Mommy's Musings

Tonight, I am staying at a hotel at the local airport to leave early in the morning for Las Vegas to attend the Ecommerce Summit 2010.

People have been asking me what I look forward to the most about the trip.  The funny thing is for me it is as much about getting away and seeing a new place as it is the learning, networking and meeting new people.

I am really looking forward to meeting the people I did not meet in Atlanta for eBay on location last month and seeing the people that I have not yet met.

I look forward to networking with people whose businesses are where I would like my to be next year and 5 yrs in the future.  I want to learn effective ways to move my business forward in 2010 and beyond.

What truly amazed me though was how sad I was saying good bye to my kids.  I had an entire night tonight all on my own and realized I had not real idea what to do with it.  No kids to try to get to bed, no eBay listings to get accomplished.  So I actually sat and watched television for the first time in ages.

One of the most interesting thing I discovered when looking at the agenda for the week, is that thanks to social media over the last year I have build connections with a lot of the presenters there and if not the presenters themselves then people that know them.

Social media has been the best networking experience I have encountered.  I am years ahead of where I would have been if I had just stuck to reading forums and searching articles on the web.  I am learning daily what is really important and what is fluff, and I realize I do not have a lot of time for fluff in my life so I really appreciate the meat in the posts and tweets of the people I follow.

I am sure I will have much more to say over the course of the week so what my tweets, facebook pic and blog posts as the week goes on.

If you can’t make it to Las Vegas do like I did last year and make sure you listen to the podcasts from the Summit and watch any live video that is streamed on either You tube or Justin.tv.

I know I felt like I was there last year just with the amount of information that came out of the summit via social media.

Talk to you later in the week.