A few weeks back we asked: What's the most valuable thing you bring home from a geo-conference? 36 people voted.
A pile of business cards of prospects - 25%
Pens, t-shirts and other swag - 23%
Something else - 17%
A pile of business cards of potential partners - 12%
The proceedings - 9%
A new job - 6%
A pile of business cards of tech people to tap for support - 6%
Company literature - 6%
One comment worth noting:
I wish geo conferences had more "updates on the field" talks. Something like one hour of an excellent speaker giving us bits about various applications of the technology that we ought to know about as well as run-downs of new players in the industry, and new capabilities of GIS. Most of us are very focused on our narrow field (either a particular application, development, statistics, web, etc.) so a quick summary of all the other things GISy that go on outside of our normal day-to-day activities would be very helpful.
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