GlueCon – It’s All About the User
What am I doing blogging at 2am? Preparing for my panel tomorrow which, although entitled “Platforms and Clouds: Building Out Web Apps in the Sky”, we’ll subvert to a different theme. The panel includes; Sam Charrington from Appistry Peter Coffee from Salesforce.com Jeff Collins from Intuit Jeff Fedor from Parkvu I met with some of [...]
A Conference is About Community
I’ve been watching with interest a great series of posts over on Pamela Dingle’s blog. It all began when Pamela tried to get a blogger pass for the RSA conference. What really caught my eye, though, was James McGovern’s response – specifically, “Achieving the goal of educating attendees is never the goal of those who [...]
3 Free Tix to the Glue Conference
How timely of Rick Burnes to post his Trade Show Trouble cartoon. It expresses my feelings about large trade shows and conferences – am I suffering from acute conferencitis? Yes, large shows are half-dead nowadays – but some conferences are worth attending even in bad times. The Glue Conference on May 12-13th in Denver may [...]
A Quick Intro to GlueCon
When Zoli Erdos first asked me if I’d be willing to write some guest posts on CloudAve around the topic of Glue Conference, I was actually a bit hesitant. After all, Zoli’s done such a great job of explaining why he likes the conferences I run, and what Gluecon is about, that I wasn’t sure [...]
Glue – Get Sticky Now
What is Glue? Definition from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: 1 a: any of various strong adhesive substances ; especially : a hard protein chiefly gelatinous substance that absorbs water to form a viscous solution with strong adhesive properties and that is obtained by cooking down collagenous materials (as hides or bones) b: a solution of [...]
Some Conferences Are Worth Attending Even in Bad Times
Layoff news day by day, major conferences are getting canned left and right. In lean times, the Conference-in-the-Cloud concept starts looking more and more attractive. Still, there’s no true substitute for real, live, face-to-face discussions and networking. Except it does not really happen at a lot of major conferences: session rooms are often deserted, there’s [...]
