Please excuse my absence, but I am in full summer mode for a few days. It’s nice to have some down time.
In addition to some much-needed rest, I am focused on the IABC World Conference in San Francisco June 7-10, 2009. I will present on strategic communication planning and management on Sunday, June 7.
I can’t wait to see IABC staff/friends there. An IABC World Conference recharges your professional batteries like nothing else.
In fact, IABC has given me every good thing I’ve known in my career:
- Every good job I ever had I got directly or indirectly from IABC, including consulting assignments as president of LES POTTER INCORPORATED and my beloved teaching job at Towson University.
- Every bit of professional development to keep me current (in addition to earning my MBA and current work on my doctorate) come from IABC’s excellent products and programs.
- My best friends are friendships made and nurtured in IABC.
Am I an IABC zealot? You bet. Join me in San Francisco, and you will see why.
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And here I thought you were quiet because you were Twittering away! I’ll look for you in San Francisco.
Les:
It will be great to see you at conference again. YES, I am an IABC zealot. This wil be, I think, my 10th conference . . .which I know makes me a rookie next to you.
But I always get something great out of the conference, be it new friends, new business, new knowledge, or new drink recipes.
I’m not speaking till Tuesday, but will be there Sun-Wed. Hope to run into you there!
Steve Crescenzo
Les – LOVE it. I’m a zealot for pretty much all the same reasons. Thanks so much for everything you’ve done & do for IABC. You’re incredible.
Hi, Les. Good for you – owning up to being an IABC zealot. Your zeal is contagious – I feel the heat of furvor coming on! Enjoy the conference – wish I could join you! cj
Hey, brother. You’re three reasons are also my three reasons for remaining an IABC member after 21 years. If it wasn’t for IABC, I wouldn’t have met you!
Hey Les,
Nice post! Glad to hear you’ll be at the conference. I’ll look forward to connecting, as always.
Great points about what IABC has meant to you. I tell people many of the same things. I’ve seen some really surprised faces when I tell them I can trace every dollar I’ve made since 1985 to IABC. But the friends all over the world are even more important.
See you in San Francisco.
Les, you expressed my own thoughts. It’s been a few years since I have been to a full conference and I can’t believe how excited I am to get back — the people, the excitement of learning, the great speaks, and the chats around the dining tables and bars! Cannot wait! I, too, am on the program, hosting a panel discussion with corp comms people on the internal uses of social media. Looking forward to that, too. Hope we get lots of audience participation.
See you in San Fran!