For the most part, I believe our coverage of this year’s IPCPR Convention & Trade Show speaks for itself, on paper. There was more live coverage than ever, an added video component for the vast majority of the booths we visited, a reduced amount of typos and most notably, a substantially increased amount of coverage in the most basic of terms. Despite these achievements, there was more internal frustration than I ever recall in our relatively short history covering the trade show; and there was definitely some fierce frustration with manufacturers and to a much lesser extent, our readers. I remember remarking in the cab ride to the hotel after landing in New Orleans that it hadn’t felt like the spectacle that is IPCPR had arrived. This, despite weeks full of excessive amounts of posts, more emails to manufacturers than any reasonable person would ever send, weekly staff meetings regarding the show and months of dialogue amongst our staff regarding how to better organize our coverage of the show. While there may have been a steady stream of posts once the show opened, the level of disorganization on the backend was beyond what we normally deal with at halfwheel. Despite ...
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