Survey results are in. The survey’s still open, if you want to provide input:
Some highlights:
Have attended a meeting before:
93%
Because the response rate from folks on the list who’ve never attended was so low, I’m going to put together another survey specifically for them. Sometime in the new year, most likely.
Member technical expertise:
Advanced 57%
Intermediate 28%
Beginner 14%
Topics of MOST interest:
Advanced Technical Topics
Design Topics
Business Topics
Topics of LEAST interest:
Beginner Technical Topics
3rd Party Products/Integration
This doesn’t mean we won’t cover beginner topics or spend all of our time on advanced topics, but I’ll consider weighting the offerings appropriately. The problem is as usual that I must pick from people who actually want to present! Beggars can’t be choosers.
Items mentioned as MOST useful:
Sharing of techniques, seeing approaches others use
Items mentioned as LEAST useful:
Slide show presentations, drifting off topic and pizza.
Too bad. Your Coordinator-In-Chief says the pizza stays.
Design Critique:
93% say we should do these again, with an average frequency of twice a year. So that’s what’s going to happen. The focus will be much more narrow, and the floor more open to members to participate.
Ideas to improve the member experience (rated 1-5 where 1 is stupid, and 5 is brilliant):
Member run user forum – 3
Different location – 3
Post-meeting drinks offsite – 3
More formal group structure – 1
The only thing I can really read from this last one is that I’m stuck as group coordinator.
Best,
Colin
