Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Stand out in our Crowd at the 2011 Cohousing Conference in DC June 15-19: Sponsorships, Exhibit Tables & Program Ads

[Georgette Vigil (Georgette]

What Other Venue allows you to meet people from all these cohousing
communities? 

Ashland Cohousing Community; Blueberry Hill Cohousing; Boulder Creek
Community; Cambridge Cohousing; Capitol Hill Urban Cohousing; Casa Verde
Commons; Central Iowa; Cohabitat Quebec; Cohousing California; Cohousing
Marin; Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage; Daybreak Cohousing; Durham Central
Park Cohousing Community; Eastern Village CoHousing; ECHO; Elderberry
Village; ElderGrace; Elderspirit Community; Genesee Gardens Cohousing;
Harmony Green Village; Hundredfold Farm Cohousing; Jubilee!;
Kaleidoscope Village Cohousing; Katywil Ecovillage; Legacy Farm
Cohousing; Maitri House; Mosaic Commons / Sawyer Hill; Mountain View
Cohousing Community; Nevada City Cohousing; Oak Creek Commons; Paradise
Wellness Ecovillage; Peninsula Park Commons (current); Cully Grove
(forming); Pioneer Valley Cohousing; Sandhill Farm; Shadowlake Village;
Silver Sage Village; Songaia Cohousing; Swan's Market Cohousing; Takoma
Village; Temescal Creek Cohousing; Three Groves Ecovillage; VESTA;
Westwood Cohousing; WEV (Wissahickon EcoVillage); Wild Sage Cohousing;
Wissahickon EcoVillage; Yulupa and more to come.

 

Georgette Vigil

 

SAVE THE DATE

2011 National Cohousing Conference

June 15-19, 2011  --- Washington DC

"Making Better Neighborhoods for the Future."

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Raines Cohen [mailto:rc3-coho-L [at] raines.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 5:19 PM
To: Cohousing-L
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Stand out in our Crowd at the 2011 Cohousing
Conference in DC June 15-19: Sponsorships, Exhibit Tables & Program Ads

 

 

I just wanted to follow up on Barbara's post about conference

opportunities, and, as a longtime conference participant, sponsor, and

program advertiser, say a word about why I advertise and why you

should, too, whether or not you'll be joining us in person at this

year's conference in our nation's capital.

 

If you're going, you'll be busy. Very busy, between sessions and

booths and networking and connecting. With over 200 people expected,

you'll only get to have meaningful conversations with a few, and

they'll be overwhelmed with information and connections. Your ad in

the guide will help the people most interested in your community, your

experience, your services, or your publication choose to spend some of

their valuable conference time with you. Plus, afterwards, they'll use

the program guide for reference to sessions and people, when they're

making buying decisions, and if you advertise, there you'll be, easy

to find and ready to help them with their next steps.

 

If you're not going, you'll be invisible. Very invisible, as people

look around the room and focus on who's there, then. A very small

investment will "hold your place" and show that you're serious about

being a player in the world of cohousing. More than ever, this

conference is reaching out to people in government and partner

organizations that don't know who's who in our world. Think how

valuable it will be to talk to someone at AARP or USGBC or HUD and say

"I know you were represented at the national cohousing conference -

see my ad in the program there."

 

Either way, the options that include links on the Conference website

will be extremely valuable. An incredible amount of effort by a small,

dedicated core of volunteers is going into building awareness of the

conference and promoting it. Get some of that flow to your website and

generate impressions among the larger audience that will be following

from all over the country.

 

And last but certainly not least, being in the program is a way of

showing your support for the cohousing movement, and the Cohousing

Association of the U.S. (Coho/US) that is putting on the conference,

supporting the web infrastructure and outreach work that helps all of

us.

 

Don't have a cohousing-related business? Don't have a meeting to get

full-community consensus on an expenditure? No prob, just pass the hat

among a few of your neighbors or other prospective members and go in

together on an ad. Don't worry about the graphic design, all it takes

is a few words and an image to get the key point across and appeal to

those who care.

 

So, what are you waiting for? Barbara is ready for your call, but

running out of time. She's got a lot of creative options that will get

you visible, connected, and sharing in the conference program.

 

Raines Cohen, Cohousing Coach (Berkeley, CA)

Community Organizer, East Bay Cohousing/Cohousing California

Celebrating over 1400 members in EBCOHO this week, with a full house

Monday at our showing this week of "Happy" with the Director and Crew,

and a nice crowd out for "I Am" at a theatre Wednesday.

 

P.S. For those of you who are going, remember that you've got just a

couple weeks to register with the advance discounts. Get your friends

together and register five folks and the sixth one is free.

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