So, I got invited by Microsoft to attend an IT Pro Townhall Event. This is a panel discussion with many Microsoft Executives, including Steve Ballmer. I was one of the approximately 50 IT Professionals invited to Redmond, WA for the event. I arrived at 11PM Pacific and was too tired to post last night. My original flight with an arrive time of 2:20 PM got cancelled as we were heading out to the runway (long story
) Anyway, I am here now and I am looking forward to the event tomorrow. Topics of discussion will include upcoming virtualization and web technologies (two of my favorites). Dinner at a local winery is also being provided by Microsoft. I will probably post more about the meeting tomorrow (barring any NDA requirements
). For now, I am going to check out Bellevue. It’s actually not raining outside and my hotel has a great view of the hills in Bellevue, WA.
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Tonight, I just started reading “Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
“. Let me just first say that I haven’t even gotten through the introduction and I am already hooked. The whole premise of this book is a workshop approach to making your ideas more “sticky” or memorable (well received). I had to stop reading and make this post after running across a story in the introduction that made a point that I had already known (I have spoken about it before over at Spoon42.com). I had just never presented the idea as “innately sticky” as Chip and Dan Heath have in their book. They related the idea in a very simple story (a true one). As it turns out, “Stories” are one of the six principles that make ideas sticky according to the Heaths. Continue reading ‘“Tappers and Listeners” in IT.’
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