I recently covered my experiences at the Highland Fling 2008 conference. What I didn’t go into a lot of detail about however, was the excellent swag I left the event with. Indeed all attendees received the free goodies. At first, I thought I’d only received a free bag, I say only but I really mean I was astonished. This is not your standard freebie bag, it is in fact something I’d quite happily use and indeed have already used since the conference.
As you can see, it’s actually a really nice bag. I like the colours, and it certainly doesn’t have anything offensive scrawled all over it. The logo is quite refined.
This was not the only thing that we received however. Indeed the other excellent freebie was a sort of leather booklet organiser. It’s really soft, and has a nice space to slot in a small pad of paper. Indeed, the organisers saw fit to provide both a pad of paper and a pen, which I put to good use. Not thinking that morning, I had neglected to pick up a pad of paper and a pen, so I was very grateful for this. It allowed me to take notes on bits of the talks I really wanted to remember. This is a stroke of genius, and can only be borne out of the organiser having experienced a similar situation where they were also under-prepared and regretted it.
Also provided were the usual bits and pieces, contact cards and a programme for the conference, which came in very handy, naturally.
On a final note on the conference, perhaps a more amusing one, when I arrived; I received my name badge as well as all the other things I’ve pointed out. Now I don’t know where in the line of communications it occured, but my name had been spelt incorrectly. I’m going to assume it happened at the last step, because I can’t honestly see a chain of people thinking Gordon Stephn is a real name, but then I could be wrong. Still it made for an interesting day, with people staring at the name tag and wondering to ask about it.
I have to thank the organisers of the excellent conference once again though. It was an excellent day out, and I fully intend to attend the conference if it continues in to a third year.