A night out with the guys

I am totally bummed.

I just spent a fun-filled evening with 4 incredible men and I have this great picture of all of us together, but I can not find the cord to transfer the photo to the computer!

Tonight, Bhupinder Chawla of Primus Software, Paul Arne of Morris, Manning, and Martin, and I hosted a dinner at BluePointe restaurant for Chuck Pendell VP of Sales and Puneet Gupta CEO of ConnectBeam.

They flew in from CA to be our inaugural speakers for the TAG Enterprise 2.0 Society.

We truly had a blast  and I hope that they are awake and recovered enough for tomorrow's presentation. I hope I am wake and recovered enough for tomorrow's presentation. I do plan to Live Blog it.

So the first bit of information that I found interesting tonight was when Chuck informed me that he has one of my business cards on his desk and does not know where he got it from, how we met. Let me emphasis something...they are based in CA! I have never been to CA and they have not been to ATL recently. Apparently I am getting around...in a good way!

Puneet and I shared "battle stories" about launching a company in a space that even we did not quite understand. He launched ConnectBeam about the same time I launched What a Concept! Their first client was HoneyBeam who looked at what they created and immediately understood the solution they were providing and to what problem. However Puneet and Chuck were still trying to figure it out. Together with their clients they are building an amazing company.

I shared with Puneet that since I had no clue who my market was, I just started calling people alphabetically. Now my client list is very heavy with A list clients :)

I am truly looking forward to their presentation tomorrow. However tonight I will leave you with a quote that I found a year ago when I was working on some case studies for a client regarding how to implement social software for internal communications.

Connectbeam provided  Honeywell's Internal blogging platform. This is the reaction from one of their employees:

"My company is cool. In the last 24 hours we've brought online a pilot project which is one of the very first, if not the first, internal corporate social networking/tagging applications. By internal I mean the service and server are running inside our network domain, yet our employees will be able to tag internal and external content.

Okay why is this cool? Well... the application is inside our firewall and will allow our engineers to perform knowledge discovery, research, and sharing across the miles... even if they don't know each other! GoogleBeam works in tandem with our internal Google search appliance."
source - http://www.socialcomputingmagazine.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=143

Update! I found the cord...here is the picture