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wobble_wobble
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Ireland
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 Posted - 07/14/2012 : 7:19:56 PM
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Jetze,
One handed economist view please.
I said something different. |
Joe
After everything that has happened during the month of Jan 07, I do believe that pigs fly backwards!
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jadgate
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USA
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Posted - 07/18/2012 : 1:54:39 PM
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Originally posted by Mark Minasi
I wanted O365 to host my minasi.com email accounts, and that's where the problem began. As O365 includes a lotta stuff for $6/month -- that 250-person-Lync conference may turn out to be useful, maybe I'll run an occasional 90 minute mini-seminar for $50 or something like that --
Mark-
Here's a thought for you for 2013, or Minasicon 2013: travel budgets are really under scrutiny where I work and elsewhere, I assume. In fact, if Minasicon 2012 had happened later in Q2, I probably would not have gotten it approved, as we have a freeze on travel on right now. So...where I'm going with this is: while I really enjoy the face to to face and in-person aspect of the conference, perhaps we may need to consider a virtual conference next year. I've used Live Meeting in BPOS/Office365 whatever its being called this week, (never more than for 5 - 10 people) and it seems to work pretty well. Test it out on a larger group and see how it goes.
The upside of a virtual conference is avoiding the attendant travel hassles. The downside is overcoming the technical hurdles and engendering a sense of audience participation.
My $.02
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James Adgate, CISSP
IT Auditor and Compliance Specialist
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
IT Security Policy and Risk Mitigation for Enterprises
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aval
Honorable But Hopeless Addict
USA
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Posted - 07/18/2012 : 6:06:41 PM
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Great idea! If not as a replacement for the face-to-face meeting at least as a supplement.
After all, aren't a lot of businesses using video conferencing to limit travel costs? |
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JamesNT
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USA
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Posted - 07/18/2012 : 7:12:07 PM
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Don't forget that for some of us, Minasicon is also our vacation and the one time others get to see the beach for the year.
And does anyone really want to give up going to Hooters?
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Mark Minasi
Chief cook and bottle washer
USA
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Posted - 07/19/2012 : 07:08:44 AM
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Jim and David --
I must admit to some mixed feelings about it, although of course I understand the sentiment 100 percent. For myself, I find web/video conference stuff very unsatisfying as a learning/teaching/communication method, and for reasons that I (frustratingly!) cannot exactly explain. Listening to Joe talk about running a cloud service in person for 75 minutes was fascinating; watching 75 minutes of it on my Web browser would be, I'd think, on a par with torture for me. (And no, the irony of that is not lost on me.<g>) Also, the interaction offline provides -- again, just for me, can't speak for others -- more than half the value. Getting to hang with, for example, Ed and Teresa offline (Scripting Guy and Scripting Wife) was great fun and a heck of a learning experience, as were dinners, lunches etc with the rest of the crowd.
So I'm not saying, "heck no," I'm just expressing one person's opinion. And I fully understand that this isn't a matter of in-person-versus-Web, for many it's a matter of Web-versus-nothing, as it costs money and time, and we're all busy! |
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Playwell
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Posted - 07/19/2012 : 07:15:06 AM
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We could do both. That way we could reach a lot more people then we do now.
I think I've learned a lot during the informal conversations. Almost as much as from the talks. |
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