What I learned from conference season...

...is I greatly admire Jason Busch. He writes about his past few weeks and his blistering schedule of conferences. While managing his consulting business, writing his blog and balancing his two young ones when he is home. When I saw him at Sapphire, he seemed sleep deprived - take care of yourself, my friend.

Michael Lamoureux (fondly called The Doctor) requested I write something similar. I wish I had much to report. In the "season" I have been to Software 2008, Sapphire and last week to WES 2008. But a total of 2 days across those conferences. In each client commitments or conference calls meant I had little time for the events.

Let me echo Jason's point about networking at conferences. To me that is the highest value from most events, followed by the expo floor where you can see many solution providers in a compressed time frame, then executive keynotes, then other sessions.

But the biggest "aha" for me - buy my clients tickets to these conferences so we can together take advantage of the events and not be on conference calls with them when I should be on the expo floor or a keynote:)