Coffee Mug
Innovate was here at GCC this last week, and there have been a ton of blogs posting notes from speakers, so I’m not gonna add to the glut of sweet information. We all learned a lot and saw some sweet stuff; that goes without saying, but what did you take away from it?
Whenever you go to a conference you end up coming home with a notebook full of ideas, and an arm load of swag. The notes get shoved in a drawer, the business cards might get added to your contacts in Outlook, and that sweet pen you snagged at the booth with the weird Caveman back drop falls to the back of your pen cup (incidentally your pen cup is from a conference from 2 years ago).
Of all that though, it always seems that the only thing you actually use is the coffee mug with the name of the conference or one of the vendors on it.
Sure we were all encouraged by the speakers and those around us in our fields, but what are you going to do THIS WEEK that’s different? It would suck if we did a conference, and had freakin Guy Kawasaki come and all you got out of it was to use 30pt font in your power point. You paid waaay too much to have just come away with that.
I want to know, what was your coffee mug? What was useful to you NOW?
So do something different today, and leave a comment on my blog telling me what your coffee mug is that you brought home.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:36 pm
My coffee mug is not a mug at all. While at the conference I was trying to take diligent notes when not engrossed in the conversation. I have at least three windows open when taking notes. The first is a word document that is my detailed set of notes. A run down of the topics covered, who said something particularly poignant, as much as I can get in there. The second window is my gem. Its my list of action items. When someone suggests a solution to a problem I have I put it here. Or a web site with technology that could help me, goes to the action items. I use the notes to digest the full experience, but with the action items, I have somewhere to start on Monday after the conference/roundtable.
That’s how I change the next week, how about you?
….I’m in Kansas City now waiting to fill up another list.
October 6th, 2007 at 12:06 am
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