Thankfully, we've survived another conference season.
Monday, November 23, 2009 at 10:22AM Thanksgiving is the best holiday on the calendar. And with my favorite holiday only days away, we’re now getting inundated with Thanksgiving-related stories in the media. One perennial Thanksgiving storyline is the requisite report on the road-choking, airport-swelling glut in holiday travel. I typically avoid this scene altogether and stay home for the holiday, which may be one of the big reasons I like Thanksgiving so much. For those of you who do plan on traveling this Thanksgiving, I feel for you and hope these tips help.
On the other hand, the option to stay home is not as readily available to me for much of the rest of the year. Rather, like many of my peers and colleagues in the education technology field, I spend the entire autumn on the road. In fact, Thanksgiving week will mark the first week since Labor Day that I won’t be playing “planes, trains, and automobiles” in order to attend a conference, trade show, or speaking engagement. While others will be gearing up for an annual pilgrimage, I’ll be kicking my feet up for the first time in recent memory. This made me realize: for many of us, the October / November education conference season is kind of like a quasi-Thanksgiving that gets celebrated throughout the entire autumn season.