Working Nine to Five (or Eight to Midnight...)

I guess I should apologize for the lag in blog updates recently. Life has been CrAzY! And by crazy, I mean busy.

As most of you know, I work for a project management software company called AtTask as a Content Marketing Specialist. (Which put more simply means that I do copy writing and copy editing - I contribute to the company blog, write case studies, do interviews, edit all the marketing content, write and edit our website content, participate in a podcast called TalkingWork, produce a bi-monthly newsletter, etc.) So, for the last few months, my team at work has been working some super long hours (I once worked from 8am to 10pm) trying to put together our annual User Conference called AtTask WorkOut 2011 | Work Management Summit. This was a four day event that took place in Salt Lake City, UT just this week (February 7-11) at the Grand America Hotel. The conference consisted of daily Keynote presentations, breakout sessions, education courses, meals, a carnival/party, the launch of the new version of our software product, and a sneak peak at where we plan to take the software from here.

We had about 300 people from all over the world in attendance, (all clients or prospects) not including close to 200 AtTask employees and numerous members of the press.

Want to know what I did to contribute to the conference? Well, I'll show you.

 I was in charge of the new product "Launch Moment". I was tasked with finding someone who could build that red launch button prop custom for us, in one week. As you can see, I pulled it off. I was also in charge of arranging sound effects for this machine. They also turned out awesome (and I taught myself how to use garage band in less than 2 hours)

I also had the opportunity to entertain members of the press and some well-known business analysts.

And most importantly, I played a large part in one of the Keynote presentations. That's right, the podcast that I do (TalkingWork) did a live show for an hour and a half on Wednesday morning... in front of about 300 people (and another 200ish who watched the live stream on the web). I also solved a rubiks cube in front of all those people. No big deal. It was a ton of fun! And as soon as I get the professional cut and edited video, I'm sure I will post it up so anybody who is interested can watch it.

Because I was a presenter at the conference, AtTask put me up in the Grand America Hotel for two nights. The Grand America is the only 5 diamond hotel in SLC and it was built in 2001/2002 for when the olympics came to SLC. It really is a classy and luxurious hotel.

This is the room that I stayed in. Pretty neat, eh?

This is the view from my hotel window.

And you best believe I made good use of that fantastic bath tub! Working 13-14 hour days in heels is MURDER on your feet... AND your sleep schedule. Suffice it to say, I'm exhausted. Luckily after Thursday was over my boss looked at me and said, "See ya Monday." So I stayed in bed until 10:30 on Friday. 

Worth. It.