Well, it’s the first day of the conference, and thing are going well.  For those of you that are wondering about the attendance, we are down by 7% from last year.   The other conference at the hotel, just down the hall, is down by 50%.  I’ve talked to a few other show organizers, they if they aren’t just flat cancelling their conferences, the industry across the board is down by an average of 30%.

In the welcome address, I talked about a few predictions I have for the upcoming year and beyond.  We had standing room only in the general session.  I tried to get an audio recording to post here, but apparently I don’t know how hit a record button on the digital recorder.  Sorry.

After my general session, we started our workshops.  Many people have already expressed being satisfied with what these workshops provided for them.  I know I have received a few complaints about having to pick from 4 or 5 different session that were all scheduled at the same time.

I would consider that being successful.  If I can schedule a list of session make it hard time to pick just one, then I have been successful in the change to the conference program I started 3 years ago.

We ended the day with a class on writing articles, and how it can enhance your position in your company as well as a few other benefits.

Tomorrow (Tuesday), there are another set of good sessions, before the sneak preview party.  I’ll post some pictures of the conference and party tomorrow.

I a few session that I was doing today, so I didn't get to my Twitter updates.  You can follow the Spectrum Conference Twitter at:

http://twitter.com/intlnathan

Clif Oliver is also doing some Twitter updates as well. If you are interersted in following his you can find it at: http://twitter.com/clifoliver