Post Conference Reflections about SCIP 09....

[Ellen Naylor]

I have written a couple of blogs about SCIP 09 in Chicago and would like to share them with you since many of us couldn't make the conference due to these tough economic times. I know Arik, Ken and August have as well. Why don't we share with those who couldn't be at SCIP's conference?

The first blog was about "Are We in a Rut in Competitive Intelligence Innovation?" which was a topic that Bill Fiora started on this Ning and Ken Sawka led at SCIP since Bill is recovering from a bike accident. I hope you're recovering nicely, Bill.

The second blog was about the Dialog on Social Networking in Competitive Intelligence.

I'll keep writing blogs in the next couple of weeks from the sessions and things I learned. We Tweeted as you can see in the right hand column on this CI Ning and under Twitter you can look under #SCIP09. There was also a live SCIP 09 forum, basically "Tweets."

I also took a bunch of pictures during the awards breakfast, which I will share once I get back to Colorado to my PC w/Photoshop!

But for now I want to recognize our winners:

Craig Fleisher: Meritorious

Tim Kindler: Fellow
Rainer Michaeli: Fellow
Milena Motta: Fellow

Steve Schulz: Catalyst
Yoshio Sugasawa: Catalyst
Donna Hawryliw: Catalyst
Kelsey Hare: Catalyst

There was a new award this year and a gentleman from China won from all his hard work in getting CI recognized in China...and on the next blog I'll remember his name.