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I'm now in San Francisco at the MaintainIT/TechSoup offices, after having attended the NetSquared conference in San Jose. Post-conference my head is full of ideas about technology and innovation and potential connections. I think there's value in stepping outside of our own specific world of libraries now and then to look at what's happening with technology in other fields. What's happening in the corporate world, for example? Or, as I explored at NetSquared, what's happening in the larger world of non-profits?

Since joining the library profession in 1995, I have attended A LOT of library conferences. In the early years, I found the presentations most useful, as I learned more about the field I had entered. In recent years, however, I most look forward to the opportunity to see old friends and to have informal conversations with people in my library world. I read a lot of blogs and journal articles, etc... so the conference presentation material now feels very familiar.