App State Speaking, HR Focus, VC Breakfast, VC Coffee, Inventions & Windows Vista

Yesterday I spoke at stop three of the Extreme Entrepreneur Tour at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. Thanks to Jason, Hayes, and Caitlin for making the event great. About 175 students came out to hear Adam Witty, Michael Simmons, Sheena Lindahl, Jason Berry, and myself do two keynote speeches, a panel, and a workshop.

Next I’ll be in New York October 23-25 for the Clickz Email Marketing Conference, then in Columbus speaking at Ohio State on October 27. Then coming up on November 2 and 3 I’ll be in Chicago doing speaking events with the Windy City Roundtable, SCORE Chicago, and the Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization.

Today was a busy day. I woke up at 6:30, attended a Southern Capitol Ventures breakfast at 7:45 at the headquarters of ReverbNation, a web 2.0 music community startup with serious potential, then got to work around 9. I met with Steve Peha from Teaching That Makes Sense at 11am, then drove to American Tobacco Campus in Durham to have coffee with Intersouth’s John Glushnik.

This afternoon, I had meetings with two employees working out some operational/human resource issues, reviewed the stats on our Google Adwords campaigns, and met with an employee to review the Product Backlog and plans for the next development sprint.

This evening I randomly went off on two random tangents–first creating a list of inventions then reviewing the beta release of Microsoft Windows Vista, the next Windows operating system scheduled for Business release in November and Consumer release in January as well as looking at Office 2007 and the RSS Feed integration in IE7 and Outlook 2007 and the blogging capabilities of Word 2007. Microsoft seems to have gotten a good deal of inspiration from Mac Tiger OS X. It’s been six years since the last OS release and I think from what I’ve seen they’ve got some pretty good things up their sleeves that we’re going to start seeing over the next few months.

Just a few moments ago, I submitted an application for Broadwick to present at the SIIA OnDemand Conference.

Oh, we passed 6,000 customers for IntelliContact today! Cheers to that.