Conferencing, Part 2

The conference in Montreal was a lot of fun. I had time to get reacquainted with old friends and met several new ones. And contrary to my initial expectations, several of the panels that I went to were great. One that was particularly interesting dealt with communication problems in organizational groups, while another was centered on communication technologies in organizations. There were other good ones, too, but those were the ones that really stood out in my mind. My presentation went fine. The presenters before me took too much time, so I had to cut my material short. But all in all, it was fine, and I think I got sympathy from the audience for having to speed things up. The conference was great. Montreal as a conference site, on the other hand, was just ok. It probably would have been fine except that the US dollar is doing so poorly against the Canadian dollar. So things that would have been a little over-priced anyway were really out there after the exchange rate. But even still, it was a good weekend.