I would suggest we have clearer and stronger language.
Something like the following:
"All speaking proposals needs to be submitted by one of the
speakers. Please do not have a third party enter your
talk. We value speakers that want to be involved in our
community."
I really find submissions from PR firms are typically low
quality and the speaker is not engaged.
Ian
On 7/4/2012 4:33 AM, Campo, Christian wrote:
I think its good to encourage people to submit
talks themselves. I am struggeling a little with the
word "detriment". Maybe its
just my english but I had to look it up in the
dictionary and it seems to have a kind of vague
meaning.
Do
we mean its a disadvantage or is it a blocker ?
Maybe
we can make that clearer and easier to understand for
non-native english speakers like myself.
Other
than that if you mean its a disadvantage and like to
place it as a warning that I am +1.
christian
+1
I don't think we will miss any good talks when
we drop this kind of submissions.
Achim
On 03.07.2012, at 19:45, Anne Jacko wrote:
Hi all -- each conference we have a small
number of talks that are sent in NOT by the
speaker, but by someone who is working for
the speaker -- often someone working for a
marketing firm hired by the speaker's
company.
Our submission system isn't set up for
this, and it causes a number of problems
that are a PITA to sort out. But the worse
issue IMHO is that these speakers tend to
be unengaged with the conference. They
don't care if they get emails from us,
they don't read what we send out, they
take a long time to sign their speaker
agreements, and sometimes their company
will ask to send a substitute speaker
after the talk has been accepted.
Ian and I once discussed adding some
text to the submissions info saying
something like "having your talk submitted
by a third party is a detriment to its
being accepted; our community values
speakers who are involved and active
participants."
What do you think? Good idea? Bad idea?
Thanks.
Anne Jacko
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