BarCampBankSeattle: A weekend of Smarty-Pantses
By Brent Dixon on July 20, 2007
Man! It’s been a while since we’ve updated the blog. I admittedly felt very sheepish when Trey and I were speaking in Pittsburgh yesterday and we said, “Don’t let your blog go over two or three weeks without updating.” It’s entirely too easy to be cognitively aware of an ideal, while at the same time being passively content with not hitting that ideal. Sometimes blogging and staying connected on a million social media sites can be a real energy-sucker.
But you know what? It’s completely worth it. This weekend is the perfect example of why.
I’m sitting in Seattle’s SeaTac airport waiting for Trey and Brandon to arrive. We’re here for BarCampBankSeattle. This is going to be a weekend of talking ideas with some of the most innovative people working in finance today. A good many of them are folks we’ve had relationships with over the past year, or longer, but have never met in person. One of my ongoing aspirations is to be the dumbest person in the room at any given time, and this weekend I can put a big fat gold star next to that goal.
This weekend, I plan on:
- Calling William Azaroff “The Waz” in person, and watching him flip me the bird
- Comparing Jason Knight to his caricature in American Way magazine
- Watching Tim McAlpine juggle something. And asking that he please co-present with his son at The Symposium
- Finally shaking hands with Robbie Wright
- Buying Jesse Robbins a drink or two before he presents
- Hanging out with Brad Garland and Mark McSpadden. Because although we all live in Dallas, we have to fly to Seattle to see each other.
- Investigating how Jim Bruene knows so much about everything
- Crossing my fingers that Shari Storm doesn’t go into labor in the middle of a roundtable discussion
I’m jazzed.
ps: The weekend was almost smarter – This morning I’d planned on hanging with Hee-Haw Marketer Paul McEnany and the rest of Dallas’ Likemind, but my idiot evil car blew up and I ended up at the Honda Service Center instead. Likemind is a group of marketers, bloggers, and social-media-ites who get together every month or so and caffeinated themselves. Next time.
Tim McAlpine on July 20
I’ve actually been practicing juggling my son. Ahh, how about that? See you in Seattle tomorrow.
Tim
Robbie Wright on July 22
About time we got an update! And it was good to finally get to meet in person!
William Azaroff on July 22
I heard that!
Cammie Morrow on July 23
Yeah I wasn’t going to say anything while we were in class in Pittsburgh that you hadn’t updated in awhile…
Ron Shevlin on July 23
Brent: PLEASE let us all know how Jim Bruene does know so much about everything. I’m serious. Wasn’t more than a week ago that I was chatting w/ some former Forrester colleagues and we were commenting on exactly that point. We could not figure out how he does it!
brent on July 25
I can’t tell you how great it was to meet all of you in person (except you Ron…looking forward to October).
Tim – your new middle-names are hilarious. You’re my favorite child-juggler.
Robbie – Seriously, that truck is huge. Also, check your email.
William – Thanks for not flipping me the bird. And I’m glad you twittered about it being hard to get back into the swing of things after the surreal BCB experience. I agree.
Cammie – Thanks for not calling me out in front of all of your friends. I owe you.
Ron – On Saturday, Jim promised to tell us all his secrets “tomorrow.” But then ended up not making it on Sunday. So it remains a mystery. I blame witchcraft and the liberals.
Stephanie on July 27
Brent now honestly‚Ķ I was at the conference in Pittsburgh and I am so disappointed that you are a walking talking contradiction to your intense message on updating blogs. Dare I write it‚Ķ”LOL”! Whatever I won’t tell anyone ha because you just did. It was nice to meet you and Trey. I hope you had an awesome time at BarCampBankSeattle.
Brent on August 06
I did have a blast, Stephanie.
And like I said to Cammie, thanks for not calling us out. You’re nice for that.
But you know what? Actually, we probably do need to get called out if we’re saying something inconsistent with what we’re doing. So if that ever happens, let’r rip.
It was nice to meet you too.
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