The past few week have been absolutely hectic ...  I've been super low on the visibility front.

 

First, there was 3 weeks of MCM training.  It was a great experience that I plan to discuss in further detail later today. 

 

Then, literally a short 2.5 hours later after the class was completed, I was off to London to speak at the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference. 

 

It's probably been said already, but hats off to Steve Smith and the Combined Knowledge crew for putting to together an absolutely amazing show.  The attention to detail made the entire experience flawless.  The only "issue" was the maze like structure of the hallways.  I felt like a little mouse running around trying to find stuff.  :)

 

Aside from the maze, the venue and the general location of the conference could not be beat.  It was directly across the street from Westminster Abbey.  The CK crew had even placed some really cool looking flags out front - talk about interesting - SharePoint and Westminster all in the same view.  How cool is that?

 

 

 

The other nice thing about the conference was the simple fact that you had an opportunity to meet a lot of people.  Some famiilar, some soon-to-be familiar.  Conferences truly provide an opportunity to share experiences.  The best examples are the Expert Panel sessions - where folks get a chance to ask all sort of questions.  Some questions are easy, some hard, and some just are just hot topics with folks on both sides of the argument... sometimes, the Panel asks the audience questions...  good conversations all around.

 

When the conference was done, it was time to take a small vacation... out to Bristol and Edinburgh... in all, a whirlwind of 5 weeks.  Now it's time to deal with the email and blog backlogs... :)