RE: Common or IBM Tech Conf?

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

Paul
what ROI do you  expect from Naples vs COMMON?
I'll  give you the fact it is in warm Florida not too far from the beach.

At 10:08 AM 4/12/2006, pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I can't go to Naples this year, but will be going next year. After 25
> years as a volunteer, I'm burned out on COMMON's lack of ROI for me.
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> I am going there for the first time this year.  Along with getting my
> house ready to sell, moving into the new house, getting ready for my
> daughter's wedding in July, going to my sisters wedding out west in
> August, getting ready for the arrival of the first grandbaby (did I
> mention a wedding?) perhaps doing a little time for "dealing" with the
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> "... ain't gonna no have no time to drink that beer..."
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> Another Conference to consider is the iSeries and AS/400 Connection
> Conference in Naples Florida in June.  This is our 12th year and it was
> started
> by Former IBM employees and business partners.
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> Speakers include:
> Dr. Frank Soltis, Jon Paris, Susan Gantner, Al Barsa, Marie Finnegan, Dick
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> Grenham,
> Skip Marchesani, Dave Prescott, Jim Sloan, Jack Rioni, Alison Butterill,
> Mel Anderson,
> Howard Arner, Dave Boutcher, Greg Hintermeister, Carole Miner, Carol
> Woodbury,
> Larry Youngren, and Glen Marchesani.
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> We also have Full One Day Seminars on several topics on Satursay and a
> Monday evening buffet with
> an open bar and entertainment.  The conference is much smaller and
> speakers are encouraged to spend as much time as possible with attendees.
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> The Naples Grande is a great family facility with a kids camp, water slide
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> and several swimming pools.
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> Hot breakfast and lunch is provided Monday thru Wednesday and hotel room
> rates are reasonable.
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> Jack Rioni
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> date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:32:43 -0700
> from: "John Earl" <john.earl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: RE: Common or IBM Tech Conf?
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> Larry,
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> For me some of the biggest difference between the IBM Tech Conference
> and a COMMON conference are the pace and the tone.  In my experience
> Tech Conferences are a bit more subdued than COMMON conferences (good or
> bad, depending on your perspective).  The days are a little shorter, and
> the socializing opportunities are a little less.  COMMON is more high
> energy, lots of after hours events, etc.
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> As for the education, there are an awful lot of similarities - The Tech
> conference is essentially a subset of the educational offerings you get
> at a COMMON conference (OK, you may be able to point to a couple of
> sessions that you can attend at the Tech Conference but not at COMMON,
> but then again, maybe you can't), with the main difference being that
> about a third of the speakers at a COMMON conference are not IBM
> employees, so you can get some different perspectives at a COMMON
> conference (personally I like the different perspectives - and would
> like to see more of those kinds of speakers).
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> At the IBM Tech Conferences all of the speakers are IBM employees with
> the exception of John Paris and Susan Gantner (who also speak at
> COMMON), and any expo vendor who pays to deliver a vendor specific
> session.
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> Here are some basic statistics about a COMMON conference...
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> -IBM Speakers                               - 65%
> -Other Speakers                             - 35%
> -Sessions by IBM                                    - 72%
> -Sessions by others                 - 28%
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> So from an educational perspective the two conferences are getting more
> and more alike.  The major differences are in the inclusion of non-IBM
> speakers, the after hours events, and all of the other hoopla that is
> sooooo COMMON.
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> jte
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