Will we see you at this Fridays' CSI Elevator Cafe? Looks like being a really interesting one, with a good mix of practice presentations and information sessions -- all still just five minutes each. Same time and place as usual -- the Canterbury Innovation Incubator (200 Armagh St), Friday July 4, from 5pm, with the BBQ to follow (BYO).
The line-up for this month's cafe: Peter Gallagher, from Gallagher Business Systems, is going to be asking for feedback on which of his three short elevator statements gets the best message across about his new mid-range Financial and Distribution Information System. (Be gentle, but don't hold back!) Julian Stone will be introducing a new Web-based workflow and job�management software product called ProWorkflow (www.proworkflow.com), designed for small-medium�businesses. Jill Taiaroa, from the CDC, will give us a quick overview of mentoring in the IT industry and how it can be really helpful. Ross Brown from Unify, will be tell us about Software House, a new building in Technology Park. And if you can't get along to the Cafe and BBQ, you might want to check out this interesting article: Demonstration Post-Mortem: Why Vendors Lose Deals -by Steve McVey In competing for client dollars, one failing makes demonstrations deadly for large and small vendors alike: lack of preparation. The most often asked question following a bad demo is why: Why didn't the vendor understand our business scenarios? Why did they ask us questions they should've asked weeks ago during their "preparation?" Why was the presenter as lost as we were? Why did we have to sit here for eight hours and waste our time? Full Coverage: http://www.technologyevaluation.com/va.asp?id=40.2003.07.02.1698 (TechEval has a free registration requirement, but their ezine usually has something worth following up :-) Cheers, Vicki Hyde on behalf of Canterbury Software Inc. ====================================================== SPIS Ltd, Box 19-760, Christchurch, NZ http://.spis.co.nz * FREE TurboNote+ sticky note trial: http://TurboNote.com --> via Canterbury Software email forum: Success through Connections Email your messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave or rejoin the list: http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/forum.htm
