Conference Newbie

I arrived yesterday at Philadelphia as a volunteer and a Newbie to MW. Confession time: this is only the third professional museum conference I've ever attended in my short career in museums so I was a teeny bit nervous. But, my apprehension was short lived...  Everyone is super friendly which makes it easy-even for us shy folk who aren't normally inclined to walk up to people and introduce ourselves.  I've already met a lot of people (including many other newbies) and have talked to conference goers from New Zealand, The UK, Canada, The Netherlands and Hong Kong. I got a bunch of great ideas at Gail Durbin's workshop on Designing Activities to Encourage Online Engagement With Museum Collections.  Check out the comments in the workshop's website-where participants will be sharing and elaborating on some of the ideas everyone came up with. http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/workshop/designing_activity_to_encourage_online_engag