Beside team communications, this blog features posts written by community members. If you have a Lift account you can also share your thoughts and ideas by clicking here. Here is a post about UXconference, a conference organized by Lifters Diana Malerba and Luca Mascaro in Lugano later this year.

I am writing to present you UXconference, a user experience conference we are organizing in Lugano, Switzerland. The conference is about innovation and new ideas in user experience strategy, mobile site and application design, playful ux and agile design.

Starting on December 3, we want to create a first "Swiss" appointment to talk about innovation and to let people meet and know each other and generate new ideas, to contribute to the future user experience.

We believe in people, in innovation, in experiences. What about you?

See you at UXconference! Check the programme, speakers and register!

Thanks to your feedback and ideas we made several improvements to our website:

Share / Save

At the bottom of each page you will now find a button that allows you to:
• share and save the page on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Delicious, etc
• email the page to someone
• bookmark the page

Personal information tab now the default tab

We received several complaints about the fact that, when you want to edit your Lift account, you don't go straight to the personal information tab. This is fixed, you will now be taken to the right place.

Participants demographics

We all want to know who is coming to the conferences, both in personal and in general term. We added personal profiles and participants lists two years ago and this part is doing fine. For general information, we would like to be able to display:
• in what sector participants are working
• what kind of job they do

This information means a better understanding of the Lift audience, and it will be displayed at the top of the participants page (like we did for Lift France).

We need you to fill these new fields in your profile if you haven't already!

Need anything?

If you have ideas or requests for the liftconference.com website, please don't hesitate to send them to us using the feedback form!

The Lift website is constantly evolving and here is another nice new feature: improved community search! Use the form below - also accessible via the search box available on the top right of each page - to find anything you want about other members of the Lift community.

Want to see who comes from Italy? Who works for Swisscom? Who is interested in "social networks" or scifi? It is all available via the same form.

As Lift gets more visibility a bit more spam shows up. We had an abusive blog post for gold farmers, get automated spam via most of the site forms, and this morning some of you received unsolicited emails from a company called World Television.

I quickly contacted them and this should now have stopped. We will investigate what happened and raise the security in the future. Sorry for the inconvenience and please let us know about spam you might get via Lift so we can remove it.

Update: I forgot to mention there is of course no way to contact all lift participants in one email. The way the previous mailing worked was that, from the participants list, the names were grabbed by an intern who used Google to find emails. So we can't do anything except make the sender realize this is completely unproductive. In between I received a formal apology from World Television.

Our webmaster Kaspar has been working his magic on this site to bring you some new features. He just rolled out two nice improvements:

See which of your buddies are coming to the next conference

There is now a small blue sticker on the profile picture of buddies who will attend Lift09. This is what I see on my account:

Improved search results

Some icons have been added in the search results to help you identify the type of content returned. This is what a search on bruce sterling presentation will return. Notice the nice little icons telling you "this is a video" or "this is a blog post".

Have some ideas on how to improve this site? Contact John Elbing and attend the What can we make of the Lift Community for the other 362 days? workshop!

We have partnered with Mobify.Me to bring you a mobile version of our website. Point your browser to m.liftconference.com and you will see a site optimized for iPhone, but also Blackberry, Android and Sony Ericsson!

As the wifi traditionally fails miserably during every single conference happening on this planet, this will allow you to connect to our site and get the most important information regardless of the situation.

As the new poster goes to print we decided to find a new tag line to define what Lift is, and what it does for us. After an intense brainstorm - and a lot of help from our friend Michèle Laird who is a constant source of inspiration for anything related to letters and words - we came up with:

Lift, inspiring and connecting pioneers since 2006

To quote one of the exchanges we had while working on this: "the tone is simple, catchy, discreet, action-driven in a non-pushy way; It is inclusive, makes people feel good, and emphasizes continuing innovation over a specific domain of competence. It also leaves the Lift format open for evolution".

The "since 2006" is a little bit of a joke, putting in perspective how those technologies that seem to have been here forever (remember life without email?) are in fact still very new.

I hope you like it. If not you will have to wait next year to see it go away, it's being printed as we speak ;D

Now that we have created the Lift09 participants list you can see who is attending this year's conference. It's time to upload a new profile picture, and change your name to something that starts with an "A" to be on the top of the list. At least if you are a woman you can try to wed one of the first row guys, you have a very unfair advantage on me!

To edit your profile, login or request a new password!

If you registered with Amiando but don't have an account on this website (liftconference.com, I precise it for all those reading from the RSS reader), we now have a little module that will:

• automatically create a login for you
• register you for the conference (i.e. your name will appear on the participants list)
• and send you an email with a URL to create a password

Pretty complicated stuff, but not really. You register with Amiando. We create an account on Lift so you can propose a talk, edit your profile, connect to your buddies. Two birds with one stone, and an easier life for you.

Another night spent updating the website and here come the new features!
• the buddy list has been dramatically improved with pictures of your Lift contacts now appearing up at the bottom of your profile
• connecting with other members of the community is easier, and you can browse members by interest, country, organization, and conference attended.
• you can republish your Flickr, Delicious, Digg and RSS to your profile using the activity stream feature.
• search has been improved for users

Check your account and enhance your profile, you can really go a long way to prepare your attendance to a conference using the site. And our community manager and perennial first buddy John Elbing is preparing many new initiatives to boost pre-conference exchanges in early January.