Submission Last Call for Ignite Phoenix #5

The buzz about Ignite Phoenix is reaching the Phoenix community thanks to the feedback and comments from fans like you. The Ignite Phoenix team is happy to have each of you talking up the event to your friends, co-workers, family, and even strangers in the grocery store!

Ignite Phoenix Submissions

Now, we need your help to make our big push for presentation ideas. As you know, the magic of Ignite Phoenix comes from the passion of our presenters who infect us all with their enthusiasm in their talk. We have received a bumper crop of submissions from the community so far. We’re asking you to help us spread the word that we are closing submissions on Friday, October 2 at 5 pm.

That’s it! At 5 pm, we take down the submission form and begin the voting process. We don’t want anyone to miss their opportunity to present because they missed the submission deadline.

This is where you can help us. Between now and Friday afternoon, would you help us spread the word about Ignite Phoenix submissions? Here are a few ideas of things you can do:

• Talk about it. Remind your friends, family, co-workers, and other passionate people you know that they only have until Friday at 5 pm to submit their Ignite Phoenix presentation idea.
• Tweet about it. You can write your own clever tweets, use one of ours (listed below), or retweet ours on Wednesday. We’ll be tweeting every hour, with other community members helping us to blast out the message.
• Update about it. Use your Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn status update message to share the Ignite Phoenix submission deadline with your online community.
• Blog about it. Why do you think Ignite Phoenix is an amazing event? What was your experience attending a previous Ignite Phoenix event? And for our past presenters, what was your experience as a presenter? You can post your blog entries on our Facebook wall, also (http://bit.ly/bDnMP)
• RSVP to it. We have information about Ignite Phoenix 5 listed on Facebook (http://bit.ly/18Jv64), LinkedIn (http://bit.ly/vcfnO), Yelp (http://bit.ly/10nL0O) and Upcoming (http://bit.ly/JAwDu).

You can use these example status updates:

Have you been thinking about being part of the Phoenix Best Bite-Size Lecture Series? Submit by Friday | http://bit.ly/4hSeX

You know that Ignite Phoenix idea you’ve been talking about forever? You’ve got until Friday to submit it | http://bit.ly/4hSeX

Attention Phoenix! The Ignite submission rocket blasts off at 5 pm Friday. Will your idea be on board? | http://bit.ly/4hSeX

Just copy and paste these into Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn status updates!

RSVP vs. Tickets

We encourage you to make an online RSVP to help to make the event prominent on each of these social media sources (listed above). We ask you to RSVP on every site that you use. However, making an RSVP doesn’t reserve a ticket for you. Ticketing is a separate process. We are finalizing our ticket plans and will have an announcement about our new and improved ticketing process very soon.

Voting Changes

Once submissions close, we will start the voting process to determine the final lineup. We will have a range of judges read every submission and make their recommendation.

We are making some changes to the voting process for this event. First, we are going to expand the judging pool to get some new faces involved. In the past, we have used community judges to supplement the core team in voting. This time, we are primarily using community judges.

Second, we are not using Uservoice to collect public voting for Ignite Phoenix 5.  After reviewing the Uservoice process and outcome, we felt it introduced some confusion and skewed the voting results. With our expanded panel of community judges, we feel that we will get the pulse of the community.

Watch for the lineup announcement by October 10th!

And thank you for helping to create the next Phoenix Best Bite-Size Lecture Series event!

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