Twitter is quickly becoming another issue. It’s amazing how quickly that twitter has become a resource for help as opposed to an avenue for slacking. Would love to have full access to it but that’ll never happen here. Now that being said I can read/respond to twiiter from LinkedIn but I try not to do that much. :-)

I’ll definitely have to take a closer look at SPTechCon, that might be something I can slip into the budget for next year.

Bill, I wouldn’t expect you (or anyone else for that matter) to make a major change of that nature this close to the conference. I do think it’s something to keep in mind for next time.

Adding a track for 2007 content would be good and I think that the majority of your presenters have sessions they could do that would fit the bill. They may be “dated” but as Mark pointed out in an article a while back the more that someone does a session the more refined it becomes and the inherent value of the information being presented goes up.

On the “secure” conference, not sure that’s what I had in mind. I do think there would be some value in maybe some post-conference sessions or a track focused on government/DoD the next time BPC is in DC. That expands your potential audience fairly significantly IMO to government employees (CIO’s, deputies, etc…) that might not otherwise be inclined to attend.

I would also agree that a conference that is focused strictly on 2007 content wouldn’t be a draw and that’s not what I was suggesting. But I do think think that a complete lack of 2007 content eliminates a huge potential audience. If I have to justify attendence to a conference I have a far better chance of getting approval when there is something that will directly benefit my employer/customer now as opposed to a couple of years down the road.

The other thing that BPC has going for it is that in some cases sessions really are version “non-specific”. The underlying concepts related to search findability, governance, information architecture are essentially the same or very similar regardless of the product version.

Thanks to both of you for your responses. As Tony pointed out it’s great that people like yourselves are this engaged and involved in the community!

As much as some want additional content, the market is usually larger for cutting edge content. We have alot of people looking at 2010 implementations in 2011 and are using the BPC in August to help them with their upgrade/deployment planning as well as getting a better understanding of the product in general.

I’d be game to develop a track at the BPC for Army/DoD. If interested, ping me offline.

Will this help?

Frank & Jay -Wow, when I was working for the Marine Corps none of the social networking sites were allowed – big change. I agree that how it is used can be scary, undoubtedly a problem will arise unless enough training similar to the PII requirement is implemented.

As for CAC most contracting organizations see the cost, training and inherent problems caused by a CAC implementation and go screaming and running in the opposite direction. Having been involved in implementing CAC authentication in a SPS2003 environment I can tell if that I owuld have joined the stampede running away if I could have.