Okay, I especially miss your weather! Palm Desert was sooo nice…I recall fondly as I gaze at some quick photos I took, like this one of the palms and the mountains, while I busily hustled between conference sessions and networking opportunites at DEMO…..
Then I had the misfortune, late last Friday, of returning to Minnesota — just as the coldest temps in seven years were moving in! I’m talking several days in a row where it never even got above zero, all day long (!!)…and lows overnight all this time have consistently been down between minus 10 and minus 20 F.
This is insane! I should be in California. I have a place at the beach I can work from for cryin’ out loud! Trouble is, most of my client base is here in the Twin Cities. And yes, friends, I am now officially back out blogging and stirring up trouble consulting, fulltime. Wish me well! [Or should I say: startups beware! Graeme’s on the prowl again… 🙂 ]
But note to self after the past week: “Expand your client base, Graeme. Sign up one or more California-based clients — soon! — before you turn into a block of ice.”
Ideas and leads for those client relationships gladly accepted, o valued blog readers (especially you California ones). Graeme’s for hire! Whether for new-media consulting, marketing strategy, messaging and communications, content development….and, well, you get the idea.
Now, let me get back to thawing out my feet!
[By the way, I have to mention some very cool link-love I got from my DEMO attendance and coverage last week. These two were especially nice: the post Brian Solis, of PR2.0 fame, did on the opening DEMO party….and DEMOletter’s Complete DEMO 07 Coverage, which appeared soon after the event. On the opening day, I even made it onto TechMeme’s home page at one point, thanks either to Katie Fehrenbacher of GigaOm linking to me, or Gabe Rivera doing so — haven’t figured that one out yet.]
Nice contrasting pics!
And welcome back to the wonderful world of consulting. Hopefully we’ll be working together again soon.
(For those that don’t know, Graeme and I go back to the early 70’s together, we can almost read each others minds, makes working together really easy)
Hey Graeme, it was great to see you at DEMO! Looking forward to catching up when you’re in the Bay Area…stay warm!
Graeme, it was a slooow drive from my home in Minneapolis to Eden Prairie for work this morning. I hope you didn’t have to move around much in the mess.
To make matters worse, the cable went out at the house, so no Internet. I’m relying on my Treo.
Hey, Ed — I’m lucky, I didn’t have to drive anywhere today. Which is great after a foot of snow got dumped on us yesterday! Lately, since I’m back on my own consulting fulltime, I get to work from home now, facing the woods here in West Bloomington. It’s great! Just happened to have a day today without meetings — a nice break. Now to extract myself from the keyboard and actually go somewhere tomorrow!