Everyone is blogging about their experiences, and I'm reading as many of them as I can!
So without adieu here are a few of my favorite things from #DF12:
Monday night the #GirlyGeeks DF Chatter group teamed up with the Salesforce.com Women's Network, and had a Women in Tech panel. I ran the EventBrite sign up, and helped coordinate. There were 755 women signed up!
Jill Rowley of Eloqua (@Jill_Rowley) was the moderator, and did a FANTASTIC job! We also had:
Hilarie Koplow-McAdams, President, Commercial/SMB Business Unit, Salesforce.com
Geraldine Gray (@GeraldineGray), Senior Consultant, Appirio & Founder of the GirlyGeeks
Rachel Thornton, Vice President, Dreamforce, Salesforce.com
Penny Herscher (@PennyHerscher), CEO, FirstRain
Sarah Friar (@thefriley), CFO, Square
Deepa Patel, President, Halak Consulting
These fantastic and inspiring ladies were sitting on our panel... it was terrific, and I have to say that I'm sincerely honored to have been a part of this!
Tuesday I hosted a session with Mary Scotton (@rockchick32204) called "Building Business Apps - Coding Optional", and sort of choked a bit... LOL but Mary says that no one knew it other than she and I, and Shannon Hale (@shannonsans) so it wasn't that big of a deal. I did a repeat on Friday and did MUCH better. I hope that I get another chance at presenting!
Wednesday I did a little shopping at Macy's, and got some killer boots, then had dinner with a bunch of the #GirlyGeeks before the @ChiliPeppers show and then went to the @Appirio party! I met a bunch of people, and I'm sure I missed someone on my list that I posted on Twitter earlier this week... and if I missed mentioning you, and you read this... Let me know and I'll send a shout out to you!
Friday was sad, and someone stole my old iPhone3 at the airport, but I made it home finally at about midnight CST. I slept most of the day on Saturday, and then spent a lot of time with icy hot and heating pads on my shinsplints and aching feet!
Today, it's back to the real world, and while I love my job, and my house and the fantastic city of Houston... there's still a part of me that wishes that I was independently wealthy and could just spend as much time in San Francisco as I wanted! I've been there three times now, and not yet have I really spent any time being a tourist!
I'm trying to save up enough money so that next year, I can go up a day ahead of time, and come back a day late! I want to do some stalking of my imaginary boyfriend @JamesFancoTV, and visit the redwood at Muir Woods, and ride a cable car and go over the Golden Gate Bridge!
So now I'm off home from the office, after answering about 200 emails and closing about 15 cases today!
And if anyone wants to start planning meeting up at DF13, let's schedule it now so we don't run out of time!
XOXO
Shannon
