Before Worldwide Partner Conference 2011, I put up my Looking forward to meeting you and adding some more faces here at WPC11 post showing some samples of pictures I had captured with attendees in prior years at Worldwide Partner Conference and that that this year would be no different. Well, throughout WPC11, I had the pleasure to talk with, meet, and catch up with so many people from all around the world and, of course, managed to grab pictures with some of them too. As such, I thought I would share some of the pictures (click any picture for full size) from those connections here on the blog. Do you recognize any of these people? If not, maybe you can keep an eye out for them in future Worldwide Partner Conferences, or even take note of them and look them up for possible connections in the WPC Connect tool at next year’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto or online in the social media sphere:

Arlin Sorensen (@asorensen) of Heartland Technology Solutions	Bill Hole of The Hole Group (@TheHoleGroup)	Chris Miller of SoftwareONE
Davesh Aggarwal of Compusoft	Doug Fraser of CloudStrategies LLC	Charlie Ramirez of Team Venti and Petri Salonen(@DrSalonen) of TELLUS International, Inc
Bill Hersh of D&H Distributing	Dave Seibert of IT Innovators	Harry Brelsford of SMB Nation (@SMBNation)
Heather Davis of SoftwareONE	Kim Walker and Brenda Luper (@BLuper2) of Franklin Computer Services Group	Laura Thomas of Antares Technology Solutions, Inc.
Tiffany Ingargiola (@TiffanyWI) & the New Horizons crew	John Nicolau of VantagePoint Partners, Inc.	Philippe Moufflet of BostonCSE
Ric Opal of Peters & Associates	Sally Parks (@Sparks_Austin) of New Horizons	Tim Ziegner of Ziegner Technologies Inc
Jamison West (@jamisonwest) of Arterian and Dave Sobel (@djdaveet) of Evolve Technologies	Troy Rhodes of Altura Systems	Evonne Cash (@rukraz2) of Wipfli
Cliff Sweazey of Innovative Integration	Jeff Middleton of SBS Migration and Steven Banks of Banks Consulting Northwest Inc.	Jamison West of Arterian, Dave Seibert of IT Innovators, Arlin Sorensen of Heartland Technology Solutions, and Dave Sobel of Evolve Technologies
Scott Bekker (@ScottBekker) of Redmond Channel Partner	Bill Hersh and Beth Davis of D&H Distributing	The worldwide SMB PALs
John McGrath of Bell Techlogix, Inc.	Dux Raymond Sy (@MeetDux) of Innovative-e Inc.	Matt Makowicz of SMB Nation
Rich Gibbons (@richfrombechtle) of Bechtle, Guy Gregory (@GuyGregory) of The Final Step, Aki Antman (@akipekka) of Sulava, and Mary Jo Foley (@MaryJoFoley) of ZDNet	Guy Gregory (@GuyGregory) of The Final Step	Rich Gibbons (@richfrombechtle) of Bechtle
Dan Friedrich of Friedrich Klatt & Associates and Doc Dochtermann of Project Management Institute	Kevin Derman of Microsoft South Africa	Jeff Loucks of Winrox and John Krikke (@JohnKrikke) of Onward Computer Systems
Steve Hand of Know Technology, LLC	Charlie Ramirez of Team Venti

Thanks to all of you that took me up on my offer and connected with me during WPC11, including taking some photographs with me as well. I really do appreciate it and it was a pleasure to connect and to actually meet some of you face to face for the first time (even though we have communicated and connected through social media several times over the past few years).

I hope you enjoy the pictures as well and if you are going to be attending WPC 2012 next year, maybe start giving it a thought if you would be interested in connecting in person there and being part of my WPC 2012 picture collection that I will be posting at that time.

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Thank you and have a wonderful day,

Eric Ligman – Follow me on TWITTER, LinkedIn, and RSS and see “What I’m thinking”
Director, Worldwide Partner Experience
Microsoft Corporation
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