Recently I attended the EAEF conference in Athens, actually I am on the board of this organisation. This year we were in Athens, which seemed like a good idea when we planned the event a year ago. Who would know that the global financial crisis would result in Greece experiencing such problems. I guess its a lot like our EA work, people are going along fine and suddenly things change and its difficult to cope. People were warning against going to Greece, it would be difficult, the country is broke and it may be dangerous. This too reminds me of EA work where rumour persists about someone and why we shouldn't bother. It turned out that Greece was lovely, the people were just lovely and life was going on despite the turmoil in the country. We should never pre judge a situation.
The conference was very positive and EA is growing in experience across Europe, this year representatives from Latvia attended and I hope we can see them again. The sessions were varied and engaging, with technology playing a major role through tweeting, LinkedIn and webinars.
If you have not been to an EAEF conference then you should, its great fun, the social events are always fantastic and the interactions with more than 20 nations interested in EA work is inspiring.
I did a session on the methodological flaws in the calculation of ROI, it was quite a debate, stimulating and fun.
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