Greetings from Bbaltimore

I'm here in Baltimore. I'm so psyched that there are more than 1437 people registered for our 7th annual Blackboard Users Conference.

This evening we kicked off the conference with a meeting of the Product Advisory Board, followed by a reception for them. We followed that up with another reception for all of the Blackboard Partners who are exhibiting this week. Afterwards we had our conference kickoff staff meeting and it isn't even 11:00 pm yet.

Tomorrow morning starts early - 7:30 am staff meeting = cruel. But I guess its worth it since we'll be hearing Cal Ripken Jr., the Ironman himself, give the opening keynote.

Before I sign off, I wanted to let you know that we're going to use this Bblog to share stories from Users Conference. You'll be hearing from several different Blackboarders with their own tales from the conference. We want to hear from you, feel free to post your comments.

Gotta go. My roommate, Jessica Finnefrock (Product Director of Blackboard Academic Suite) is telling me to turn out the light. Nos Da. (that's goodnight in Welsh).