@trey has introduced me around Greenville and I will become a resident in 2011! You need to find time to make it there. We are house hunting. I’ve attached a google map with some personal landmarks.

Do you follow the #custserv chat? its a little late. surmise 0200 Wednesday morning. adding you to my google reader blogroll. cheers.

http://goo.gl/maps/HOAE

We all have different objectives and resources available, of course; but sometimes the difficulties are not as great as they may seem. My challenge is to juggle limited resources and also a training event planned in that week.

So, on the basis that “knowledge” is the first step (“procedures” and “practice” being the other two, but that is another story!), this page might help to provide people with some useful information on which to base their thinking.

Yes, you have a superb subject area for the Social Story Conference in Denver! If you are considering holding a Social Story Conference in Greenville, then that makes a trip to Greenville even more attractive.

Thanks for your generous suggestion of complementary tickets! How can we resist your hospitality now? Thank you, Trey, in advance, for whatever you may be able to offer.

Looking forward to reading more as it becomes available.

We’re working on getting everything ready to put on the web for our 24 September event in Greenville. As soon as tickets are available, I’ll let you know how folks from the UK can get complimentary tickets.

One development since the last time I spoke with you: I’m working on something called the Social Story Conference. The first one is in Denver, Colorado on 24 August. Based upon the feedback I’m getting from that event and after talking with Scott Gould at length this past weekend, it seems to make sense to do the Social Story Conference in Greenville on 24 September.

We should have the website up for Social Story Greenville this weekend.

Stay tuned…

Thank you very much for your ongoing encouragement.

It seems that the only airline that flies from London to Greenville is US Airways. They fly from Gatwick airport (LGW), London to Spartanburg airport (GSP), Greenville, South Carolina with at least one stop (in Charlotte, North Carolina).

This seems to be the most obvious route. However, there are other options.

Please pass on any other information that you might have on flights or on other topics related to recommended places to stay, other events worth considering and so on.

John

Like you, I try to be selective in learning; however there is often a tension between the cost of unnecessary elements and the value of providing contextual perspective.

You are, of course, right that there is a balance to be struck between what is kept and what is dropped. Yet few people seem to grasp that extraneous elements are not only unnecessary, but also both distract and detract from the pertinent elements.

Good luck with finishing your website.

Really thought provoking article. I use ‘less is more’ as a useful mantra in learning. Of course it’s the distillation of what is kept and what is not that provides the challenge but its one worth facing up to.

Still working on my new website (currently a frustrated blogger).

John Curran