July 23, 2004
Lunchtime at Blog On
Well now its lunch time here at the conference and its a LONG lunch to allow lots of the great hallway conferences that everyone loves at these things.
One of the panelists this morning told a story about how he had been at a dinner meeting recently with a bunch of people and realized that he felt oddly uncomfortable. He realized that he would rather have been on a conference call with them so that he could use his social networking tools while he spoke to them -- so he could find out what clients they had in common, what their goals for the quarter were, things like that. Meeting with them in real life was so much slower -- he had to tease out all that information bit by bit. We all acknowledged that that was really scary, but I totally know how he feels.
For someone who is so interested in social networking, I really wish I was better at the actual fact to face netwroking part of all of this.
But I did go and introduce myself just now to Craig of Craig's List (and, yes, I told him I was a fan, which is probably not the best way to start a real conversation). After all, I learned about our Sunday knitting group on Craig's List and through there met quite a few people who now I consider good friends (a couple of whom may even be reading this!)
Anyway, back to trying to meet new people I guess (though its nice to sit off on the side and blog... the sun's come out, lunch was good, and there's 15 minutes more until the next panels...)
Someone brought their dog, so I should have a cute picture to post later. He's even wearing a conference name tag, though I don't think you can tell in the picture since he's sitting at the table...
Posted by Emily at July 23, 2004 01:45 PM