No Brand Con has wrapped up for yet another year, and was bigger than ever with an attendance of 1075! We’d like to thank everyone who came and made this the best No Brand Con yet.
While you’re here, you should Stop By Our Forums and say hi to everyone else who came! Remember, the community is year round on NoBrandCon.com.
For those of you who are still looking for a room last minute, you may have noticed that the official Hotel has been full for a while, as is our primary backup hotel. Because of that, we’ve set up another backup hotel. It’s a bit away from the convention center, so you’ll need to drive down to the con from there, but it’s easy to find from the freeway.
Our backup hotel is the Heartland Inn —
4075 Commonwealth Ave.
Eau Claire, WI 54701
Phone: 715 839 7100
Hey folks, it’s April 1st, and that means (besides the fact that you should check your chairs for whoopee cushions) that No Brand Con preregistration has closed. The final count isn’t in yet (as we still need to tabulate our mail in registrations) but early results show that we’ve beaten last years prereg count quite handily.
We think that’s pretty neat.
Confirmation letters will be going out at the end of the week, so make sure you check your mail.
Just to remind you, that if you missed the chance to preregister, that you can still attend No Brand Con (albeit for a slightly higher price) - so don’t let having forgotten to preregister keep you from attending. We still would love to see you there.
Hey there! While the No Brand Heroes are busy fighting evil, we thought we’d bring you the second No Brand Con Podcast to continue the entertainment extravaganza. In this installment Topher talks to Ross, the No Brand Con workforce organizer, about volunteering at No Brand Con. He also talks to Katie about what to expect at this year’s No Brand Con Dance. Finally, Connor Rants about something. It’s full of fun, trust me.
And remember, Preregistration closes at 11:59pm Central on March 31st — so if you want the reduced rate for registration, make sure you get that in quickly!
I know you’ve probably been scrambling to preregister to make it by the March 21st Deadline — but fear not! We’ve decided to extend No Brand Con preregistration until March 31st!
That’s right, you have a whole extra ten days to preregister for No Brand Con 2008!
No Brand Con isn’t just a once a year event for a lot of people. In fact, there is a community both locally and online that works towards this event year round.
Because of that, we thought we’d start a semi-regular podcast to update you not only on convention planning, but geekery in general. This opening episode is just a brief introduction by No Brand Con co-founder and long time staffer Topher “I play Greenboy” Marohl, but stay tuned for more in the long run.
We’re proud to announce that all space in the No Brand Con 007 vendor room has been filled! That’s the fastest we’ve ever filled up the space. We’ll have a list of confirmed vendors up as soon as we can.
So, while our website is still in flux (and not everything is up yet), we’ve added quite a bit of handy information this weekend for your enjoyment.
Make sure you poke around, but if you visit the attendee and vendor pages you’ll find some new information that wasn’t there before, along with printable, mail-in versions of our registration forms (which we know some of you were patiently waiting for). On the Attendee page you’ll also find a link to the documentation on Sponsoring No Brand Con (PDF).
