Help Us Help You

Tonight we launched our new (still kind of in beta) registration management application. We have been feverishly banging away at the code behind our registration tool for this years PodCamp AZ (less than 2 weeks away... holy cow!). Now we need your help on four fronts.

1. Registration information: We have imported the information you sent us over the last year and loaded it into our new system so you can look at what we have and make sure what we have is correct. This is important because we use this information in printing badges for you, buying t-shirts for you and getting everything ready... FOR YOU! :) Please take a moment and login to double check our record keeping skills and right any wrongs.
2. Session voting: This one is critical. We need to get an idea of how to place the sessions in the rooms we have provided. We have come up with a voting system that allows you to vote for up to 10 sessions you think are worth attending. Don't worry, we won't hold you to your votes and you can change them at any time. We just want to know where the interest is and who MIGHT attend. So please spend all of your votes and spend them wisely. We greatly appreciate the little extra effort.
3. Beta Testing: As this is a very new application, we know there are most likely bugs and tweaks that we need to make. We need your help hashing out all the bugs. We have Uservoice installed on the site, so if you would be so kind and help us report issues you see, we would be eternally grateful!
4. Spread the word: If you haven't already noticed, this is something we should have launched several weeks ago and we know that but please give us some grace as this free unconference has a lot of moving parts and this one was one of the last to come into place. If you could help us spread the word by forwarding, tweeting, telling and whatever else you can do to help us get the word out in the short time we have until the event. Again... We are eternally grateful!

Thank you in advance! We can't wait to see you in 2 weeks!

Now... Check out the app

And lastly...

As with every other year here at Podcamp AZ, our BIGGEST sponsor is YOU! We are always looking for new sponsors to help make the event even more awesome but this year, with the great response we have received from our attendees, we have devoted the money that has come in from individuals to buying a 2009 PodCamp AZ tshirt for EVERYONE who registers and attends. This means that if we have your current and correct information in our new app and you show up, we'll have a shirt waiting for you for free! So as a HUGE thank you for all of you who make this thing amazing, it's the least we can do in return. Thank you once again for being the most important part of Podcamp AZ. YOU ROCK!