Well, I've been on a self-imposed blogging hiatus of sorts these past few weeks. Beginning the last week of August when I spent a week at the beach with my family not thinking of work (well maybe thinking about it - point is, I wasn't doing any)
I then traveled to San Francisco for the Office 2.0 conference. What a great event! I spent most of my time in the sessions listening to some really bright people and meeting with the likes of Robin Carey, Shel Israel, Giovanni Rodriguez, Jen McClure and Jeremiah Owyang. I even had the opportunity to make the acquaintance of Etay Gafni a colleague of mine, that until the O2O conference, I've never had the opportunity to meet in person.
Last week I was in Hamburg, Germany for a team offsite where we kind of huddled and figured out what still needs to happen before the end of the year, start the planning process for 2008 in earnest and taking some time to get re-acquainted with one other. One of the more interesting things we did in Hamburg was to invite a few journalists to attend - we turned the tables on them a bit by asking them the questions (foreshadow alert.)
From left to right: Peter Sayer (Paris Bureau Chief - IDG News Service), Georgina Prodhan (Reuters), Herbert Heitmann (Head of SAP Communications), Matthias Lambrecht (Financial Times Deutschland) and Andy McCue (Silicon.com)
This week I'll be in NYC for our A1S event. I'll remain quiet on that topic for now and let the bloggers we've invited share their thoughts on what they hear.
As you can see there's a lot going on (and that's only the tip of the iceberg.) For now I need to be heads down and focus on what it is I have in front of me. Speaking of what's in front of me, I almost forgot. I'm also in the process of redoing this blog. You might even say that the "accidental" part is about to end and the "purpose" part is about to begin.
So, cheers for now from the river Elbe (by way of NYC).
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