{"id":999,"date":"2006-09-20T13:55:13","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T13:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/be-a-good-conference-attendee-have-a-good-time-and-learn-a-lot\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:59","slug":"be-a-good-conference-attendee-have-a-good-time-and-learn-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/be-a-good-conference-attendee-have-a-good-time-and-learn-a-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"Be a Good Conference Attendee, Have a Good Time and Learn A Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom (to this day) sends me out into the world with the same old family pep talk that she heard herself when she was a wee lass, &quot;Be a good girl, have a good time, and learn a lot.&quot;  Even if I am just running out to the grocery store, those are usually her trailing words as I go. Therefore, I was kind of inspired when I stumbled on a few places on the Internet spouting a similar mantra for <em><strong>conference attendees<\/strong><\/em>.  So, go forth and, &quot;Be a good <em><strong>conference attendee<\/strong><\/em>, have a good time and learn a lot.&quot;  But, before you go, check out these resources: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/elearningtech.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/be-insanely-great-professional.html\"><span>eLearning<\/span> Technology:  Be an Insanely Great Professional <span>Conference<\/span> Attendee<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aect-members.org\/convention\/node\/15\"><span>AECT<\/span>: Top Ten Ways to Get the Most From an <span>AECT<\/span> Convention<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hitchhikr.com\/index.php\">David <span>Warlick&#39;s<\/span> <span>Hitchhikr<\/span>: &quot;connect, share, respond and grow knowledge out beyond the place and time of the event&quot;<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <!-- technorati tags begin --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; text-align: right\">technorati tags:<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/AECT2006\">AECT2006<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/AECT\">AECT<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom (to this day) sends me out into the world with the same old family pep talk that she heard herself when she was a wee lass, &quot;Be a good girl, have a good time, and learn a lot.&quot; Even if I am just running out to the grocery store, those are usually her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249,194,250],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aect","category-design","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}