There were so many memorable presentations at #lavacon2014 that I felt saturated. Content is King! Make a plan! Try new tools! It was energizing to be in the middle of it. The program was like an intellectual menu that stretched the mind. One session still stands out for me, and I don't want to let go of it yet. Bill Swallow had a great Halloween-themed talk on "Content Strategy vs. The Undead." He used our favorite phantoms as metaphors for all the different chaos agents at

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