Besides providing a foundation on the origins of the social web, we'll cover the latest and most important trends and dive deep into where this is all going, at both technical and conceptual levels. From the concepts of digital identity, relationships, and social objects, we'll cover emerging technologies like OpenID, OAuth, Portable Contacts and Activity Streams, and more.

You will leave the workshop with an integrated, holistic view of how the open social web can be used to reach a wider audience and improve community engagement on your web service.

Agenda

Part I: Strategies and trends

We will spring off to an energetic start with a high-level overview of the most exciting strategies and trends on the social web. Through real-world examples we'll introduce the building blocks (identity, relationships, activities) and demonstrate successful patterns we've put to use.

Part II: Technical building blocks

After a short break we'll dive into the many technologies that enable the concepts we presented in Part I: internet identity, the social graph, and activity-oriented social websites. Here we'll cover OpenID, OAuth, data portability, social objects, activity streams, and microformats.

Part III: Making it work for you

In the afternoon we'll be ready to pull together the strategies and technologies into hands-on guidelines for architecting a site for social interactions. This includes how to pull in content from third-party websites, syndicating content through feeds, developing APIs, and taking advantage of the Facebook platform and the OpenSocial framework.

There will be opportunities for questions and audience involvement throughout each section.

About the Faciltator

Chris Messina co-founded the Flock web browser and led the community marketing of Firefox. He runs Citizen Agency and co-founded San Francisco-based Citizen Space which kicked off the coworking movement. He co-organized the first BarCamp in 2005 and was named one of the Digital Utopians and People Who Populate Web 2.0 by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is a board member of the OpenID and Open Web Foundations, and a frequent speaker at technology conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo. He has been quoted in The New York Times, Business Week, LA Times, MIT Technology Review and Wired. Chris received the 2008 Google Open Source Award in recognition for his work advancing technology initiatives such as Firefox and microformats.

“How does Chris Messina always manage to have the best ideas about the most interesting work two years before the rest of us? I have no idea and I don't care. The ability to harness the future for the benefit of others and not simply yourself? That's a cowboy I want to ride with.” —Kevin Smokler, CEO of Booktour