Dan Merchant (pictured above, dressed as Bumper Sticker Man) is one of the Echo 2010 keynote speakers, and we couldn’t be more excited about having him. If case you’re not familiar with Dan, I want to point out a few ways you can get to know him:
If you ask me (not that you did), we launched with a pretty nice lineup of keynote speakers and breakout teachers. However, the breakout teachers lineup is incomplete — we’re going to be adding to it non-stop over the next few months. Case in point, we added three people today (Matt Knisely, Nathan Davis, and David Womack). There are already a few more that we’re going to add next week. You get the idea.
All that to say, keep an eye on our Speakers page, this blog, and our Twitter account for the latest on the ever-expanding Echo lineup. Oh, and when you’re ready to add yourself to the (unpublished) list of Echo attendees, you can do that here.
We hope you think the new site is pretty, but more than that, we hope you’ll check out all of the Echo 2010 information. You can get started on the Details page or on the Speakers page. Then, when you’re ready, you can register for Echo 2010 here.
If you pre-ordered a 2009 Echo DVD set, your order has been shipped. For everybody else, now’s the time to grab your set. As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, the DVD set includes some great stuff:
Keynote Sessions from Ben Arment, Mark Steele, and Phil Cooke
The Church Panel (featuring Carlos Whittaker, Bobby Gruenewald, Scott Hodge, Cynthia Ware, and Conway Edwards)
The After Effects User Group
Breakout Session MP3s
Breakout Session PDFs
8 Motion Graphics Tutorials by Barton Damer and Trent Armstrong
In the weeks following Echo 2009, we sent out a survey to our attendees in hopes of a little feedback. In the survey, we asked attendees to share with us one or more of their favorite moments of the conference. Yesterday, I took the results, removed all the proper nouns (Phil Vischer, Phil Cooke, Ben Arment, Mark Steele, and Johnny & Chachi) and created a Wordle word cloud for a presentation. I admit, I was pretty pleased by the results:
