RE: MIDRANGE-L Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1857

        
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Gerald Kern wrote: Don, I agree with your concern
but the goal here is to get people to stay for the closing event. So how
do we accomodate both your idea and the goal to get people to stay? 

Jerry:  As you know COMMON has tried a multitude of things to get people
to come to various sessions.  Way back in the early 90s we had trouble
getting people to come to the opening session. Bob LaBont the IBM VP of
Sales had some important things he really wanted COMMON members to hear.
I suggested a fun giveaway...like an AS/400!  IBM's Bill Zeitler gave us
two new small AS/400s to give away --- you had to be there to win!  It
worked!  The room was packed and we 400 in an overflow room!  The two
people's names we drew were in the the overflow room!!  It wasn't until
we had drawn the third name did someone in the back yell out..."Anne,
the other two are in the overflow room!!"  Thankfully, IBM was gracious
enough to give us THREE AS/400s!! Just a little history on COMMON/IBM
giveaways.  

Don, I have to disagree with you (not that I ever had before!!) There is
absolutely nothing wrong with requiring people to be present to win.  It
all depends on:  Why are you having the drawing? What do you want to
accomplish by it? Is the drawing relevant to the goals of the
organization? The goals of the session?


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