{"id":195,"date":"2007-08-31T16:13:14","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T00:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/testblog.sapien.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/31\/conferences-why-do-you-go-or-not\/"},"modified":"2007-08-31T16:13:14","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T00:13:14","slug":"conferences-why-do-you-go-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/31\/conferences-why-do-you-go-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Conferences &#8211; Why Do You Go (or not)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always curious as to what brings folks to different conferences. Right now, IT Pros in the US have a few basic choices: Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft Management Summit (MMS), Windows Connections, and TechMentor. Which of these &#8211; if any &#8211; do you attend, or <em>would<\/em> you attend? Why? I know some folks like to hear the &#8220;offical word&#8221; at a Microsoft show, while others prefer the &#8220;real deal&#8221; that non-Microsoft presenters can share &#8211; what makes you want to go to a particular conference? Or, if you never want to go to a conference &#8211; why for? What would conferences have to do differently in order to earn your attendance?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always curious as to what brings folks to different conferences. Right now, IT Pros in the US have a few basic choices: Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft Management Summit (MMS), Windows Connections, and TechMentor. Which of these &#8211; if any &#8211; do you attend, or would you attend? Why? I know some folks like to hear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}