Participation counts
So a couple of weeks ago, Annabel Watters, PC co-presented at Microsoft Connections in Corpus Christie and then sat a table at the San Antonio community events. We took the opportunity to hone our presentation skills, do a little vaca, as well as some business planning. It was nice and relaxing, intense at points but overall VERY PRODUCTIVE. We did similarly last summer, and so it was good to compare, where we were, where we are, and where we want to be. I'll not bore you with details for much of it, but I will say that Abbie and I both really enjoy getting up in front of groups and talking technology, and business. It's fun, informative, and entertaining for us, hopefully for the audience as well.
On to the point of this… so after the connections Event in Corpus Christie we decided to stick around for the TS2 Event, presented by Peter Gallagher. For those that don't know him, do so QUICKLY! He's a phenomenal resource for SBSCs. He has answers and is great leader for the community. Anyway Peter was doing his dawg an ponie show, and I started asking him questions. It's not quite fair, he was the Microsoft Liaison for the DFW-SBS Users group for a number of years while in CSS. We know Peter and he knows us. Well I asked questions and listened carefully to the responses and he even took the time to call on my son, when he had a question. Afterward, we left and enjoyed some swimming and sight-seeing around Corpus. The next day we drove up to San Antonio and the day after set up our table at the theater in SA. Well Peter came over later in the morning and we got to talking, his presentation was in the afternoon. He said the best thing to me in a long, long time…he asked if we were going to be in the TS2 event, because having us there to participate and ask questions in Corpus made that event go so much better. That really did make my day. When I was a kid, I was the one that would ask tons of questions and I sat up front to learn more, I still do that. Not to be a geek, but because my time is valuable. Life is a contact sport, and we need to get involved.
So as I was reading Vlad's Post today, I thought back on those events that we lead and that we participate in. So whether it's Connections, TS2, Users Groups or whatever, if you aren't engaged and participating, just grow some cohoneys (Spelling anyone???) and get involved. Participation counts!!!