I’m just going to throw this out there, since the lack of basic manners shown by a few people at the Business Blogging Conference is hurting my head.
Three basic rules for conferences by Mr. Punk:
1) People came to the conference to hear the speakers speak, not hear you talk about your latest project to your two best geek friends. If you came to the conference to hang with your peeps and play around on the Internet, that’s cool, but don’t do it in the room where the session is going on (people paid a thousand bucks to sit in that room).
2) Don’t take calls in the conference room – and turn of the ringer. It is unbelievable how many times this has happened…and we are only at the half way mark. Even if you think you are talking on the phone really quietly, people can still hear you, and you are annoying.
3) I dig that you are a working mother and all, but please don’t bring your infant to the conference. I am sorry, but burping your baby during a session that we have paid a good amount of money to attend is selfish and rude. Babies are great. Babies are beautiful. No baby hate here. But please, get a babysitter. I didn’t pay a grand to sit in a room with you and your baby.
Alright, I am feeling a little better. Not trying to be all whiny - the conference has been pretty good – and I am learning some good stuff. Calcanis totally threw it down in his Keynote. Buzz B. is the man. And yesterday’s session on video and podcasting was great. And I am in a community building session right now.
Just had to get that off my chest.
