I am going to cheat and have a double post for both Ottawa and Toronto so I can be completely caught up and wrap up the tour and carry on with some other posts in my drafts folder.

First off - Ottawa.  I always like presenting in Ottawa - maybe it's because it's where I live and I'm not technically "on the road" when I deliver.  Maybe I'm better rested or the fact that I'm not coming off a plane. Last weeks session just seemed to work really well. Despite some conflicts of having an event the same day as the Government Technology conference in the capital of Canada, we still had a large number of people attend the event. Don't worry - I won't share the attendance data with the Feds in case you skipped out on G-Tech to see the event instead.

Like the other sessions, the audience was engaging and they had lots of questions. I did have to work the demos to get some additional audience participation, but the general feedback was that once expectations were set - it was the right level of technical content.  There is only so much depth you can have in a 1 hr session around Vista and a 45 minute session around the mobility platform.

One thing that I did want to mention was a thanks to some of the other "blue shirts" from the Ottawa office that came out to help with some Q and A… A good friend of mine - Pierre Roman (a Technical Account Manager) bravely stood up and helped field some "spill over" questions while I was busy answering the ones from the crowd around me. 

Onwards to Toronto. We wrapped up the tour in Toronto with a double header. We had two theatres running with myself in one and our "new guy" Damir in the other. It was a little different in format, since we normally have a venue that can accommodate the whole crowd into one theatre.  My crowd was a little more reserved and quiet then others in the previous cities. Once the technical content was underway and we progressed through some of the demos, things livened up. I did notice that there were substantially more questions around mobility and the new Mobile 5 enabled devices.

I'll leave you with a great big thanks for a great wrapping up of the TechNet Innovations tour  and a kickoff to the touring season.

As previously posted to the blog:
Here is the link to the post event landing page with resources, links, documentation and downloads as they related to the sessions. 
Here is the link to participate in the Discover TechNet quiz (Chance to win an original xBox)
Here is the link to nominate an IT Professional for the "TechNet Canada Innovation Award". (Chance to win a Media Centre PC, $500 cash and $500 charitable donation to the Children's Miracle Network in your local community).

As always - please feel free to post a comment to let us know how we're doing and what you'd like to see in the future.  I'm off to develop some great content for the Communications and Collaboration tour in the January timeframe.