Building the Monthly Newsletter for SQLOrlando

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

One the things I’ve been doing over the last year is sending out a monthly reminder email of upcoming events. Not revolutionary, I know. I’m sharing what we do...

2020-01-22

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Call for Speakers for Orlando Code Camp 2020 is Open

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

Code Camp will be March 28th, 2020 at Seminole State College. The fifteenth consecutive year! They are definitely interested in developer/end user SQL content and would like at least...

2020-01-07

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SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – The Five Hats

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

I want to wrap up the notes on SQLSaturday by writing about my approach to managing events that I’ve evolved at SQLSaturday but definitely applies to most events and...

2020-01-03 (first published: 2019-12-16)

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SQLSaturday Tampa 2020 (On Leap Day!)

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

Feb 29, 2020 is the date for SQLSaturday Tampa, number 951. The call for speakers is open through January 10th, so you don’t have much time to get something...

2019-12-27

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SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Owning Stuff

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

One of the choices you make as an organizer is whether to buy anything that you want use or give away at the end of the event. Owning nothing...

2019-12-20 (first published: 2019-12-02)

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SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Large Printed Schedules

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

One of the things we’ve done most years in Orlando is to print poster sized schedules. This started out as a supplement to giving everyone a printed schedule and...

2019-12-09

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SQLOrlando 2019

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

We just had our final event of the year and looking back, not bad at all. No event in June or November, but 18 overall (16 listed below, plus...

2019-12-05

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SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Cupcakes & Ice Cream

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

For the past few years we’ve had a a local sponsor provide cupcakes as the “sweet treat”. We started with mid afternoon but found it worked well if we...

2019-11-25

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SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Room Location

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

We hold our event at a local college. The way it works is our contact tries to reserve ALL of the rooms in the building because we will end...

2019-11-18

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SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Coffee

• by Andy Warren

• SQLAndy

I like to say that the goal for any event is to meet the expectations of attendees. The trick is to set the expectations because if you don’t, they...

2019-11-11

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