Corporate Membership

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Corporate Membership Application
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Corporate Membership Brochure

The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), www.cosn.org, the leading national association representing school district technology leaders, works to advance the capacity of the K-12 education community to improve learning through the effective use of information technology and the Internet. CoSN accomplishes its mission by providing programs and activities that support leadership development; offering guidance in the practical applications of new and emerging technologies; creating numerous partnerships and collaborations among the corporate, governmental, educational and non-profit sectors; and advocating for effective technology policies. CoSN members represent a unique partnership of leading decision-makers from K-12 local and state education agencies, the private sector, nonprofit organizations, and higher education groups.

Corporate Members of CoSN receive significant benefits in terms of their own professional development as well as exposure for their company. These benefits include access to key technology decision makers in schools, districts and states; networking opportunities with industry peers; visibility and branding opportunities within the education technology community; and timely and relevant information about the issues that most affect their businesses.

Corporate Members:

• Receive valuable information in the Corporate Member Bulletin, an electronic newsletter distributed bi-monthly; the Washington Update, a monthly publication focusing on topics like the E-rate, No Child Left Behind implementation and the funding of technology; and the CoSN Compendium, a series of monographs on current technology issues;
  
  
• Participate in the feedback forums and focus groups held three times a year enabling school leaders to frame the challenges they are facing and discuss key education technology issues with members of the private sector;
  
  
• Connect with key education technology leaders from across the nation;
  
  
• Meet with industry colleagues at both regularly scheduled informal networking and virtual events throughout the year;
  
  
• Get emerging technology reports on significant trends in education;
  
  
• Have representation on the CoSN Private Sector Council;
  
  
• Join a Committee to help shape CoSN policy and direction;
  
  
• Participate in the CoSN Internet & Education Webcasts, a series of 60-minute interactive presentations on key issues for technology leaders;
  
  
• Obtain discounts to the CoSN Annual K-12 School Networking Conference, an event bringing together over 700 educators, primarily from the school district and state level; and,
  
  
• Receive timely policy updates and participate in the CoSN/ISTE Education Technology Advocacy Network (ETAN).
  
  

As a Corporate Member your company will receive visibility in the education technology community with:

• Linkage to your company website from www.cosn.org, which receives over 12,000 hits a month;
• Listing in the Member Bulletin that is distributed to all members of CoSN bi-monthly;
• Ability to use the CoSN corporate logo on your website, at exhibits and on appropriate printed materials;
• Complimentary one-time usage of CoSN's postal mailing list, plus discounts on additional usages;
• Recognition in a special two-page layout listing all Corporate Members in the CoSN Annual K-12 School Networking Conference program book;
• Discounts on exhibit space and registration fees for the CoSN Annual K-12 School Networking Conference;
• Ability to sponsor individual events, publications and leadership initiatives; and,
• Branding in the 2005 CoSN Compendium, a collection of technology related monographs dealing with issues of importance to school leaders.

Membership in CoSN is $3,500 a year for the period starting July 1 and ending June 30.