So I'm finally back home and catching up on about a million e-mails I received last week while I was at MMS. I thought it only appropriate to post a quick message on my myITforum blog to publicly acknowledge the great work and level of community participation within the myITforum community and beyond that myITforum represents. Finally being able to put faces to the names I've seen on the myITforum SMS e-mail list over the years was a great experience for me personally. As a long time member of the SMS list, it was great to see myITforum really blossoming into a power of its own at MMS; the mad rush for the myITforum booth when the expo opened was something that had to be seen to be believed! My astonishment at actually obtaining a myITforum party badge was only surpassed by my amazement of being an award recipient at the party--which was probably obvious to anyone there by the dumbfounded look on my face when my name was called! Thank you again for that and the certificate will be proudly displayed on my office wall Monday (I'm still afraid to show my party button in public for fear of being mugged for it!) :-) This was my first MMS representing Microsoft as a speaker, but I felt amazingly little pressure speaking. It felt more like talking to a group of friends than a public speaking engagement.
p.s. Next year Todd owes me a coffee for calling my name out in the ask the experts session during my "coffee break" lol