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=Raffle tool=
Kyle Bannerjee has a raffle tool here:http://raffle.alptown.com/
=Lessons Learned=
If you have too much stuff to give away, let winners select more than one prize.
Timing is critical. Giveaways immediately after lunch go faster because most attendees come back to the room for the next session. Slots after a poster session or between lightning talks and breakout sessions are much slower, as many people choose to take a break and not return to the room. It is therefore necessary to call lots of names before selecting someone present in the room. Giveaways on the final day are avoided since attendance is lower that day.
If you have software codes or coupon codes as prizes, it can be helpful to print them onto individual certificates that can be handed out to winners.
For fun, have a sound tech add a drum roll.
In 2020, several publishers gave an ebook license or discount code for all attendees. It might be better to request more of those kinds of rewards from publishers and do fewer individuals prizes.
= Book Raffle Publishing and software companies= It would be nice Be sure to hit up some publishers for books to raffle off at include companies in a "Giveaway Sponsors" section on the conference. If you've got ideas add them below under the name of the publisher. Most tech publishers have user group coordinators that are more than happy to make donations available. ==Addison-Wesley==* [http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Practice-of-System-and-Network-Administration-The/9780321492661.sponsorship page Practice of System and Network Administration, 2E] == APress == == Manning == * [http://manning.com/passin/ Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web] == Morgan & Claypool Publishers==* [http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00215ED1V01Y200907ICR009 Reading and Writing the Electronic Book]* [http://www.morganclaypool.com/toc/wbe.1/1/1 Publishing Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web] (maybe not out yet)* [http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00334ED1V01Y201102WBE001 Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space]* [http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00371ED1V01Y201107AIM013 Human Computation]* [http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00336ED1V01Y201102CSL003 Science Fiction Prototyping: Designing the Future with Science Fiction]* Maybe other books from the [http://www.morganclaypool.com/toc/icr/1/1 Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services]* ... == Morgan Kaufmann == * [http://www.elsevierdirect.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780123735560 Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist]
== O'Reilly =Boilerplate=* ...A variation of the following was sent to each company:
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