I’ll be spending the next few days in San Francisco, attending and speaking at the IABC 2009 World Conference at the San Francisco Marriott.

This is a trip I’ve been looking forward to for several months, largely because I’ll be connecting (and re-connecting, in some cases) with professionals whose work I’ve long respected and admired.

Things get rolling tonight with the FIR Listener Dinner. That means seeing Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson in one place (a rare treat!) and trading laughs with the likes of Lee Hopkins and Allan Jenkins, the dynamic roadtripping duo who have been driving down the West Coast this week.

Outta the Gate

If you see me running around the streets and hotel hallways of San Francisco with an audio recorder or Flip camp in hand between now and Wednesday morning, I might just be working on a project for Linda Johannesson’s Outta the Gate website.

Linda originally hails from Canada but now lives in Sydney, Australia. She’s travelled across the Pacific for IABC 2009 and has launched Outta the Gate to document “news, highlights, and ideas” from the conference. I’ll be posting interviews and reflections on the site as I’m able, and some of that content may cross over here and on my Daily Boo podcast, too.

‘Twitter for Communicators’

On Tuesday afternoon at 2:00pm Pacific, IABC outgoing chair, Barb Gibson, and I will be leading an hour-long “Twitter for Communicators” session. Barb and I are looking forward to plenty of questions from communicators who are just getting started in micrblogging.

Saying hello

I’m the goofy guy up and over there (photo taken by my LiveWorld co-worker Jay Bryant during our visit to Minneapolis last month). Particularly if we haven’t met before, please come over and introduce yourself if you spot me at the conference. I’d love to talk shop about your communications challenges and success stories.

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