Now that I’ve lured you in…Next month is Dell World and a friend of mine over at Cisco, Scott Hanson (@CiscoServerGeek), is throwing a vBBQ for all the techies coming into town. This will be a great way for you to hang out with other IT professionals outside of the conference setting and get to know each other. You can RSVP here!

This year in order to raise awareness of the EMC Elect program, the EMC Elect team will be sponsoring the event and buying the BBQ for the first 50 attendees. For those of you not aware of the program, this is EMC’s influencer and advocacy program. This is the programs 3^rd year (my first to manage) and it is similar to vExpert program. We have some great ideas for the program this year to set it apart, so I would encourage you to apply now if you have generated any community content around EMC solutions.

As a an added bonus, a buddy over at Spiceworks, Peter Tsai (@Supertsai), has also agreed to sponsor the event and will be bringing the beer! Spiceworks is the professional network 6 million IT professionals use to connect with one another and over 3,000 technology brands.

So if you are going to be in town, come hang out! I mean, who doesn’t like free BBQ and beer 🙂 .