CHASE is an annual conference/exhibition for charities and associations... http://www.conferencehouse.co.uk/CHASE/chase_home.aspx ...organised in London and has been running for some years now.
I was invited to participate in a round-table discussion on CRM based on SaaS (ie 'cloud computing') technology to represent CiviCRM at this event, and I thought it would be good to establish an exhibition stand to represent CiviCRM at this event. I invited other London-based CiviCRM service providers to collaborate on this event and five of us agreed to share the costs of the stand -
- Jamie Norvick of Compucorp
- Dave Melkman of Manta Ray Media
- Michael McAndrew of Third Sector Design
- Parvez Saleh of Veda Consulting
- and myself, Mark Tompsett of QualityTime Services
I should also acknowledge that CiviCRM user Seamless Relocation sponsored our stand by lending us the display boards and the furniture that we used, eg the tables and chairs.
Although the stand was only 6 sq m (3m wide x 2m deep) I have to say that we were fortunate to get a stand in a prominent position, but I don't know how much this helped in attracting the impressive number of visitors that we had during the two days of the event.
Comments
Well done guys, looks pretty good!!!
Great to see folks stepping up and evangelizing CiviCRM at key conferences like this!
I've added a blog category for Marketing and Promotion (good suggestion) and tagged this story :-)
I've removed the PS and adjusted the tag.
Really pleased to see this. I fed back to CHASE in 2009 that you guys should be there, providing a balance to all the comercial suppliers. Well done I hope it proves worthwhile.