Jim Van Meggelen wrote:
Leif and I have some books to give away as well. Not sure how we determine
who gets a copy.
O'Reilly promised some swag as well, but i haven't seen anything yet . . .
Neat!
A business card draw is the most common way to give stuff out at shows.
I suspect this is because it's the easiest.
Maybe 15 mins before close of show each day, hold a "must be present to win"
draw. It gets you lots of contact names, and holding the draw this way
helps gauge the interest level.
Use the contact names for a one-time mailing from all our local VOIP
businesses.
(I imagine there are mailing list companies that will do this for you,
assuming that
our voip providing members would jointly fund the mailing). People know
they are getting
in for this when they go in business-card draws, so there's no
ethical/privacy issues
if you use a reputable mailing list to do the mailing "blind" from the
businesses.
Otherwise do the draws all at the end, but then you may have to pay for
mailing costs :-(
Of course there are always more creative ways, like a contest, but then
you need
somebody to judge it. Something like "Most creative new way to apply
Asterisk".
Results (winners and runners up) get posted to the mailing list (names
and ideas, but
not emails:-)) along with the winners getting copy of the book.
I'm sure the more creative types can do better than this, it's just a
suggestion.
