2012 GWC Impact Zone
By The Global WebSphere Community
Dec 29, 2011 2:01 PM CST
Welcome to the GWC Impact Zone!
Check back regularly for updates on news on Impact 2012 from the Global WebSphere Community.
| Impact 2012 Activities You Don’t Want to Miss |
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Bookmark this page and visit often for details about the GWC activities planned for Impact 2012 including:
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| Buttons, Buttons, and More Buttons! • April 29 – May 4 |
Are you a DataPower Dragon Slayer? Are you always telling people that iLog Rules? Stop by the Global WebSphere Community Room (Lido 3101) and check out our popular slogan buttons. The community has provided their slogan ideas and the winners will be announced soon. The two most popular slogans will be made into buttons that you can pick up at Impact!
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| Virtual Community Challenge • April 30 – May 3 |
Enter a cutting edge world of virtual gaming and play along side your fellow WebSpherians. Whether you're skilled at gaming or not, you'll have a chance to win! There will be a daily prize drawing for anyone who plays and a grand prize given to the overall high score winner at the end of the week. The top two runners up in overall scoring will also win a prize. Read the contest rules.
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| GWC New Member Contest • April 30 – May 4 |
Anyone who signs up for a Global WebSphere Community account is entered in to a daily drawing for a $50 gift card. You don’t have to be at Impact to win! Already a member? Share the love, invite a colleague to join. Read the contest rules.
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| GWC Daily Chirp Challenge Contest • April 30 – May 4 |
Post WebSphere- or Impact-related content and be entered into a daily drawing for a $50 gift card. Use #GWC in your post in any of the following to be included in the drawing:
- Blog on the GWC site
- Post to your Facebook page
- Tweet on Twitter
- Post to LinkedIn
You don't have to be at Impact to win! Read the contest rules.
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| GWC Shout Out Interviews • April 30 – May 3 |
| Stop by the GWC Community Room and record a short video about the most valuable thing you’ve learned at Impact so far. Spend two minutes sharing your story and get a nice gift as a token of our appreciation. Gift available to first 10 interviews only. |
| Livestreaming Impact Keynotes • April 30 – May 4 |
| Can’t make it to Impact 2012? You can still watch the daily keynotes as they stream live on the GWC home page. |
| Hands-On Tours of the GWC Site • April 30 – May 3 |
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Wondering how you can find valuable WebSphere resources? Looking to upload something to the site? Want to get the most out of the GWC experience? Stop by the Global WebSphere Community Room (Lido 3101) and get personal hands-on direction on how to use the GWC site.
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| GWC Leader Training • May 1, 1:00 pm |
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Join us for the session "Engaging your users and driving quality communications with your WebSphere User Group members" and let us show you how to get the most out of the functionality available to leaders on the GWC site. We can also discuss best practices for running a WebSphere User Group and how the GWC Management Team can help you. If attending, RSVP to celia.hamilton@websphereusergroup.org.
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| Impact Sponsors Get a Discount on a GWC Sponsorship |
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Take advantage of a special promotional offering for Impact 2012 sponsors and exhibitors: receive a 20% discount on any new Global WebSphere Community (GWC) Business Partner sponsorship package.
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Impact 2012 Sponsor and Exhibitor Special Offer
Global WebSphere Community Partner Marketing
Don’t miss out on this added benefit of Impact 2012 Sponsorship. Take advantage of a special promotional offering to receive a 20% discount on any new Global WebSphere Community (GWC) Business Partner sponsorship package and extend your marketing and messaging following the Impact 2012 Conference through the global reach of the GWC.
The Global WebSphere Community Business Partner Programs are powerful marketing tools that provide you with effective social media marketing, lead generation, brand exposure and awareness, messaging and differentiation, and intense customer and prospect interaction. Take advantage of standard packages through our newsletters, white paper and customer success story promotions, or talk with our expert team about creating custom campaigns that fit your marketing and sales goals like a glove.
Take advantage of the Global WebSphere Community Business Partner Programs to:
- Extend Your Reach Beyond the Show’s Attendance
- Build Awareness, Generate Leads, Increase Sales
- Increase Name Recognition and Interact With the WebSphere Community in Ways Not Available Elsewhere
Deadline: May 2, 2012
For additional information about the Global WebSphere Community (GWC) Business Partner Program please contact Scott Treggiari (scott.treggiari@wispubs.com) or 781-751-8734. For Impact 2012 sponsorship and exhibitor inquiries, please contact Pari Lasch at 312-541-0567 ext. 654 or via e-mail at pari@corcexpo.com.
 IBM Business Partners, nominate your customers for an Impact 2012 Global WebSphere Community Customer Recognition Award highlighting their 2011 WebSphere related IT or business solution implementations for an opportunity to have your customers recognized at Impact 2012.
The Global WebSphere Community (GWC) recognizes the importance of customer success stories in helping potential customers understand the benefits of WebSphere technologies. IBM Business Partner solutions and offerings are critical in contributing to these customer successes. The Global WebSphere Community Customer Recognition Awards at Impact 2012 provide an opportunity to highlight this important relationship.
- All IBM BP nominated customers meeting the award criteria are eligible for an award.
- Customer award winners will receive a plaque marking their achievement in a special Customer Awards Ceremony at Impact 2012 and an opportunity to have a professional video created with their IBM BP and featured on IBM.com and the GWC (a $15K value).
- Both the IBM BP and the customer award winners will be featured in the GWC Newsletter and special edition GWC Press Release during the week of Impact.
- The first 10 IBM BPs to respond with eligible customer submissions and who are also Impact 2012 exhibitors or sponsors, will receive a feature article published in the GWC Newsletter, a banner ad on the GWC web site in 2012, and a 25% discount on a whitepaper featuring their solutions hosted on the GWC in 2012. Leads resulting from the whitepaper will be provided to the IBM Business Partner.
For more information about the Global WebSphere Community Customer Recognition Awards including award criteria, nominations, and selection process, please refer to the GWC Customer Recognition Awards page.
Deadline for submissions: March 16, 2012
| IBM Impact 2012 Unconference |
Help Set the Agenda
The WebSphere Unconference, May 2, 2012, is an IBM Impact 2012 event where developers like you set the agenda.
You submit and pick the topics. You attend the discussions. You and your peers present.
- Help set the agenda. Submit a topic for the Unconference that you want to present.
- Vote for other topics you’d like to see covered.
- Offer to give a lightening talk (five minute speech) on a topic.
It’s Unstructured
What happens in Vegas…isn’t known yet. We won’t have a schedule until the day before the Unconference—voting will be open online and onsite until May 1st.
It’s Uninhibited
We don’t control the content…this isn’t us telling you what we think you need to know; it’s you deciding what you want to know more about. Peer discussions at Unconference are often where the juiciest stuff happens.
It’s Unbelievable
What an opportunity to attend sessions with your peers on just what you’re interested in! It’s not only yours to create-- the Unconference will also sport a couple of great ringers—development rock stars like Grady Booch, Greg Truty, and Andrew Glover, speaking on great topics in addition to peer-led sessions.
Make your voice heard—Submit your ideas and Vote for your favorite Unconference topics today!
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You Could Win a Complimentary Impact 2012 Pass for Contributing an Unconference Topic
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Submit your Unconference topic and then blog about your idea on the GWC site between February 1 and February 29, 2012, and you will be entered into a drawing to win one of two complimentary passes to Impact 2012. GWC Members who blog on the GWC site about their Unconference submission during February also receive 100 GWC Member Rewards bonus points. Each quarter, the GWC gives its top contributors one complimentary IBM WebSphere Education course as a reward for adding valuable content to the comunity. Blog about your ideas, and you could win too. How easy is that?? Read the contest rules.
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| How to Submit and Vote on Ideas |
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Click on the link below and make your suggestions. Browse ideas that have already been submitted, create new ones and vote on the ideas that interest you the most.
Ideas will be posted in the online forum and on-site via the Unconference grid. Voting will continue until the unconference begins on May 2. Several sessions will be held during each of the three time blocks shown in the schedule below, so click the 'submit your feedback' link below to submit your thoughts and ideas.
Submit your Unconference Topic and Vote |
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