Have a magical day !

I've reached a new career milestone - last week I presented at the AICPA Not for Profit conference at Disneyland in Southern California and this week I'm spending time at both the Sleeter next Generation Accounting Technology conference and the AICPA controllers workshop at Disneyworld in Orlando Florida.

Across all three conferences, I'm talking to more than 1,000 finance and accounting professionals about cloud computing and how it applies to them. At Sleeter, we had a whole day dedicated to showing accountants how to move their practices on-line.

It's an easy story to tell - people are getting more and more comfortable with their use of cloud computing as consumers, so it is relatively easy for them to make the leap for how the same things they like about the consumer cloud should apply to their business applications. I got great feedback and questions from each of the presentations - and more and more I am finding that people who are already doing cloud computing are jumping in to answer their peers questions about security, productivity and ROI.

Disneyland on Thursday, Disneyworld the following Monday. Plus the remnants of a hurricane are rolling into Orlando today - a great backdrop for talking about "cloud computing."