\nThis morning, I woke to a wonderful email and I thought I would share it:\n<\/p>\n
\n\tGood morning Kimberly,<\/em><\/span> <\/em><\/span>I just wanted to send you an email to let you know how awesome you are!<\/em><\/span> <\/em><\/span>I have applied some of your indexing strategies to our website’s homegrown CMS and we are experiencing a significant performance increase. WOW….amazing tips delivered in an exciting way!<\/em><\/span> <\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n
\n\tThanks again,
\n\t<\/em><\/span>Jim<\/em><\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nOK, I seriously can't complain about the awesome part ;-)… but, what I think is so cool is that he sent the email. No, I don't expect everyone to send me mail after they implement a tip\/trick BUT, it's really nice when I do get an email (especially like this :). There are so many ways to improve performance and some can lead to significant gains (or minimized downtime\/data loss, etc.) and this is exactly why we (speakers\/RDs\/MVPs, etc.) do this stuff! <\/span>\n<\/p>\n
\nThe long story short is that it does cost you money to go to a conference (or, at least, time <\/em>to read blogs, etc.) but what we try to do at events like Connections is distill down the key points into our sessions so that you can [hopefully] apply these techniques immediately. It makes for fast-paced sessions and an information packed week but our conference just ended yesterday and I already have email from it. That's just really cool!<\/span>\n<\/p>\n
\nSo, I know the economy is in a tough state and I know that quantifying the gain of a conference is hard (especially when the cost of the conference is so easy to quantify) but the end result of some of this time away might be more than worthwhile! <\/span>\n<\/p>\n
\nTHANKS Jim!
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