SHARE in Denver, August 2009

Last month I attended SHARE in Denver from August 21 through August 28.  Much of my time was spent in SHARE Board activities.  This coming year will be my fourth as Director of Conference Operations.  That means that I am responsible for leading the team that produces the content for our two conferences per year.  It is with mixed emotion that I announce that I am now the Vice President of SHARE.  I was appointed to that position for the next year replacing a SHARE colleague (Jim Michael, Fresno State) who was not able to continue in that position because of the economic crisis at Fresno State.  For this next year I will be picking up additional SHARE Strategic Business responsibilities in addition to Conference Operations.  Some of you may know that I was planning to run for the position of Director in the Denver elections.  This explains why I was not on the ballot.  We felt that it would be improper for me to take this appointment and stand for election at the same time. 

So, as you might imagine, I was pretty busy during the Denver conference.  I will not try to detail all of that here; however, I have built a more lengthily report on Wikispaces at SHARE in Denver 2009  That report has some of my notes from sessions I got to attend - mostly the keynotes, and information that I could share about my activities on the board.  The next SHARE conference will be in Seattle March 14-18, 2010.