This afternoon I sat in a chapter leader break out session. I didn’t get to stay for all of it because of PASS ambassador training, however there was a lot that I took away from it.
First off were some great tools to use for getting the news out for chapter leaders:
The first is eNews Generator for the creation of bulk emails to chapter members. It also lets you include content from other news sites by either typing in the article code from a magazine or else searching through the content they have available online.
The next one was an add-in for Outlook called Send Personally. Basically, it lets you send out emails to a list of people, however it will generate a single email for each recipient, rather than mailing to a BCC’d bulk list. This lessens your chances of being flagged as spam. There’s a 20 day trial that lets you email up to 100 people, but otherwise it costs money.
There was a lot of great discussion specific to chapter leaders, so I’ll leave that out, but needless to say it was a great experience and I’m looking forward to continue to meeting as many people as I can.
If you read this in time, I’m going to be a contestant in the SQL Server Quiz Bowl at 6:00 PM in the convention center.
Update
Brent Ozar has posted his review to today’s festivities.
He also has a link to Andy Leonard’s review of the day as well.
Evening Update
I went to this evening’s welcome reception where I participated in the SQL Server Quiz Bowl. I came in second place in a pretty solid competition. Sadly, I know next to nothing about SQL Server Replication (time to learn), so the second round of questions stumped me completely. But, it was a total blast.
I also stopped by the Application Development SIG booth and signed up to volunteer. My plan is to begin helping out however I can and develop content through both written articles and web casts.
PASS is such a great organization and I’m looking forward to contributing over the years to come!
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