As part of being open and transparent – and wanting to have some fun, the Microsoft Canada Audience team thought it would make sense to give you access to all of our information about TechDays Canada 2008 so you can use it as a reference. We don’t want to stand between you and your audience when it comes to sharing information about the event. We’ve seen some great posts out there from D’Arcy and Miguel, so we thought it best to give all the information out for those that want to leverage it. Heck, even our boss John Oxley has a post out there now, have you read it?

Connect you with the information: Full Track information, session titles and detailed abstracts are available as well as a schedule for both the one day and two day events. Get them and other updated information as it changes from our SkyDrive online public storage located here.

Have Some Fun: If you want to get some creative graphics, useful links and other “bling” to use however you see fit (banners, blog badges, email signature etc) we’ve created a page with some sample work on our blog that you can either directly link (so you don’t have to host) or copy and store locally. The download page and basic instructions can be found here. All that we ask is that you enable them to be hyperlinked to the following URL http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9458049.

Tagging Requests for Visibility: Speaking of blogs and online conversation – if you would like to be part of the communications, aggregates and get some more visibility to your blog / audience / post we’ve setup the Technorati Tag TechDays_CA. If you tag you blog posts with this tag and ping technorati, you will be included in aggregate feeds about the event and contribute towards the conversation.

For the Tweeps: If you are using twitter – we request that you use #TechDays_CA as the hashtag (Information on hashtags and how to use them can be found here). Likewise, be sure to follow http://twitter.com/techdays_ca for both personal tweets and relevant aggregate feeds including up to the minute changing information.

For those Photographers: here’s the flickr group, come join up and share your photos leading up to and during the TechDays events. You can also tag your photos with the TechDays_CA tag to gain some more visibility online. We’ll be featuring “picture of the day” randomly from the group on the blogs as well as referencing pictures on our Facebook fan page.

Facebook Aficionados: the official fan page can be found here. Spread the word!

Read the complete post at http://owsug.ca/blogs/brad/archive/2008/09/16/TechDays08-are-here_2100_.aspx