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Day 1 – Good Morning Silicon Valley!

Today is day one of the Tech Field Day and I am about to head downstairs to the hotel lobby to meet up with the group, jump on the bus, and head to our first destination – VMware’s Briefing Center in Palo Alto.

My flight was one of the last to arrive last night, but I did get to spend some “table time” with a few attendees before calling it quits due to the early start and busy schedule Stephen Foskett has arranged for us today.

I’m not sure I will be able to actually live blog since we are changing locations frequently, but I’ll do my best to update this post as the day goes on. Think of this post as a journal that will be refreshed as often as possible.

Please also check out my embedded Tweetgrid after the page break to follow my real time reactions as the day goes by. You can also follow all the Tech Field Day bloggers and their tweets with the multi column, web based Tech Field Day Tweetgrid.

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Disclosure: The GestaltIT Tech Field Day is an independent event being held in Sillicon Valley on Thursday 11/12 and Friday 11/13.  The event brings together a unique group of bloggers for sponsored technical presentations, demos, and hands on excercises. Tech Field Day bloggers are free to disclose all information presented on their respective sites and using social media. Although all bloggers attending have had their travel expenses covered by the event sponsors, none of the attendees are being compensated for posts or comments, and all are free to express opinions whether positive or negative in nature. For complete information about the event, the attendees, and the sponsors check out the Tech Field Day web page.

Day 0 – Travel & Tweetgrids

I’m putting in 2/3 of a work day today before my flight to SFO. Even so, I expect the twitter chatter to ramp up as the day advances, so I’ve started an embedded Tweetgrid filtered for just my tweets and the event hashtag , #techfieldday, after the break in this post. For a full web browser experience with all of the attendees check out my TechFieldDay Tweetgrid here. If you already have a Twitter account you can also quickly follow all Tech Field Day attendees and sponsors with a single click by following these Twitter lists:

• gestaltit/authors
• techfieldday/attendees
• techfieldday/sponsors

Did You Know Contest Winner

The winner of the pre event “Did You Know Contest” was selected and announced yesterday via this tweet:

“Congratulations to @DavidFix of Mr. X! He is the winner of our #TechFieldDay “Do You Know” contest!”

Look for more information about Tech Field Day Day 0 and the rest of the event here on VM /ETC over the next few days!

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