A mighty stimulating week so far
It’s been a great week so far. Tonight I’m going to try to catch up blogging it.
First, Monday morning, a very stimulating conversation over breakfast with Chris Pareja, founder of B2B Power Exchange. A great exchange of ideas about social media and different paradigms for business networking.
We both believe pretty strongly in face-to-face networking (it’s one of the hallmarks of B2B Power Exchange). But I’ve had a lot more of the experience of building true friendships online, so I believe in that more than Chris does. I also believe in taking real-world networks onto the web, an idea that I think was new to Chris.
I’ve been to one B2BPE event, a breakfast meeting in Oakland last month. It was great. Very well-planned, and although there was no way to influence who would be there, it turned out to be an interesting group. At least one guy there is likely to turn out to be a great complementary offering I can steer my clients to.
Tuesday was the highlight of my week: the geek dinner Hugh MacLeod set up in San Francisco. I could have written about it for two days after, it was so rich. Details coming next….