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Santa Cruz New Tech Alliance September Meetup

Sep '08 3 Wed 7:00 PM

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Estimated attendance: 50 people attended.
4.5014
Who organized?
David Warren, Doug Erickson, and Robert Blumberg

We have another fine line up of presenters for September 3.

VendorRate - VendorRate helps reduce risk when businesses purchase IT by providing the first-ever centralized IT vendor comparison service. VendorRate’s confidential scoring system permits business professionals to enter ratings securely, and all vendor performance scores are published 24x7 via the web.
Michael Rubin - author, filmmaker, CEO as well as co-founder of Petroglyph Ceramic Lounge, and most recently Director of Product Management at Netflix, specializing in community effects. Michael will discuss why Netflix's community is so succesful, and in particular, the work Netflix has done, and lessons learned, in the exploration of community and network effects over the past 3 years.
NextSpace - have you heard about the new high tech community space in Santa Cruz? Come learn all about why you should stop commuting, and start working in paradise as well as living here in Santa Cruz.
UserVoice - this new technology enables enterprise companies to efficiently collect customer feedback and gain insight for product development & brand innovation.

Please RSVP "Yes" or "No" for the event so that we know how much pizza to buy. See you soon!

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Who attended?

50 attendees
- Dean Quarnstrom (+1 guest)
  
  “ Once again, the Meetup delivered as promised. I do have a suggestion for Richard from User Voice...maybe try to speak more slowly when a portion of your audience looks to be in the same age group as your parents. I really enjoyed what I did hear, though. ”
- William Morris
  
  “ great pressos. Really good insight netflix community ”
- Craig
  
  “ a little short on pizza, drinks and plates ”
- Doug Erickson
  
  Host & Organizer
  
  “ Great energy and presentations tonight! Seems that we keep coming back around to discussions about how social networking and the Internet is impacting our businesses, our purchasing behavior, and the way we communicate. ”
- Reesa Abrams
  
  “ what about having 4 different groups going on at the same time and people circulate from one to the other so that we can really have conversations ”
- Myles Kitchen
  
  “ Interesting presentations, as always. ”
- Robert Blumberg
  
  Sponsor - April 2 MeetUp
  
  “ Maybe the best yet. Love Rubin's talk about Netflix. ”
- Sanjiv Garg
  
  “ very well organized and informative; great speakers. ”
- Bill Jordan
  
  “ I enjoyed all the presenters tonite. I particularly enjoyed Michael Rubin's presentation. It was excellent and an area of the business (community building) that is very difficult for most companies. ”
- Sara Isenberg
- Chris Yonge
- Rob
- Mike Attlesey
- John Zott
- Galen O'Hanlon
- Steve Terry
- Valerie Promise
- Guy Schilling
- Peter Belew
- Dan Iuster
- Alan Hawrylyshen
- Sergio Cardoso
- Richard White
- Tim Clark
- Jeff Liebermann
- Patrick Reilly
  
  Sponsor of November MeetUp
- quinn
- Carmel
- David Warren
- Rick Schaefer
- Sean Gilligan
- Jeffrey Fredrick
- Ron Franke
- Dave Sweeney
- Mark Ferree
- Jim Faith
- Michael Kaye
- Michael D'Antonio
- Tod Landis
- T Westbrook
- katherine.
- Shahrom
- Rand Pendleton
- Caleb Baskin
- Janet Brumbaugh
- Michael Shulman
- Tod Anderson DDS
- Thomas Brown
- Chris Lash
- Tom McKay