As a valued friend of the CIDM, we invite you to participate in the Best Practices Showcase at the 2009 Best Practices conference, September 14–16, 2009. The Showcase will give you a wonderful opportunity to learn about more best practices than we could possibly fit into the sessions.

Join a group of your peers in highlighting your organization's best practice

The Showcase gives you a chance to demonstrate how you and your team have succeeded in communicating information, serving customer needs, building a more efficient operation, creating a stronger team, or any other operating practices that others will find valuable. We ask that you communicate this idea in a poster display with brief text, bullet points, an illustration, a graph, a laptop computer display, and so on-a high-level description of the idea. Displays should be large and easy to read because people will be walking up to your poster and discussing your best practice with you.

Participating in the Best Practices Showcase is not difficult. Creating your poster should be easy, and involving your staff in the planning will give them recognition as well. The Showcase best practices descriptions will be included in the conference Proceedings and will be made available to attendees and CIDM members and friends.

The Showcase for Best Practices 2009 will take place on Tuesday, September 15, 2009, from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM. Showcase presenters will have a table and a display tri-fold panel on which to hang their posters. A speaker should remain at the table to share the concept of the best practice with conference attendees. Conference attendees will walk from table to table discussing and learning about the best practices of all presenting companies & individuals.

You may be as creative as you like with charts and illustrations. We will have backing (36" x 48" tri-fold display panel), tape, and pushpins available, as well as colored paper, scissors, markers, and other supplies. These supplies combined with your creativity should make it simple to set up a nice display quickly. You will have time during the morning and after lunch to set up your poster.

Handouts are optional for the Showcase but have been hot items in previous years. Handouts could be the same as the poster or include additional details and contact information.