Some folks are skiddish about signing up for anything. If you could do a 'quick and easy' kind of a signup, not requiring anything if they insist, but requesting information.
Also, give away businss cards whether they sign up or not with the logo, and how to sign up for the mailing list, and the web address. Possibly a few key works to catch the eye, like 'free', 'install fests', 'classes', 'email lists', 'open source', etc. listed on the cards as well. ... Just a thought. ><> ... Jack On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > > Members, > > My action item in advance of the LinuxFest September 19, 2009 is to set > up a Customer Relationship Management system as a sign up sheet. Our > event in June did not record members and visitors; by extension we did > not follow up with those visitors. Given that NLUG is a _computer_ > group, it seemed to me to be rather silly to ask people to _write_ their > names and email addresses on a piece of paper! How 20th century. > > NLUG has for years captured attendance information expressly for voting > eligibility purposes. My intent is to build on those efforts; not so > much from a historical perspective but as a continuing project. > > REST ASSURED, NO EMAIL OR NAME INFORMATION SHALL BE USED FOR PURPOSES > OTHER THAN NLUG ACTIVITIES. Such activities do not include fund raising > for any ________. > > Comments? > > Howard White > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
