You enter a large ballroom or conference venue, full of groups of people having interesting conversations. Many people you know, quite a few you do not. Do you expect to be part of every conversations from start to finish? Do you mill about seeing where you can drop in? Do you rely on people later to tell you what you heard?
@cogdog Full disclosure: After milling about I go back to the hotel room and fire up Twitter. Except for that one valuable time I sat in a rocking chair with Chuck Pearson and @Readywriting. #OpenEd16
I'm a dope; I wrote "@ lesserpearson" and you know what? That's not a thing. @ShorterPearson @cogdog @Readywriting

@Dan_Blick @cogdog @Readywriting for future reference: in another existence I was a tenured associate professor at the late, great Shorter College in Rome, Georgia

so "Shorter" has additional meaning