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Originally Posted by Lightspeed
We flew our top 20 webmasters and some industry friends into Phoenix for a wild weekend of partying and networking: http://www.klixxx.com/archive/lightspeedweekend.shtml
But I disagree about the idea of "No strippers, no official partys, no "talent" - only bussiness" --- if you make the event into a sausagefest, no one will want to attend again.
We haven't done it again, because as much fun as it was, it wasn't worth the expense. Most of the webmasters we invited have either quit the biz, changed companies, lost their traffic, or moved their traffic to another sponsor eventually.
The only way this idea makes sense is to make an event for company owners only, and then it makes more sense to do 1 on 1 private meetings.
my 2 cents
Steve Lightspeed |
I can se why it's not a good thing to do, if its one company alone behind it.
I can give you a good example of a case where it worked
2 years ago raidtec invited me and about 40 other storrage people to a resort on cork(ireland), with about 20 people from Axis (IP-cams) and about 20 or so from Cisco.
what happend at that meeting?
1 -Look at who have the biggest share of public CCTV cams in london.. a lot of it is stored on Plasmo/Raidtec system
2 - Raidtec had got a documented approach to solve the online-videoediting via. tcp problem
The idea is not to take only top webmasters, but remember the small people that have the vision, and dare to develope new solutions.
The convention should not be a "lets just meet and make stuff up"
there shuld be a plan behind it - and i still think it would be profitable.
... and about the "sausagefest" thing - I think you are wrong. I dont care if people want to party after the meetings, but leave the naked girls to the surfers, its a wast of proffesional webmasters time if you ask me
