After a Red Hot night out with the Chilli Peppers, the 70,000+ Dreamforce attendees were still up bright and early for a value-packed day. You can get a real sense of the party in Civic Center Plaza here at the Flickr page, and there's lots of You Tube footage too, like this one of my favourite "Under The Bridge".
With the reaction to yesterday still sinking in - brilliantly summed up in this article at the Sydney Morning Herald, delegates head in to day for a series of drill-down keynotes on the various product announcements of yesterday.
But if anything has emerged from this conference even at this distance, watching it from Sydney, - besides the overall message that "Business is Social" - it is #Leadership. Not only yesterday's interview with Sir Richard Branson - now up on You Tube by the way - but also the Day 2 interview which Marc Benioff hosted with General Colin Powell and GE CEO Jeff Immelt. The video of this too will be up soon, but here are some choice tweets from the afternoon's learnings:
RT @knowledgebishop: If you treat people with respect and honor, you will have a high performing organization. - Colin Powell #df12 #lea ...
— Sean Bawden (@SeanBawden) September 21, 2012
"Any time you can align innovation, commerce and a social need, good things happen fast" - @jeffimmelt #df12
— Becka D (@sfdc_nerd) September 21, 2012
@jeffimmelt: Always work on what's important, it is amazing how much time you spend on stupid stuff. #DF12
— Charlie Isaacs (@charlieisaacs) September 21, 2012
Immelt: Openness is key to surviving in the new age. Authenticity is second. Unity is third (team players) #df12
— Mark Fidelman (@markfidelman) September 21, 2012
Fascinating views on life, economics, jobs, energy being expressed by Jeff Immelt and Colin Powell in conversation with @benioff #DF12
— JP Rangaswami (@jobsworth) September 21, 2012
Great statements by @jeffimmelt #DF12 Government doesn't create jobs, it uses infrastructure & policy to create the correct environment
— Ryan F Casey (@printspotting) September 21, 2012