Coming to you live from the Palazzo in Las Vegas... Day one is now in the books. Registration, networking and Rock Band were the orders of the day.

Telligent is a managed partner for the Microsoft High Tech Industry Segment. This is one of the largest sales organizations within Microsoft. The focus of today was to meet with all of the Microsoft Sales reps that service the High Tech industry (~125 in attendance). We were one of 8 partners to be showcased today. Each servicing their own category.

After watching Bill Gates final keynote speech it was on the Rock Band rock off. For those of you that don't know Rock Band think Guitar Hero with drums and karaoke. We were to recruit members from the Microsoft to join our band and me and 3 Microsoftees made it to the finals. We put up the highest score of the night in the finals but ultimately lost the title (and the custom Zune prizes) to a team of seasoned Rock Band veterans. It was still a lot of fun though!

Tomorrow will be more networking with the Microsoft teams and then on to the CES expo hall as well as a meeting with Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb of the Xbox team.

So far the conference has gotten off to a good start. Below is a pic of our "band" that's me with the glasses on lead guitar :P.

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