Alpha Mind Blog

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….

So, here I am all excited to take part in Owyang and Scoble’s cool micromedia meetup today.

I even logged in and reserved my spot.

I have a very succinct and possibly funny video in my camera.

In my bag.

Next to me.

With no stinking firewire card to capture it.

With at least 25 minutes between me and the nearest firewire.

With a client having an emergency that’ll occupy me for the next three hours.

With the meetup 2.1 hours away.

Sigh.

But I’m stubborn and I’m participating anyway. Read on:

The future of media is where these kinds of connections will actually work for nearly all the people who attempt them.

Sigh.

Then again, the future of communications will continue to be largely asynchronous.

And so, how about those of you who come by here subscribing to my feed so that tomorrow you can come back and see my succinct and possibly funny video?

Later y’all. Bissoux.

And while you wait you could sample some of my other videos, here and here.