After telling Ami what a masterful job Paul did and what incredible hosts Josh Kahn and the other folks from Accenture and Best Buy were, I recommended that Ami make the Atlanta Unconference longer to provide more time for networking. The Minneapolis attendees were very happy with their experience but one of the consistent pieces of feedback was that they wanted more and specifically more time to meet each other and talk informally with the presenters.

Ami and I then talked about the September conference. Ami told me that for Atlanta he plans to have a number of breakout sessions throughout the day so that the group sizes will be smaller, which will facilitate better networking amongst recruiters with like interests. We talked about the possibility of me flying down to be one of the presenters and I enthusiastically signed up to be one of the keynotes. I'll be talking about how recruiters can and should use social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. I've spoken at conferences about the same topic a number of times, including at the Minneapolis Unconference, but I am far from being tired of it as the best practices keep changing and the enthusiasm for the topic only seems to increase. It is also fun to poke fun at what some of our more exhibitionist Millennials do on-line and how Gen X and Baby Boomer tut tut that behavior yet end up admitting to themselves that they would have done exactly the same things when they were in college if there was an Internet and cell phones with cameras in them.

Ami is one of those recruiting blogosphere characters with tremendous passion and smarts. He's going to do a great job in Atlanta and I'm thrilled to be a part of it and to again have an opportunity to work with John Sumser of Recruiting.com and Interbiznet, one of the driving forces behind this great series of free, informal, recruiting conferences.