[FM Discuss] STC conference

[Janet Swisher]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:30 AM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> hey
>
> On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 22:45 -0500, Anne Gentle wrote:
>> Great discussion, all. Sorry that I'm a little late in responding. I'm
>> sitting here in a hotel room in Atlanta with Janet Swisher - we're
>> ready for our presentation about wikis, blogs, and online communities
>> for documentation -  featuring FLOSS Manuals, naturally)  - tomorrow
>> at the Society for Tech Comm annual conference. I even got an orange
>> blouse for the occasion. :)
>
> good luck!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> (in sprint so cant reply much at mo, but we could make stickers
> available thru some kind of web service and work out a way to order them
> via FM but have them delivered to you or anyone needing them)

The session went well -- we had at least 50 people, maybe more. We'd
only printed 25 handouts, so that was a pleasant surprise. We gave
away about 20 stickers, which was great, except that I have only a
couple left for today, when I'm demoing the FM site as part of Scott
Abel's talk about user-generated content. (BTW, David Pogue gave an
entertaining keynote speech in which he shared a list of a "words not
to use", including "user", "content", and "URL". People here have been
self-correcting these terms for the duration of the conference.)

So, I'm planning to tiptoe through the CiviCRM webhome as part of the
demo, to show what the site looks like "in action". I'll ask anyone
twittering the session to please link only to the Read section. Not
that I think tweets from STC will cause as big a hit as stumbleupon,
but just to be polite.

Also, it would be great to have stickers, buttons, and T-shirts
available through a web service like Cafe Press. As Chris said, it
could generate more revenue than you might expect, and if, as Anne
says, you could "set it and forget it", then that revenue would be
gravy. In Amsterdam, I shared a T-shirt idea with the design team,
with "RTFM" as "Read The FLOSS Manuals". Still waiting to see that ...
:-)

--Janet