale’s post, emailed me, and asked to chat more about my ideas and why our users are not all over the facets in our catalogue. Cool, huh? Dale blogged about it here and Jessamyn (who was there and did a brilliant keynote) picked it up here.

The rest of the conference was great. I took a fair amount of notes and the to-do list I scribbled down for myself was ridiculously long by the end of the conference (always a good indication of how much I learned). Also, I finally realized that I am no longer the conference-blogger I once was (I think I’ve known this for a while now). My wrap-up, “what-I-learned” post has taken a back-burner to preparations for IL, but I should have that up in the next day or two. Hopefully.

I’m presenting about our Endeca implementation at Access this week and I’m in the throes of presentation prep at the moment. I think I’ve got most of the good stuff covered but I thought I’d put the question out there so that I can make sure to address the burning questions and other need-to-know details. I plan on fleshing out the content in a well-annotated presentation (which I’ll link to here for anyone who is interested & not at Access), so if there’s something you’d really like to know about our implementation, or about the process, let me know? Thanks!