I've been contemplating the fact that we are planning on collecting business cards at VON, and I think this raises an interesting question: How does TAUG handle the relationship between the user group, and the business opportunities which stem from our community work?
The fact is that as a business man, I would love to have a list of potential clients, but as someone who represents TAUG, I want to be ethical in how I use information that properly belongs to the group. So I'm going to look at this from the perspective of someone visiting our booth, and surmise that some of them would want to make contact with asterisk-related businesses, and others are only interested in the group, and might in fact be angered by getting sales calls. Perhaps we need two jars, one for the draw (which is TAUG-sponsored, and will not trigger a sales call), and another for people interested in receiving calls from the business folks among us (which will have nothing to do with any contest). Any cards that make it into the biz jar can be scanned. We can then email that info to any member of the list who emails TAUG and asks for it (within, say 60 days of VON, after which I think the info should be considered stale). I'm just brainstorming here. Ideas welcome. Jim. -- Jim Van Meggelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2177 "A child is the ultimate startup, and I have three. This makes me rich." Guy Kawasaki -- -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.1/291 - Release Date: 24/03/2006
