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Join Us at SLA 2009!

We'll be at the SLA 2009 Annual Conference in Washington, DC this year, so please stop by booth # 606 to say hi and see what new things we're working on.

Our SLA Giveaway is Hot

In addition to those pens (we know you love them) and some new paperclips (better than that sounds), we're holding a raffle at SLA this year. It's a bit of an experiment but we hope you'll take to it in the spirit that we're offering it: we'll be asking for business cards and, for ten winners, purchasing carbon offsets for their roundtrip travel to SLA.

TerraPass is a local company that uses the purchase of carbon offsets for your car, your air travel and your home to invest in clean energy projects. We'll be purchasing the winners' offsets through them. We don't know if carbon offsets are the way to go to solve any of the global warming problems but we think it can't hurt to try and hope you'll enter to win to become part of the solution as well.

We'll also be offsetting our own travel - for those going from California each flight produces 867lbs of CO2. Ben's flight from New York produces 1,439 lbs. As for me... I'll do my part by ... um... sitting here with the air conditioner off?

Paper - It's So Over.

A document delivery company going paperless? Well, we can try, can't we?

Since we started delivering articles via email and introduced some other processes in-house we're seeing less and less need for paper. Paper is so over.

Okay, not entirely - we still need it for many of the things we do. But we're going to be encouraging people who stop by our booth at SLA to not pick up any packages of our marketing material. Yes, really - don't bother doing that.

Instead, leave us your business card and we're email it all to you after the show. We still want to show you our products, so stay for a demo, but we don't want to load you down with lots of paper you'll probably get sick of carrying around before you read it anyway. Take a pen, take a paperclip (they're snazzy) but leave the paper. We'll get in touch with that information shortly after the show.

We still reserve the right to make paper airplanes though - they've been part of our logo since the beginning. Look for our new posters and postcards we'll be handing out (more on that in another post) to pick up on that image.

If you're not going to SLA - or can't wait to read all about us - the information you need is linked right over there on the right sidebar under "Documents and Materials". If you click on the "All Files" link you'll be able to download a .zip file of all our materials.

We've Missed You Too!

We haven't actually gone anywhere but we've been so busy filling your orders and sending out your tables of contents that I haven't done much updating here. So, what've you been up to?

Some updates are coming this week as we gear up for SLA 2007 in Denver. If you're going, you'll get to meet Neema, the head of our Service Quality department who's making his first trip to SLA. We're taking over the phones for him while he's away so he can meet you and hear firsthand what a great job he's doing (right?!) and what we can do to make IE work better for you in the future.

You'll also see Robyn, from our Rush department, and Ben who many of you already know, as well as our president Bruce. They'll all be at booth #106 (handy map included below) so please stop by and say 'hi!'.