Today is the day! After months of informal discussion, organization and anticipation we finally reached the day of the Association Social Media Unconference (for more on unconferences). Jeff De Cagna did an awesome job laying the foundation (setting up a wiki for the event), securing a great space (thanks ASAE & The Center), and encouraging people to sign-up and participate.

For me the event was going to be an opportunity to get out of Philadelphia and into D.C., meet a number of you folks who I know only from a virtual perspective and hopefully share some knowledge, camaraderie, and good times with. Needless to say I was really excited about the event and thrilled to be involved with it.

However, I guess it wasn’t meant to be. A small home related situation (my HVAC system died) has left me stuck waiting at home for a service man to arrive and repair the fan unit. Not a fun way to spend your time, at least not compared to how I had planned on spending the day. This whole experience does make me wish that was closer in terms of where I live/work (even though Philly to DC isn’t that far) it’s still much farther than 99.9% of you were going to have to travel today or any day to meet up with other association folks. I guess I am on an island of sorts and it bothers me from time to time.

Regardless, I hope all of you who are attending the ASMU have a great day! I can’t wait to read/listen (podcasts please!) to some of the sessions and I want to thank folks like Jeff, Ben, Rick, Zach, and Sue for taking such a leading role in this and for their thought leadership in general. Hopefully, the next time we do this we could have a virtual component so we could accommodate folks who want to participate regardless of where they are. I’ll start looking for potential solutions!