Who Returns Your email

One of my missions at SXSW is to connect with people that I have met online that I would like to meet in person, and to meet and interact with people that I have not met but want to. I have been pretty anti-social (aside from blogging) for the last few years, but now that it is getting near time for Kloudshare to launch I want to begin to talk to people about what we are up to and get feedback.

I probably have a slight advantage in reaching out to people than some others from having blogged for a while, but not much. In any case, the range of experiences one has in getting people to respond to you is interesting. There are some people who have been relatively easy to interact with and others who have been really tough. With some, you have empathy for what must be a really overwhelming influx of random communication, and for others (without naming names) you really get the sense that they are self absorbed a** holes.

As with everything in life, its all on a spectrum. I remember when I was running ClickRadio, I could get anyone on the phone -- the pinacle of which was having business conversations with Prince (at the time known as "The Artist"), and having dinner with Bill Clinton (in that order).

Ten years later, my reach is considerably smaller. At that time it was certainly harder to get me on the phone than it is today (though not that hard). Of course today there are many more random inbound channels than there were in 2000 making the management of the inbound much harder. In any case there's not really much of a point to this other than that it is really interesting to note where you are in the social order of the universe. Having been at both ends of the spectrum, and at various points in between over the years, I can appreciate all of the related challenges.