Vendors/Product/Services - An Idea

(for those tempted to give me grief for posting while I'm on vacation, this post was actually written several days ago and set for a timed posting today)

Sort of inspired by my earlier posts on Outsourcing and Copier selection.  What if...

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For any sort of product, or vendor, or service, or whatever, I specifically seek out CITRT connections.  When interviewing vendors (or whatever), I make a point of asking questions like:

• Does your organization have any current connection to CITRT?
• Does your organization have any bloggers?
• Can you give me names of other churches who are using your product?
• Can you show me references, where a Church IT blogger has given a referral about your product or service?
• Are you willing to do a product presentation at a local, or national, CITRT meeting, or participate in a podcast, or otherwise specifically present to our Church IT community?

At first blush, this seems pretty harsh -- "I don't like you if you're not connected to CITRT."  Then again, what an opportunity, both for the vendor, and for us.

Too extreme?  Too limiting?  Consider this a straw-man -- throw darts at it.

Comments

[Jason Lee]

of course i don't think its too harsh...