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title: 'Portland Web Innovators: Five reason to attend'
date: '2008-04-01T11:47:20-07:00'
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# Portland Web Innovators: Five reason to attend

*\[Editor: Given the wealth of cool events happening in Portland on any given night, I thought it might be beneficial to have the people who drive these get-togethers give you their take on the events. “Why should you attend \[whatever\]?” So, with that, I introduce a new Silicon Florist series: Five Reasons\]*

### [Portland Web Innovators](http://pdxwi.com "Portland Web Innovators pdxwi")

[Adam DuVander](http://www.adamduvander.com/ "Adam DuVander") gives us five reasons we should all consider attending Portland Web Innovators.

- You enjoy topics that are a mixture of tech, design, and business.
- You like to learn about new projects and find collaborators
- You love building on the web, no matter what your job title is or what technology you use.
- You think about what can happen tomorrow, not what can’t happen today
- You want to learn from a live collaborative discussion between passionate people.

Sound like you? Well you’re in luck. Because the next Portland Web Innovators get-together is this week, Tuesday (April Fools’!) Wednesday, April 2 at [ISITE Design](http://isitedesign.com/ "ISITE Design") beginning at 7 PM. Entitled “[Publishing Platform Wars!](http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/448598/ "PDXWI: Publishing Platform Wars")” the gathering will provide the opportunity to join the pdxwi types—the real users of these publishing systems—as they compare site publishing tools like [Drupal](http://drupal.org/ "Drupal"), Bend-based [ExpressionEngine](http://expressionengine.com "Expression Engine"), and [WordPress](http://wordpress.org "Word Press").

To RSVP, visit [Portland Web Innovators on Upcoming](http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/448598/ "Portland Web Innovators on Upcoming"). For more information, visit (the spiffy new!) [Portland Web Innovators](http://pdxwi.com/ "PDXWI").