Surprisingly little sharing of ideas from SMB Conferences

Posted on May 10, 2008 by Brian Williams

This weekend is a great conference, SBSmigration 2008 in New Orleans, put on by Jeff Middleton. Below is a link to topics being covered at the conference.

SBSmigration 2008

So far there has been little to no chatter via our peer’s blogs about topics discussed so far. I’m hoping for some good sharing maybe late Sunday or Monday. In the meantime, here’s the only item I’ve found so far that has any valuable content.

Allen Miller Computer Consulting

The SMB Summit, which took place in April, has had very little chatter about new ideas and discussions coming out of the conference. Below is the only link I’ve found that has valuable content.

Roger Heim’s blog Part 1

Roger Heim’s blog Part 2

If you attended the SMB Summit in Texas, or are in New Orleans this weekend, the rest of us would love to hear your thoughts, key topics and ideas. I had two important family events on both weekends preventing my attendance, but hoping to attend both events next year.

Follow up, a few more posts from Susan Bradley.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2008/05/10/what-runs-your-server.aspx

http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2008/05/10/the-view-from-calyptix.aspx

http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2008/05/10/microsoft-says-no-client-backup-in-sbs-2008.aspx

http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2008/05/10/why-vista.aspx

http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2008/05/11/pdf-attachments-for-the-handouts-given-out-at-the-session.aspx

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4 Responses to “Surprisingly little sharing of ideas from SMB Conferences”

  1. Vlad Mazek, on May 10th, 2008 at 1:15 pm Said:

    Wait a sec… are you actually bitching that people who paid and took their time to go to a conference out of time aren’t taking enough notes and passing them out to the public for free?

    Geez dude.

    -Vlad

  2. Brian Williams, on May 10th, 2008 at 2:24 pm Said:

    I know, begging for free stuff.

    I do recall at last year’s conference Jeff stating don’t let this conference be the end of the discussion on disaster recovery bring it to your clients, discuss it internally, bring it up at peer meetings.

    Sadly, the peer to peer chatter died immediately following the conference. I emailed folks I met to see if ideas or plans had spawned since the conference, this talk just ended with little discussion.

    Based on the little chatter I’ve seen, I’m afraid folks only attend these conferences thinking they’ll get all the information they need in two days while never getting those ideas out to be further discussed. I’ll just wait three months and get all the content for $60, $90 via taped video here it once and then let the value slip away too.

  3. Vlad Mazek, on May 10th, 2008 at 5:48 pm Said:

    You are seeing the SPF/riffraff stuff I’ve talked about for years now come into the greater awareness. Serious business-minded individuals realize that they are in a competitive field and they will not share their information freely with anonymous individuals that they do not see as being on the same level as they are.

    Of course, when “Vlad” says so the world ends.

    When the entire community behaves in that way it’s just the way things are…

    I wouldn’t hold my breath on it changing. But I do agree with you.

    -Vlad

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