{"id":1852,"date":"2008-10-02T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2023-03-26T13:07:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T20:07:25","slug":"a-look-back-at-the-partnership-symposium-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=1852","title":{"rendered":"A look back at the Partnership Symposium."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PartnershipOkay, I really meant to live blog the Partnership Symposium, but I was too engrossed with what was going on to bother. Sorry ’bout that.<\/p>\n

I know Andy<\/a> and Morriss live-blogged some of the sessions, and lots of it was streamed<\/a> and archived by Brent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of the main things I liked about the conference was that Ron Shevlin<\/a> played host and moderator of the whole thing. I’d never seen that done before – Ron introduced each speaker and then interviewed them about their presentation and moderated a Q&A with the audience. It gave a continuity to the conference which is often lacking.<\/p>\n

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photo credit: Gene Blishen<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

He asked one question in particular to many of the speakers I thought was valuable: What CU would this NOT work for?<\/p>\n

That one question made the presenters work harder to define what is the strategic value to their topic by defining who it would not be a good fit for. He kept us honest, while being on our side (with one exception, perhaps).<\/p>\n

Ron’s main takeaways from the two days were:<\/p>\n