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May 09, 2006 |
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Posted by Don Dunnington at May 9, 2006 11:18 PM |
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Wednesday I'm delivering a talk on the new web at the very venue where, exactly 10 years ago, K-Tron introduced our first website. It's hard to believe crowds gathered in our booth to see the Powder Show's first-ever demonstration of a website. It wasn't even live. I ran the demo from a CD because there was no broadband available then.
We've come a long way on the Internet in ten years; farther and faster than I think anyone imagined. I'll be joined by two of the early adopters the web: Joe Taylor, the founder of Powder and Bulk Dot Com and Joe Marinelli of "Ask Joe!" fame. We will be sharing our experiences on how to make effective business use of Internet media, whether it's called Web 1.0 or 2.0.
I just returned from dinner with Joe Taylor and his daughter, Diana. Though I've known Joe for years, and we've traded many emails and phone calls, this was our first chance to meet. Meeting people, of course, is one of the main reasons we still go to trade shows and attend presentations at conferences. This in part answers the question posed by Joe Lewis in his post, "Are Trade Shows Really Necessary?" An amazing amount of good work gets done today through online communication, but I don't think we will ever lose the desire, or the need, to meet in the flesh. If you're at the Powder Show, I'd like to meet you at our seminar. We'll be in the conference center on Wednesday, May 10, from 9 to 10:15am.
Don Dunnington
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