RE: [Fsfe-uk] Upcoming Exhibitions

[Chris Puttick]

NAACE - National Association of Advisers for Computers in Education

 http://www.naace.org.uk

Rather badly named as many of the members are about as technical as MS
marketing department, on whom they seem to depend for much of the advice
handed out. However... they do number technical people within their ranks,
and the least technical are normally advisers in the LEA. If you can
convince these people, the schools will come on board. If you don't, the
schools who want to will be fighting an uphill battle. 

The annual conference tends to be smaller than BETT so getting people's
attention will be easier. I'm fairly certain the costs for stands are lower
too.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Smedley
To: Chris Puttick
Cc: AFFS
Sent: 2/4/03 4:11 PM
Subject: RE: [Fsfe-uk] Upcoming Exhibitions

On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 16:05, Chris Puttick wrote:
> I've been and it's horrid - to get any attention you need a central
stand,
> professionally turned out and plenty of slick sales people. Preferably
then
> everything needs an enormous pricetag on it so the heads et al are
> impressed. You'd do better at NAACE  - which is tomorrow :-( 
> 
> BETT is just too much about money to get a look in unless someone with
some
> cash (~£25k) is prepared to back the effort. IBM for tea anyone?
> 

Hello Chris,

Tell us a bit more about NAACE - we'll start
planning for next year ;-/

- Richard

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