Thanks to you William for CAAO and all you do. I forgot to bid again this year, so there is still more work to be done to get people like me to remember to get involved - perhaps if the auction didn't end on a Friday night, or concluded with a live event or media blitz.

Anyways, I had hoped to bid on several of the executives you had listed because it is a truly unique way to make an introduction. So I'm interested in how those who did participate find the experience - from the executive and bidder sides. Could you get some participants to share stories from the experiences - have major partnerships, friendships and successes come from these meetings? The first-hand perspectives on the outcomes should help grow enthusiasm for the process... perhaps you could even make this a more frequent community engagement process, or an ongoing system.

Yes we will be interviewing the executives and bidders in the auction.  I do have some awesome stories from the last two auctions, but before I put them in public I will speak to the executives and bidders to get their premission to tell their stories.

I sure see a tranformation happening in Northeast Ohio due to this auction.  Maybe an idea is to write a book or film a documentary on the auction.  Maybe we can get the documentary shown at the Cleveland International Film Festival ;)