SpiceWorld 2014
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I have to confess, I'm not a conference guy. I'm a big fan of YouTube at the moment. I find you can watch really good seminars or training sessions for free from the comfort of your home, versus driving for a couple of hours only to find that the speaker you've signed up to see is actually a bit crap. With YouTube, if you get bored or its not relevant, you just click on something else. Sure, the quality varies massively, but there is some great stuff out there.
I get that conferences are good for networking, but I'm just not great with people so fail to get as much out that side of things as I should.
I mainly go to them for a free trip to London, which I suspect is why most people go. Some boring seminar in the morning, followed by a few hours wandering around the The National Gallery looking at paintings - that's my idea of a good day at work!
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@Carnival-Boy said:
I have to confess, I'm not a conference guy.
I wasn't until I started going to SpiceWorld. I was invited as a speaker or I would have never even attempted going. I had no idea why it would be useful.
Needless to say, I've not missed a SW since and have attended some like Microsoft's Partner World (also as a speaker) and it was really great. Dell World was okay. @Katie just did the GFI conference and thought that it was really good.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
I mainly go to them for a free trip to London, which I suspect is why most people go. Some boring seminar in the morning, followed by a few hours wandering around the The National Gallery looking at paintings - that's my idea of a good day at work!
At SW Austin the conference events go from 7AM until 2AM. You have to skip a ton of stuff to be able to do anything "extra."
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@scottalanmiller said:
I wasn't until I started going to SpiceWorld. I was invited as a speaker or I would have never even attempted going.
I enjoy speaking, just not listening. I've only been asked to speak once at an ERP conference and it was great.
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@scottalanmiller said:
At SW Austin the conference events go from 7AM until 2AM. You have to skip a ton of stuff to be able to do anything "extra."
As far as I could tell from you and @ajstringham 's Facebook feeds, you spent the whole time eating and getting drunk.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
I enjoy speaking, just not listening. I've only been asked to speak once at an ERP conference and it was great.
That's because you are an ERP specialist
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@Carnival-Boy said:
As far as I could tell from you and @ajstringham 's Facebook feeds, you spent the whole time eating and getting drunk.
Pretty much sums it up. Well unless my boss is reading.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
As far as I could tell from you and @ajstringham 's Facebook feeds, you spent the whole time eating and getting drunk.
It is a drinking conference for sure. My feed is misleading, though, since it is specifically the feed for the bar events.
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@scottalanmiller said:
My feed is misleading, though, since it is specifically the feed for the bar events.
That's what they all say.
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@Carnival-Boy seriously though, I spent most of my time talking with vendors and other IT people about specific subjects that will help me in the near term as well as a couple longer term projects.
I did attend three sessions, but only 2 of those were decent, and neither was for the reason listed.
I went to the powershell because I wanted to see how it was presented because I have heard how good they present and I am thinking about presenting next year.
I went to Pertino because I wanted to see what the iOS version looked like and because I wholeheartedly support that company . -
We had tons of good customer and vendor interactions. It was a great conference for us, extremely busy.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Rob-Dunn said:
...and thanks for the kind words about our Powershell session! Martin and I love doing it and would enjoy doing a tool building session (like SAM said, a logic flow toward solving a problem).
Maybe a higher level session to be delivered at MangoCon?
Wait...there's going to be a MangoCon? I know I would be interested!
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@Rob-Dunn said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Rob-Dunn said:
...and thanks for the kind words about our Powershell session! Martin and I love doing it and would enjoy doing a tool building session (like SAM said, a logic flow toward solving a problem).
Maybe a higher level session to be delivered at MangoCon?
Wait...there's going to be a MangoCon? I know I would be interested!
Other than the name being a work in progress, yes. There is another thread where it got mentioned. @Minion-Queen is kicking around ideas.
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There will be in the next 6 months. Look for thread to go up soon on that. The what are we going to call it... no idea. MangoCon is dumb
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@Minion-Queen said:
There will be in the next 6 months. Look for thread to go up soon on that. The what are we going to call it... no idea. MangoCon is dumb
What about the Spanish ConMango! The convention with mango!
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@Minion-Queen said:
There will be in the next 6 months. Look for thread to go up soon on that. The what are we going to call it... no idea. MangoCon is dumb
goCon has a cool ring to it...
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ConMango via Convention.... with mango by convention, ha ha.
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Mango Madness?
Mangos on Ice?
Mangos Locked in a Parking Garage? Oops...wrong convention...:P -
What about something like just "Connections" because that's really the goal.
