Heading off to Houston for a big conference tomorrow, Fox help me. It will be okay - this will be the first of this type of conference I'll be attending in the new role that I started back in February, and I'm going to be doing some interesting work there. Much more relationship-based and less pure message control. I'll miss getting on stage in front of hundreds of people like I used to, but the new job has other compensations that make up for it.
The big conferences are good though because it pulls everyone together from wherever they're based - people you're on email with from Denmark, Germany, UK, Singapore, Quebec, but never get to see outside of Denver, Dallas, Munich, Toronto, or whichever weird city they're sending you this time. And everyone's going through the same disassociated Lost in Translation hotel-life experience, so there's a real feeling of comradeship & solidarity, carried through on that infrastructure of jetlag, chronic fatigue and alcohol. It can be good sometimes, when it works.
I hope it will be good this time.
Posted by case at July 5, 2008 11:35 PM