I attended the MS Vision to Venture event on April 15th in San Diego. Event details - http://officeliveoffers.com/v2v/default.htm

I arrived early to take advantage of networking opportunities. There was definitly a great table set up in the room and PINK theme. However, not a lot of heavy networking going on pre-show. I took this time to find the keynote speakers and introduce myself.

The exhibitor area was fairly small in size. The Pixel Fish video service was definitely geared toward the small business looking for an affordable video solution. This is also a great strategy to target the iPhone users.

Next exhibitor was Duct Tape marketing . A great blog to subscribe to. And who just happened to be standing next to the booth - founder of Duct Tape Marketing, John Jantsch.

The first keynote speaker was Susan Wilson Solovic of SBTV.com. A very inspiring business women, who took the stage by surprise and told business women to rise up and take charge of their businesses.

I managed to stop Rich Sloan of StartUpNation.com. He’s a very young and professional business person with lots of energy. He was very easy to talk to. I asked him how much time he takes to blog every week. Drum role please - 20 minutes per day. So even the new blogger can make it happen while drinking your Starbucks and writing your morning blog.

The overall feedback/comments on the Microsoft event was that MS was pushing their new Office Live Biz package a bit too hard. While they were giving away a free copy of the software, most savvy business people weren’t too keen on being hard sold in the middle of an educational event.

Till next time.