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Just when you thought all the great local conferences were done for this year, suddenly you realize that the Dog Food Conference is coming up on November 8-9, 2012 at the Columbus Microsoft Office.  Dogfooding is all about using the very tools that you produce, and this year Microsoft will show once again how they make use of many of the products that they sale to us. Whether it be Windows 8, SharePoint (my favorite) or the Cloud, the Dog Food Conference this year will showcase many of them with over 40 topics presented over 2 days by community IT professionals.

Registration will open soon, but until then here are some useful links you’ll want to use:

• Topic Submission Link – use the Suggestions button to submit a topic suggestion
• Call for Speakers – use the Submit process to submit a talk for this year’s conference
• The main website will be updated soon.

Based on previous articles in this series, it’s clear to me now that Hollywood has all the answers we need to guide our professional lives. : ) From consulting skills to self-promotion tips, movies provide more wisdom about our day-to-day lives than a box of chocolates. And for guidance on career planning, we don’t have to look any further than the digital drama known as The Matrix. Here are a few rules we can learn from the saga of these hackers-turned-heroes. But remember, as we all know, some of these rules can be bent… others can be broken.