WhippleHill’s annual User Conference wrapped up in July to rave reviews from clients about the new location, the variety of offerings, and the excitement generated by announcements of forthcoming products and enhancements.

More than 350 WhippleHill clients gathered at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston for the three-day annual User Conference, which featured keynote addresses by generations expert Neil Howe and digital storyteller Jonathan Harris, as well as four all-conference sessions introducing WhippleHill’s Ecosystem of partners, the new product Mobile Podium, significant enhancements to Multimedia capabilities, and an exploration of the ways WhippleHill products can enhance the classroom experience and ease teachers’ busy lives.

This year, President Travis Warren encouraged attendees to document and respond to their User Conference experience using a conference wiki, Flickr, del.icio.us and Twitter. The wiki, in particular, drew many participants, as presenters used it to upload their slides and notes, and clients logged their reactions to everything from the keynote speakers to the Boston restaurant scene to the forthcoming iPhoto plugin.

Faith Caron, of the Ancona School in Chicago, used the wiki to assess her overall UC08 experience. “As a ‘first timer,’ I found the sessions to be very beneficial - an opportunity to validate what we were already doing and an opportunity to be pointed in a better or right direction when we really weren't sure what we've been doing! Jonathan and Neil were fabulous - unique keynotes, unlike any I've heard at so many other techie conferences. Your entire company is warm and welcoming! It was so nice to put faces with voices. Sharing conversations with other schools added yet another dimension to the whole experience.”

Returnee Richard Portelance, of Canterbury School in Connecticut, concurred, writing, “Great job with the conference this year. From the venue to the speakers to the enhancement ‘big-picture’ sessions, it all made for a top-notch affair.”

Plans are already in the works to bring the User Conference back to the Seaport World Trade Center in July 2009.