Ben McConnell, and a bunch of us from the AMA HotTopic Blog Seminar are in Seattle this Friday, Dec. 17. If you live in that
great city (or the surrounding area), let's get together
that night at 5:30 p.m. for a friendly and highly informal
"marketing wonk" dinner.

Joining us will be Seattle SuperSonics VP Pete Winemiller,
Starbucks' customer care wizard (and BrandAutopsy examiner)
Paul Williams, and Tracy Stevens, group manager of customer
experience at Intuit.

We'll meet at Seattle's Westlake Center, in the food court
(on the third floor). It's Dutch treat, and the shopping
center has lots of inexpensive (but still good) food
choices.

If you can join us, Ben and all of us with the AMA seminar, would love to see you there. If you RSVP, he'll include your name on our blog as part of the expected party. (And link to your blog, too.) Or, you can just show up. If you get lost or need info, Ben's cell
number is (312) 415-0077.

[UPDATE] The dinner was a blast. There were almost a dozen of us there, including Toby Bloomberg, Pete, Paul Williams, Todd Smart, Deb Franke from Emerson, Clara from the AMA and a few other fine folks. I really appreicate Ben putting the dinner thing together

Dana, Do you know another Todd Smart?...or were you just thinking good things about me when posting the update and popped my name in inadvertently?