No turning back now

Dis­claimer: Cen­Pho­Camp is not affil­i­ated with Cronkite School or Ari­zona State Uni­ver­sity in any way. We are grate­ful to have the use of their world-class facil­i­ties for our event.

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 [↩]