Blog Post

PASS Summit 2013 Report #14

,

More quick notes, it was a busy day:

  • I saw down with PASS Board Rick Bolesta after the keynote to discuss his fifteen years of service. I’ll be publishing that interview sometime next week.
  • Lunch today was ok, not as good as yesterday.
  • I had a chance to interview the PASS Officers today at 2 pm. I’ll try to get those notes finished and posted in the morning.
  • At 3 pm I held an informal discussion about mentoring and some ideas I had for how it might be done at the local group level. That turned into a really good discussion, and that turned into a chance to do a trial run right there in the community zone.  Hard to describe in a few sentences, but thanks to a great group of people I got to do 8 iterations of a 5 minute approach to mentoring at a user group over the course of two hours. Lots more on this soon!
  • After that I took a break, networked some, and then walked back to the hotel to drop off my bag
  • Tonight was community appreciate night at the Nascar Hall of Fame. It’s connected to the Convention Center, a very nice set up. Good variety of food and plenty of it. Well organized. I think it felt less hectic than Gameworks in Seattle. I stayed for over 2 hours, then spent some time after that chatting with some first timers and then some friends.
  • I always like to ask the first timers if the Summit lived up to their expectations. We tend to talk about the event with such enthusiasm I worry about expectations being too high. Both people I talked to said it exceeded their expectations. Can’t ask for better.
  • I spoke with quite a few vendors today, all said that everything was going well and that being in Charlotte had not resulted in any problems for them.

I just finished packing up, amazingly it wraps up tomorrow. Before then I’ve got a few more people to see, I’ll be sitting in on the Board Q&A tomorrow, and I’ll be making time to watch Rick Bolesta do his presentation on leadership. I’m flying home tomorrow night and it’s less than a 2 hour flight to the same time zone. The only thing better would be having it in Orlando!

Rate

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

Share

Share

Rate

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating