PGreenblog: Welcome to NY Yankees Baseball!! Its Going, Going, HERE!!!

I'm heading off to do some consulting in Boca Raton. Leavin' on a jet plane today and back REALLY late tomorrow. I only wish I was in Tampa, doing some consulting at Legends Field (soon to be known as Steinbrenner Park? Field? Stadium?). Spring training is beginning in earnest because the spring training schedule started yesterday and I think the Yankees start today. I want to streeeeeettttccccch out and swing a bat and field some grounders and I'm just so damned GLAD that the Yankees are back in action and the season begins. You, who know me, know my standard. Not only do the Yankees have to go 162-0 in the regular season, and 11-0 in the post season but they have to lead every single inning of every game - or I'll stress out and that isn't good. But baseball is in the air. So I'm waiting now for the 2008 Declaration of Yankees fandom in CRM and enterprise software and this year social software. There are enough Yankees fans in CRM to my knowledge to form a serious faction and take over the entire enterprise applications industry. We can seize power. So I need people in the industry to write me to declare themselves Yankees fans. I'm declaring me as a HUGE fan. In a few days based on the declarations and positions I'm going to talk about all the industry heavy hitters and others who are diehard Yankees fans. I know a lot of them but I want others to declare so I can do a significant listing.

Events of Importance

There are a couple of events that I want to make you aware of that I think you should give serious consideration to attending.

Web 2.0 University

The Web 2.0 University is a VERY important training session given by Enterprise 2.0 blogger and guru Dion Hinchcliffe and his associates at (natch!) Hinchcliffe and Associates. Hurry up if you live in D.C. on this one because the DC session is March 11 and there were less than 7 seats left when I last talked to Dion. What makes this particularly valuable is that you'll learn the key components of Enterprise 2.0 strategy and learn the way to handle the tools that make it work. Hurry up and beat your booty down to the site link that you can see in line one and sign up.

CRM Association 2008 National Conference

This one is not just near and dear to my heart, for a CRM person it is an absolute MUST go. This is not expensive and yet has some of the best content and, if you're a CRM practitioner or vendor, some of the best networking opportunities. Its outright cool. This year, Martha Rogers and I are keynoting days 1 and 2 respectively and without revealing much, lets just say there are some MAJOR surprises afoot for this -seriously cool things that would be definitely of interest to you should you attend. Plus an incredible speaker list for the size and quality. Its April 1-2 in Atlanta and if you want to find out more, go to this link and revel in CRM hog heaven. Sign up now. NOW!! NOW!!!! NOWWWWWWWWWWW!!!! Whew. Okay, that it. I'm working on a series of new concepts that I want to use in my book, and will be throwing them out to you in the next few weeks. One is commitment to trust (not privacy) through social networks and the other is peer to peer but in a way that you might not think of it. Heh. Heh.