Were you at the Home and Cottage Expo this weekend? Did you come and say hi? It was great to meet you too! I had a fantastic weekend sitting in the HICK Tech booth at the Home and Cottage Expo's Tech Expo. I got to meet all kinds of really neat people and got asked a whole whack of very interesting questions. (It looks like HICK Tech 2008 will have an entire Food & Agriculture Content Stream!)
The most common question of the event:
I live in the country. Can you get me high speed Internet access?
(If you're an ISP that can do this, you DEFINITELY want to be part of HICK Tech.)
The other question that came up twice during the weekend was a comment on BusinessVision, a point of sale commerce solution for retail (and on-line retail) stores. On Saturday I casually told two women (who I think do farm equipment retail) to give me their contact information and I'd put my ear to the ground for them. Then on the SECOND day when ANOTHER group of people asked me the very same question about the very same product I knew it was too weird to be true! Are you using BusinessVision within the Grey/Bruce region? Drop me an email. It sounds like there ought to be a local "BusinessVision user group" to solve some of the common problems that I heard about this weekend.
And that's what HICK Tech is all about: a technology-using community coming together to talk about problems and to share experiences and answers.
I look forward to seeing you at HICK Tech!
