London?

London.

London?

TRU London 2, to be exact.  It has been 10 years since I last visited my favorite city in the world, London.  Much has changed (maybe more with me than with The Big Smoke).  I can't wait.

This dream of mine, I wrote about it in December: my prediction of, and quest for, more hand-to-hand networking with colleagues from around the world in the article Social Networking and Global Flesh Pressing in 2010.

And now, after some serious blessings from the schedule fairy, I am going to London to repay a gesture by my friend, Bill Boorman, who came to speak at our TalentNet Live conference in Dallas last September.  I will participate in a truly global networking event thanks to some help from Bill, Geoff Webb, and my favorite ATS, Bullhorn.

TRU London 2 will take place on February 17th, 18th, and 19th, 2010, in, you guessed it, London.  TRU stands for The Recruiting Unconference.  An unconference is an event that has no fixed structure and only two rules, no power point and no presentations.  TRU London had its inaugural run on November 19, 2009 in Canary Warf, London.  TRU London 2 will be held in the HQ of Twitter Job Search in Soho.

I will be helping to lead tracks on technology, branding, and more.  I will also be hosting a special edition of the TalentNet Live #TNL Recruiter chat on Twitter on Wed., Feb. 17th, and Tweeting from that hashtag throughout the event. 

Thanks to the TRU Crew for inviting me to be a part of such a great event.  I am also scheduled to lead tracks at TRU USA April 19-20th, 2010, in Madison, WI, with my partner in crime (business) Jeff Lipschultz. 

Wow.  I just confirmed that I am going to London next week!  I need to tell someone.  "Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!"

See you on the other side.  Cheers, CF