Relationship Management Conference 2009
So the Blackbaud Europe conference is upon us once more (starts Monday 12th). It's been rebranded this year as the Relationship Management Conference and has some excellent speakers.
Keynote this year is Paul Williamson, head of ticketing for the 2012 Olympics. Looking forward to that. How he plans to fill millions of seats for the whole of the Olympics will be fascinating. We also have plenary sessions from Chuck Longfield, Blackbaud's Chief Scientist and Shaun Sullivan, Blackbaud's CTO.
Personally I have a busy time scheduled. On day one I am doing a session on Challenge Event fundraising. Looking at some pretty interesting numbers and giving out 10 top tips to maximise this type of fundraising online. We've been pretty much coasting with this stuff in the UK and I think next year would be a perfect time to bring it up a notch and really get the most out of this superb method of fundraising. I'll also be running a demo session on our SMS product at lunchtime that day. If you are going to conference then pop along to see how this works...I think you'll like it.
Day two will be one of my busiest ever at any conference. I start the day doing a PCI compliance session with Emily Cunningham, our UK market Product manager. This session will look at what Blackbaud is doing to make sure we help our users become PCI compliant. After a short break I'll be presenting a Cool Tools presentation will will highlight some nice tools that you can use to get the most out of your social media use. This will look at tools to help build a strategy and then monitor how useful it is afterwards. I've completely rewritten this session recently as I've done it at a few other conferences this year and I hope it goes down well. Then after another demo session at lunch I am doing a Deep Dive into Blackbaud Netcommunity where I'll be looking at the product and what it can do plus a sneak peak at our plans for the future of the product. Should be informative and if you are interested in what the next big thing will be with BBNC then you should definitely come along.
After all of that I think I'll retire upstairs for a well deserved (hopefully) beverage!
If you are coming along to conference then why not check out some of our social media vehicles for the conference this year - Facebook, Twitter, Conference central.