Home office visits give me the opportunity to meet up with bloggers! My husband & I had dinner with Michael Allison & Dave Traynor. (Tris Hussey tweeted in sick). It was funny to hear Michael explain the connections. I met Tris in Seattle at the Web Comm Forum event. I had met Michael online thru Dan Schawbel.  I introduced Michael to Tris online. (Tris is in the photo below). Then Michael met Dave Traynor at a local event he presented at (Tris had brought him). So it was a full circle of connections.

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We had a great dinner at Pagliacchi’s. Michael has finished his Master’s degree in Communications & is looking for work in a PR firm.

Dave Traynor is a blogger & writer. Dave you’ll have to leave a comment & list out what you do (I don’t want to misrepresent it).

The next day I caught a tweet by Tris Hussey that he was downtown. I invited him to the ACDSee offices (because he’s an addict now). I maybe take responsibility for that because in December we bonded over our Nikon D80’s. Tris works for B5 media & trains over 350 bloggers worldwide! As he was being introduced to the developers & various dept’s it was obvious he was connected. I had to chuckle because he was ignoring half the noises & they had my attention.  I’m just not that wired  (Granted I am online a lot but not with a mobile device. I haven’t found a need for a data plan yet.)

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Thanks guys for meeting up with me in Victoria! It was great to see you again – and I look forward to the next time.

I do admit that one of the downsides to working remotely in a rural area is that I don’t get together in person with other bloggers often enough. But I’m working on remedying that & will be attending two social media events in the Twin Cities in May. The MN Interactive Marketing Assoc is hosting an event on May 15th (a panel with a Forrester rep I understand – not @jowyang though). They’re also having a social the night before. Then on Friday I’ll be joining the Twin Cities Social Media breakfast that @RickMahn started a few months ago. It will be great to meet my MN Twitter friends in person!