Here’s my wish list: Fix the membership problem. One voter, one vote. That’s what we want. The current hack of requiring an updated profile is just that, a hack. Fixing this, making sure that elections are solid and that members have one permanent PASS identity leads to all kinds of good things. Skip the speaker […]
Read more "Four Big Things PASS Could Do Next Year"Notes: We sent out a final you haven’t paid for lunch reminder on Wed, asked for a reply if they were planning to bring their own. 20 or so are, so far. We don’t mind that they do of course, but it’s really valuable information because it’s another block of attendees we can confirm (or […]
Read more "SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 47"Registration count after some cancellations now at 577, way above my goal of 500. We’ve decided not to spend on LinkedIn this week, our numbers are good and we’re not thinking it would drive a lot. Tough call. I’d like to find out, but agree it’s money we can spend elsewhere. Sent the final message […]
Read more "SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 46"First, a reminder/disclaimer that I am serving on the PASS NomCom this year. The four candidates in the election are all qualified, I have no debate with that. I’ve waited until the slate was posted to make any public comment about the election. None of my comments here are based on anything I heard or […]
Read more "Why I’m Only Casting One Vote This Year in the PASS Election"I’ve wanted to do this for a while, decided to make the time commitment and see what happens. See the first post about it at http://passwatch.org/.
Read more "Launching PASSWatch"It’s Saturday a week out and I’m trying to finish up messages for the week. A lot to send this week. Monday messages to the registered and not-registered list, one more lunch reminder, three sponsor email blasts, a big Friday reminder with lots of notes, and a Saturday morning “don’t forget and it’s ok to […]
Read more "SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 45"Ever since SQLSaturday #1 our venue has been Seminole State College (Seminole Community College back then), provided graciously and perhaps more importantly, at no charge. Finding a venue is a big deal when it comes to planning an event and finding one that’s free, that’s harder! Putting a bunch of IT people on their campus […]
Read more "The Student To IT Pro Seminar We’re Doing at SQLSaturday Orlando"More notes: Registration at 520. Not as big a bump this week as we expected, probably due to the message going out to the unregistered list Tuesday late afternoon, but equally possibly that we’re reached the ones that plan to go. I’m tempted to email again this week, but I think that’s too much. We’ll […]
Read more "SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 44"A friend recently asked me about my involvement with PASS, and that lead to the two questions in the title. Why do I support PASS? Why do I criticize PASS? And there is one more that goes with it, do I balance criticism with praise? Interesting stuff. First, for those who don’t know me, a […]
Read more "Why I Support PASS & Why I Criticize PASS"I’ve got most of the messages up through Sep 27th drafted. Still need to tweak a couple, but close to done. Two messages going out tomorrow, one to the registered list and one to the – wait, yes – the unregistered list, then one on Wed for a call for volunteers We’re at 502 after […]
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