{"id":6356,"date":"2008-01-23T15:44:28","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T15:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/my-schedule-tonight.html"},"modified":"2008-01-23T15:44:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T15:44:28","slug":"my-schedule-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/my-schedule-tonight.html","title":{"rendered":"My Schedule Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am blown away by the amount of people who have reached out to meet with me at the very last second at this particular event. So many people want to meet&#8230; I wish the show was 2 weeks. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I suspect many were caught off guard as this show happened so early in the year.<\/p>\n<p>I also think this is a great sign as so many people to date want to tell me about new products, new companies or new ventures.<\/p>\n<p>So if you want to meet I will be at all the receptions throughout the week and the meals.<\/p>\n<p>We have had standing room only sessions all day and the energy and excitement has been amazing.<\/p>\n<p>As often as I can I have been checking e-mail on the laptop or phone to stay up to date.<\/p>\n<p>I even took some <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/itexpo-more-reseller-shots.html\">photos <\/a>of a packed reseller <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/itexpo-east-2008-making-money-selling-voip.html\">session <\/a>I was moderating. There was a look of surprise on some of the attendees faces as I snapped shots of them.<\/p>\n<p>I must confess I even answered a few e-mails up there. E-mail is just so addictive.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mtstatic\/FCKeditor\/emoticons\/embaressed_smile.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The irony is that while I am at this live show which we expect up to 8,000 people to attend, e-mails kept coming in from social networking sites like Linked-in, Facebook, Spock and and who knows what else.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I think there are too many social networking sites and I think perhaps Spock is the one that pushed me over the deep end.<\/p>\n<p>That is why at least for the week &#8212; my networking will be done live or not at all. Hope to see you in Miami. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am blown away by the amount of people who have reached out to meet with me at the very last second at this particular event. So many people want to meet&#8230; I wish the show was 2 weeks. \ud83d\ude42 I suspect many were caught off guard as this show happened so early in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,179,160,199,197,188,189,118,190,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}