I was so upset to see that Andy stole my march madness line… but I figured that unless I said something, maybe people would think he stole it from me. What? Darn - blew that one.

Seriously, we’re gearing up hard over here for our death-March of trade shows and announcements:

• We’re kicking the month off on March 12th at Ecomm 2008 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Other than the un-conference at the VON show the next week, if you live in the area, and you’re not there… not good. Forward thinking doesn’t get any more forward than this, and the line up of speakers is over-the-top impressive. This is the place to think out of the box. During my talk, I’m going to try to convince a room full of voice geeks to simply give up innovating voice applications, and to start using voice to innovate other applications. In preparation, I’m watching submissions 101 every night. (Really, I am. Suicide Choke is a good reason not to turtle.)
• After that, I’m giving the communications enabled business process workshop at the VON show the very next Monday. If you need a jump start into the new world of voice in the enterprise, mashups and extending process using VoIP - show up. The husband of Mary Melissa Margaret McCarthy is going to be wearing green during that day, and Guinness that night.
• Then, the next morning, I’ll be nursing a hangover.
• After I can see again, we dive into the real meat of the month: the VON Unconference. Hosted by Jeff Pulver and myself, the unconference is a two or three hour get together where the audience sets the agenda for the session, and then self organizes to discuss it. If you haven’t been to an unconference, it’s a great experience, but this one is extra-special. Most of the speakers at VON will be showing up, along with luminaries from the worlds outside of telecom. You see, if the EComm speakers are excellent at forward thinking, then the VON speakers are excellent at monetizing forward thinking. If you want to have two hours with the absolute best business/technology guys in the service provider world, that’s where you’ll be.

I’ll see you there!

Posted by Thomas Howe @ 11:01 am | Filed Under Lead Stories |

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