As sponsors of the Colorado Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Gold Pick Awards, we were able to have a little fun in the program. Rather than taking out a huge ad that just congratulated everyone, we took out an ad that asked people to send a text message from their cell phone to a five-digit number (called a short code). When they sent the message, we captured their cell number and sent messages asking a variety of questions throughout the evening. Attendees were able to send comments back, and we captured them here.
Throughout the evening, we asked a variety of questions from "what do you think of the emcee?" to "how many times have you visited the bar?" The responses are below (and surprisingly, we only had to edit a couple!).
And since it's my blog, I made a few comments back (in parentheses).
this is fun
i love lamp (nice "Anchorman" reference by someone!)
thanks for having us
this is like twitter (yes, it is. See for yourself at www.twitter.com)
Everything looks great!
Where's the bar, again? (Seriously... a PR person had to ask that question?)
This is cool! (Thanks!)
Thanks Metzger!
Cool
Love it
Good joke by Sam (Sam Adams of the Rocky Mountain News was our emcee)
Luv it
he looks old (not sure who this was about... ouch!)
Fun times (not sure if this meant the bar, the event or our text messaging)
Can anyone hear me?
Great job
if you text and no one gets it, does at&t still charge you?
wwocolol (we think someone sat on the phone funny)
Talk up cant hear you in the back (Sorry to tell you a week later, Sam!)
Super
Excellent job
Great
Free drinks... Yay! (One of our messages offered free drinks, but noted that we were only kidding)
Can I have 2 (a reference to the free drinks... now that's the kind of PR people I hang out with!)
Rum and coke please
2 for me (note how the free drinks message lit up the crowd)
Nice job by all the winners
hi Palmer (Palmer is the president of Colorado PRSA)
please, please give me the tickets (we also gave away a pair of CU football tickets)
i need the tix! (Sorry, unless you were the winner)
nice dress (we hope that wasn't sarcastic)
Thanks
Thanx
Thank you
Thank u
U drive safe
All in all, a good evening. We won two awards and had a great time. Thanks to everyone that participated!