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I missed all of the Sunday events at last year's IABC World Conference in Toronto due to bad travel karma. But this year I got to partake in some of the activities. Here are a few of my thoughts...

• I attended the "Open Space: Communicate Now" breakout put on by Jeremy Schultz, Christopher Swanson, Bryan Person and Linda Johannesson. What I enjoyed about this session was that the attendees determined the topics and then broke out into smaller groups. And there were three rounds of these breakouts. For example, I attended one on global communication and there were corporate communication representatives from Bose, Pfizer and Chevron. (Not bad company to keep.) Last year was the first year they orchestrated a session like this and I expect it to only get better and better. 
  
• Unfortunately I had to miss the keynote Jonah Lehrer. I'm not typically a big keynote kind of a guy but I was following people's thoughts on Twitter. And it sure sounded like he blew some people's minds with his ideas on decision-making and the value of day dreaming. 
  
• IABC put on a great welcome reception in the evening that (as attendees know) had to moved indoors. The reception provided a great chance to reconnect with people I had seen at previous world conference, plus meet new faces who I'd only interacted with online. 
  
• Cindy Crescenzo and I will be pitching a killer session for the 2012 show in Chicago. Watch out!
  
• For those that would like to see all of the pictures Tweeted so far, check out this Montabe gallery. The service is a great way to collect all of the photos shared on Twitter using #iabc11 (or any hashtag for that matter). 

As I've mentioned in previous posts, this is my third straight year attending this annual event. It's the quality of attendees that make it a must-attend event for employee communication pros. 

What was your favorite part of yesterday's events?