Improvement Ideas

Come join us! Reg­is­ter now and beat the crowds.

Great ideas for next time so far.

–Shorter time frame (4 hours)
–Mod­er­a­tors for round­table dis­cus­sions
–Have food and reg­is­tra­tion table in OWN room
–Keep one room open for impromptu pre­sen­ta­tions
–Keep the pre­sen­ters fresh
–Nobody presents more than once

There’s more, but those really stood out. Keep it up!

CenPhoCamp Description

The time is get­ting near. Here’s a one-page descrip­tion for to email or print. Down­load here.

Event: Cen­Pho­Camp

Loca­tion: Cronkite School
555 N. Cen­tral Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85004

Date/Time: Jan­u­ary 23, 1:30 to 8pm

Web: http://cenphocamp.com

Con­tact: tyler@tdhurst.com

Cen­Pho­Camp is an uncon­fer­ence designed to bring small, local orga­ni­za­tions together with the cus­tomers they serve. Unlike a typ­i­cal sem­i­nar, par­tic­i­pants are encour­aged to ask ques­tions, to leave ses­sions they don’t think are help­ful and even con­tribute to the learn­ing as they see fit.

Devel­oped as a series of tracks, each hour-long pre­sen­ta­tion adheres to one of the fol­low­ing themes: Begin­ner, where those new to mar­ket­ing can learn about basic approaches, Tech­nol­ogy, offer­ing instruc­tions on the lat­est web apps and Com­mu­nity, designed to help busi­nesses enable their cus­tomers to be their best adver­tis­ers. A Round­table dis­cus­sion led by indus­try experts com­pletes each hour’s offerings.

Cen­Pho­Camp, held free of charge, is being run by vol­un­teers only. Rent for the Cronkite facil­ity is being paid by gen­er­ous ses­sion and room spon­sors (ses­sion spon­sor­ships still avail­able for $20).

Speak­ers include Designer Nina Miller of ASU, Inno­va­tors Derek Neigh­bors and Chris Con­rey of Gang­plank, Chan­nel 12 News Anchor Brahm Resnik, Free­lance jour­nal­ist Nick Mar­tin, Light Rail blog­gers Nick Bas­t­ian and Tony Arranagaand Small Busi­ness Man­ager Bran­don Stout.

All of these pro­fes­sion­als will share solu­tions that have worked for them, instead of the­o­ries they’d like to see happen.

Admis­sion is com­pletely free, although we ask that par­tic­i­pants bring food or drink. Please sign up here: http://www.cenphocamp.com/registration-is-now-open/

Registration is now open

Oh, it’s time. Time for you to let us know you’re com­ing. Time for you to let us know what you’re bringing.

In an effort to keep this event free, we’re ask­ing that each attendee bring food (last name A-G) or drink (H-Z). Think snack-type stuff (enough to feed 5–6 peo­ple), as we’re going to be there all after­noon. Any left­overs will be donated to Gang­plank or Frac­tal, or you can take it home. Please be con­scious that this is a school, and we MUST clean up every­thing we bring in. Thanks in advance for your help with this.

So…sign up below. Let us know who you are. Tell your friends. The fun begins at 1:30pm.

Agenda will be avail­able by Jan­u­ary 11.

Announcing CenPhoCamp

You’ve heard of social media. You’ve prob­a­bly heard of Pod­Cam­pAZ. You prob­a­bly don’t need much more help.

But PLENTY of small, local busi­nesses do need help. They need assis­tance con­nect­ing their cus­tomers, they need a kick start on inter­net mar­ket­ing and they need to be reminded that the inter­net isn’t a place, it’s a chan­nel they can use to solve cus­tomer problems.

This is where Cen­Pho­Camp comes in. Designed to be a 101-type overview of sell­ing, com­mu­ni­ca­tion and mar­ket­ing tech­niques, it will be a mix of pan­els and pre­sen­ters all look­ing to show busi­nesses with­out tons of resources how to bet­ter mar­ket them­selves using low– or no-cost techniques.

It’s a chance for those in the know to bring those that don’t into the fold. It’s an oppor­tu­nity for those who already know what they’re doing to learn from oth­ers. It’s here so the many pas­sion­ate, local groups don’t over­lap events, make the same mis­takes or waste time on meth­ods that don’t work.

Cen­Pho­Camp will be held Jan­u­ary 23 from 2 to 8pm at the Cronkite build­ing on the down­town Phoenix cam­pus. We’re look­ing for speak­ers, vol­un­teers, speak­ers, pan­elists and spon­sors to help out. Spon­sor­ships will be avail­able per room or per speaker, or can help sub­si­dize the cost of the after party.¹

Want to help out? Leave a com­ment. Fol­low us on Twit­ter. Tell oth­ers that you know.

1. Ten­ta­tively to be held at Turf [↩]