January 2010 CenPhoCamp speakers

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.

Ten­ta­tive Octo­ber 2010 schedule

Jan­u­ary 2010 Schedule

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!

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!

Community Track

Build­ing a suc­cess­ful busi­ness isn’t just about prof­its. It’s not just about sales.

It’s about com­mu­nity. It’s about solv­ing cus­tomer prob­lems and con­nect­ing them in order to do the same.

Cen­Pho­Camp has a track for just that. We’ll show you how large uni­ver­si­ties can improve busi­ness, how to repeat, non-local cus­tomers and how civic involve­ment can con­nect you to your com­mu­nity, and in turn, turn them into customers.

So show up. As with the Begin­ner Track and Tech­nol­ogy Track, each are designed to be mixed and matched. Apply what you learn from one in another, as the lessons are universal.

See you on Jan­u­ary 23.

So…why CenPhoCamp?

Yeah, another camp. Another meet­ing. Yet one more group plan­ning instead of doing.

There’s sim­ply so much ground to cover. Busi­nesses still don’t get it. They must be slowly intro­duced, not dragged kick­ing and screaming.

We must show them where they’re at, show them where they need to go and then, how to get there.

It’s impor­tant.

Looking for presenters

We’re look­ing for a few good speakers.

Each 60-minute slot¹ will be teach­ing ses­sions designed to com­ple­ment and improve the atten­dees’ exist­ing mar­ket­ing and sales efforts. There will be a learn­ing track, so if you’re a com­plete new­bie, fol­low that track in order to get the most from your time.

Speak­ers will be pre­sent­ing top­ics such as: “How busi­nesses can attract return sub­ur­ban cus­tomers” to “How to cre­ate and imple­ment a company-wide social media plan” and “How civic involve­ment can improve your com­mu­nity” to “No– and low-cost meth­ods for sales­men”. A series of more technology-oriented top­ics will also be addressed along its own track.

Three pre­sen­ta­tions will be sched­uled per hour, with a few speak­ers repeat­ing their ses­sions in an effort to cater to the begin­ning track.

In order to cover the widest vari­ety of top­ics, pre­sen­ta­tions will be deter­mined before­hand. If you have an idea or would like to present, please email us or leave a comment.

All speak­ers will have a pro­jec­tor and wire­less mic. Please bring your own lap­top,² a VGA con­nec­tor and/or USB drive. You will have inter­net access dur­ing your pre­sen­ta­tion. Pre­sen­ta­tions do NOT have to be Powerpoint/Keynote based, but we do sug­gest visual aids of some kind.

1. 45 for speak­ing, 15 for ques­tions [↩]
2. Let us know if you need to bor­row one [↩]