Your Attendees Don’t All Want 400 Level Sessions
I’ve heard some talk from SQL Saturday organizers that they only want advanced sessions at their SQL Saturday, for some reason or another. This probably isn’t what your attendees want. Sure, some of them do. But a lot of people who attend these sorts of sessions want more introduction sessions. Have you polled you attendees […]
1000 Blog Posts Down, Who Knows How Many More To Go
Well, today is a bit of a milestone for me. As of today, I’ve published 1000 blog posts on IT Knowledge Exchange which is hosted by TechTarget. I’ve blogged about a lot of stuff over the years, including PASS, EMC World, SQL Server, Storage, Exchange, etc. Here’s some highlights from my posting over the years. […]
PASS Speaker Idol 2014 Review and Notes
This year the SQL PASS conference held their first Speaker Idol contest with the goal of getting new speakers into the PASS Summit on the strength of their presentation skills instead of their abstracts. And I think I can safely say that it was a resounding success. We started with 40 people who applied (38 […]
PASS Summit 2014 Speaker Idol—A Judge’s Perspective
One of the most interesting events I got to take part in during last week’s PASS Summit, was to be on the panel of judges for Speaker Idol. Denny Cherry (b|w) borrowed an idea from TechEd and sold to PASS—basically speakers who had never spoken before at PASS Summit would get the opportunity to give […]