Tell everyone you know about CenPhoCamp!

Come join us! Reg­is­ter now and beat the crowds.

The sched­ule is set, the spon­sors are happy and the after party has been reserved.

Now it’s time to get every­one involved. Below, you’ll notice three four things: 1) the boil­er­plate copy that you can copy and paste to your blog, your Face­book page or wher­ever else you live online; 2) a Word copy of the offi­cial press release; 3) a PDF copy of the same release; 4) a text copy for you to give to your non-press friends. Please dis­trib­ute any or all of these to greater down­town Phoenix res­i­dents and busi­ness own­ers that you think might ben­e­fit from CenPhoCamp.

Boil­er­plate copy (just copy and paste, yo)
Cen­Pho­Camp exists to teach greater down­town Phoenix busi­nesses how to thrive in the new econ­omy. From Kirk Yuhnke of ABC15 to Jose Gon­za­lez and Bill Binder of Torch The­ater and Kevin Spi­del of Gan­nett Local to Jonathan Kres­saty of Rip­Styles and Betwext, we’ve gath­ered prac­ti­tion­ers, not dis­as­so­ci­ated experts, together for an after­noon or learn­ing and collaboration.

The event is free to anyone.

Please reg­is­ter at http://www.cenphocamp.com/register/

Cen­Pho­Camp will be held at the Cronkite School at the down­town Phoenix ASU campus.

555 N Cen­tral Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85004

Octo­ber 9, 2010
1–4:30pm (con­fer­ence at Cronkite)
5–7:30pm (hosted appe­tiz­ers at the District)

Down­load­able press releases
Word press release (right click)

PDF press release (right click)

Down­load­able friend invite
Text friend invite

Sponsorships

Spon­sor­ships are the back­bone of what make this event pos­si­ble. With­out them, we couldn’t rent out Cronkite, afford the tapes, name tags and other sup­plies and most impor­tantly, wouldn’t have grub to snack on at the after party. If you or your busi­ness would like to help us out, we have spon­sor­ship pack­ages avail­able for very cheap.

Ses­sion Spon­sor­ship ($25 — 12 avail­able)
These are are the indi­vid­ual ses­sions. Spon­sor­ships include a 15–30 ad read at the begin­ning of the pre­sen­ta­tion, the business’s logo on the pre­sen­ter slides and the busi­ness name and logo on the video of the pre­sen­ta­tion posted online post event. We have about six left.

Room Spon­sor­ship ($50 — 3 avail­able)
Each spon­sor gets to dec­o­rate their room how they see fit. There are a few restric­tions handed down from Cronkite (can’t affix any­thing to the walls, for exam­ple) but we’re happy to work with you to get the most out of it. You also get your logo and a writeup in a spe­cific post on the blog, as well as thanked by your orga­niz­ers in the begin­ning. These are sold out.

After-Party Spon­sor­ship (~$100 — 2 avail­able)
These busi­nesses buy us appe­tiz­ers at our venue of choice after the event. They are included in the pre­vi­ous writeup and we will work with the after-party venue to get sig­nage up if they so desire. They are con­sid­ered our title spon­sors and will get pref­er­en­tial place­ment on blogs and will be included in the RSS footer of every post. We’ll also thank them in the open­ing act.

Ses­sion spon­sors do have a say in what ses­sions they spon­sor, but their choices aren’t final. Every effort is made to ensure the spon­sors and the ses­sion mate­r­ial coin­cide with each other or that they don’t con­flict hor­ri­bly (like an alco­hol com­pany couldn’t spon­sor a col­lege pre­sen­ter, not that we have any alco­hol com­pa­nies as spon­sors, but you know what I mean).

As of Labor Day Week­end, ses­sion spon­sor­ships and one after-party spon­sor­ship is still available.

January 2010 room sponsors

Cen­Pho­Camp wouldn’t have been pos­si­ble with­out the gra­cious sup­port of the com­mu­nity. Every speaker, pan­elist and spon­sor have offered their time and/or money to allow us to rent the Cronkite school and pro­vide some food and drinks for atten­dees afterwards.

The fol­low­ing four com­pa­nies are spon­sor­ing each of the four rooms we will be using. Tony’s Light Rail Blog­ger will be in room 252, Kimber’s Verve Co will be tak­ing over room 202, Derek Neighbor’s Inte­grum will set up in room 444 and Jane’s Prac­ti­cal Art will set up in room 314.

Thanks to all of you for mak­ing this hap­pen and good luck.

Light Rail Blog­ger
Tony Arranaga blogs about the ligh­trail in Phoenix — and uses social media to help spread the word about his expe­ri­ence using alter­na­tive trans­porta­tion. Tony uses social media to not only pro­mote his blog but also to start a con­ver­sa­tion and get peo­ple think­ing about rid­ing their bike, shar­ing a ride, or using the light rail/bus to get around the Val­ley. Exactly how he starts this con­ver­sa­tion is what he’ll focus on dur­ing his pre­sen­ta­tion at Cen­Pho Camp.

Verve Co
Verve is a full-service Inter­net solu­tion provider. We have pro­vided a wide breadth of design, soft­ware and mar­ket­ing solu­tions for a vari­ety of busi­nesses all around the globe. Our skill set cov­ers a full-spectrum of key rel­e­vant Inter­net dis­ci­plines that allow us to cre­ate pow­er­ful solu­tions tar­get­ing mea­sur­able results. We under­stand both the tech­ni­cal and mar­ket­ing aspects of the Inter­net and are able to fuse the two together to cre­ate truly effec­tive solu­tions for busi­nesses just like yours.

Inte­grum
Inte­grum empha­sizes busi­ness value, speed to mar­ket and open com­mu­ni­ca­tion to build remark­able Ruby on Rails web appli­ca­tions. Inte­grum has worked with orga­ni­za­tions of all sizes, from star­tups to the enter­prise. They uti­lize Agile soft­ware devel­op­ment method­olo­gies and pow­er­ful tools to deliver your project on time, and on budget.

Prac­ti­cal Art
At prac­ti­cal art, every­thing is hand­made by more than 70 dif­fer­ent local Ari­zona arti­sans. In their large store­front on Cen­tral Avenue, north of Camel­back, they carry over 2,000 func­tional, usable wares in glass, ceramic, metal, wood, fibers, and more. Expect to find things like wood bowls and uten­sils made from local fallen trees; glass­ware and ceramic items in any use­ful shape you can imag­ine; scarves, blan­kets and other knit or woven fibers; clas­si­cally hand­crafted fur­ni­ture, jew­elry, soap, and paper. Just about any­thing use­ful for your every­day life that is hand­made in Ari­zona can be found at prac­ti­cal art!

prac­ti­cal art is also afford­able des­ti­na­tion for every­one: most of the items sell for less than $35. prac­ti­cal art is the per­fect place to find a trea­sured gift. prac­ti­cal art has been named “Best of Phoenix” by the New Times and “Best in the Val­ley” by Phoenix Mag­a­zine.

No turning back now

The rooms have been paid for.

Thanks to Phoenix Inno­va­tion Foun­da­tion (PIF) for their help with that.

The agenda has been set.

Thanks to Mark Dud­lik for mak­ing that pretty.

The ses­sions are ready to go.

Thanks to the ses­sion spon­sors for that.

In addi­tion to their dona­tions, Rhonda Ban­nard of Inspired Con­nec­tions and JoMarie Mac­Don­ald sent out infor­ma­tion to their dis­tri­b­u­tion lists (Rhonda sent it to 500 con­tacts alone). Nick Bas­t­ian wrote a great blog post on Raillife.com. CenPho.TV men­tioned it in their weekly vlog. Down­town Phoenix Jour­nal pub­lished a really fan­tas­tic story. Joan Koerber-Walker opened her net­work to us.

We thank you for that.

Jim McPher­son and Steve Weiss from Down­town Voices Coali­tion invited Yuri to present to their monthly Steer­ing Com­mit­tee Meet­ing as well as the Vision­ing Con­fer­ence. Jim also posted the event on the DVC web­site. Jeff Mori­arty men­tioned us at Social Media Club.

Thanks for that.

Izzy Video let us bor­row one of his cam­corders. Gang­plank lent us two coolers.

Thanks to you both.

Also, thanks to Don Cross­land and kon­tak­t­mag for get­ting me to care about down­town Phoenix in the first place.

Thanks to Katie Char­land for edit­ing the ses­sion descriptions.

Thanks to Dean Calla­han for trust­ing us not to tear up his building.

A HUGE thanks to all the speak­ers and pan­elists. They are the shin­ing stars of this event.

See you on Saturday!

Thanks to our room sponsors

Com­mu­nity events are never pos­si­ble with­out the sup­port of those they aim to serve. Thanks to the fol­low­ing four com­pa­nies, we had our room spon­sor­ships taken care of in less than a week. We and all the atten­dees are look­ing for­ward to see­ing what they’re going to do with their rooms.

Big kudos to our four room spon­sors. With­out Tony’s Light Rail Blog­ger in room 252, Kimber’s Verve Co tak­ing over room 202, Derek Neighbor’s Inte­grum slap­ping ban­ners up in room 444 and Jane’s Prac­ti­cal Art dec­o­rat­ing room 314, this event wouldn’t have been possible.

Show me the money!

Look on the right side­bar. Yep, right where it says donate.

If you’re a spon­sor or phil­an­thropic cit­i­zen, that’s the best way to get your hard-earned cash to the Phoenix Inno­va­tion Foun­da­tion (PIF), who is work­ing with us to han­dle the finan­cial com­plex­i­ties of CenPhoCamp.

Your money, while not tax deductible, will pay the $500 fee Cronkite is charg­ing us, while the rest will go to our after party. Spon­sors, please email Tyler a copy of your receipt so we can record it.

If you’d like to pay by check or cash, please email tyler@tdhurst.com and he’ll be able to help you out.

Thanks in advance for your support!

Looking for sponsors

Noth­ing hap­pens for free. Cen­Pho­Camp is no different.

To have use of all their equip­ment and inter­net access, the Cronkite School charges $500 for use of the facil­ity. An afford­able sum, but not one any of us can pay out of our own pocket.

That’s where local busi­nesses come in. Cen­Pho­Camp will be offer­ing three lev­els of spon­sor­ships: room, pre­sen­ter and after party.

Room spon­sor­ships will be $50 per room. Spon­sors will be able to dec­o­rate as they wish, which may include ban­ners, sales fly­ers or other such mate­ri­als. Every­thing must be free stand­ing. Room spon­sors are guar­an­teed a pre­sen­ter slot OR a chance to lead a panel ses­sion in the board room.¹ We esti­mate an aver­age of 20 peo­ple per hour will see your mate­ri­als, giv­ing you 240 eye­balls on your prod­uct, as well as the grat­i­tude of a faith­ful community.

Pre­sen­ter spon­sor­ships will be $20 per speaker.² Your com­pany logo will be placed on their pre­sen­ta­tion mate­ri­als and you may give a 30–60 sec­ond pitch before the pre­sen­ta­tion starts. If you’d like, we will help you write your pitch and can present it for you. The more pop­u­lar pre­sen­ta­tions will likely be seen by 100 peo­ple, giv­ing you 200 eye­balls and, again, the grat­i­tude of a faith­ful community.

After party spon­sor­ships are $10 and will go toward our bar/food bill at Turf.³ Your busi­ness will be thanked at the begin­ning of Cen­Pho­Camp, at the end and again at Turf dur­ing the fes­tiv­i­ties. Nearly every attendee will know that you helped bring Cen­Pho­Camp to fruition.

In addi­tion, all room spon­sors will receive their own blog post on CenPhoCamp.com, detail­ing what their busi­ness is about, what makes it unique and what it’s doing to pro­mote the community.

All pre­sen­ta­tion spon­sors will be men­tioned in a blog post thank­ing contributors.

All after party spon­sors will be listed in a blog post thank­ing supporters.

1. Depend­ing on topic [↩]
2. Those that speak twice will be spon­sored first [↩]
3. Again, ten­ta­tive [↩]