Busy times indeed! Between the Web 2.0 Expo colocated with the Interop conference at the Javits in New York and the ITExpo in California so much was happening all at once I couldn’t keep track. Oh and the parties and events. Each night of Web 2.0 there was a party, with a newly minted kindergartener there was no way I was going to make them with one exception. Atlantic ACM delivered the Business Telecom Service Excellence Awards on September 18th. Dr. Judy Reed-Smith, a class act I might add, honored winners and invited guests at the Yale Club, the winners were:

- Embarq: Retail Incumbent Provisioning, Customer Service, Large Business and Enterprise Data Value
- Fibertech: Retail Competitor Sales Reps, Provisioning, Network, Customer Service, Large Business and Enterprise Data Value
- PAETEC: Retail Competitor Large Business and Enterprise Voice Value
- Qwest: Retail Incumbent Sales Reps, Billing
- tw telecom: Retail Competitor Brand, Billing, SMB Voice Value, SMB Data Value
- Windstream: Retail Incumbent SMB Data Value
Congratulations again to all the winners!

So yes, a busy week indeed. Now if I was out west at the TMCNet event ITExpo, I would have been at Stealth’s party. On the subway this morning I was fortunate enough to run into Shrihari himself who, sleepy eyed, was delighted to let me know that he was happy with the turn out and reported it was a success (of course it was!). I was sorry I missed it as I knew some of my friends were there (Hunter Newby) and I would have had a nice time catching up. But since we’re all in New York anyway, we’ll just have to make time locally.

So that leads me in to another busy week here. I’m blogging on a Monday, which I don’t normally do and a soggy Monday it was. Not because it rained – it was actually a gorgeous day marking the first day of Autumn. But I had to head in to the city for a meeting and a sick passenger on the subway caused extensive delays that with my perfectly timed day pushed me 40 minutes off my schedule. New client meeting started with out me, I arrived 40 minutes late. But all is well that ends well. I shouldn’t let these things get to me but you know how it is – they do.

So if I didn’t have a family and all I did was work and was a slave to my career I would have such a fabulous social career life! Today was the MIXX EXPO – FREE. I would eat and drink like a queen for sure… but alas.. another one bites the dust… maybe next year – http://www.mixx-expo.com/2.8/.

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