[Scale-planning] SCALE 101 / helping new attendees

Sat Mar 11 22:49:23 UTC 2017

are you going
<quote who="Caryl Bigenho">
Hi...

I just came across this cute graphic on the CUE Los Angeles FB page. It is
to help first-timers get the most out of next week's National CUE
Conference in Palm Springs. Something similar could be made up and put in
the program. Here is a link to the graphic:
https://www.facebook.com/cue.losangeles/photos/rpp.164746903599002/1397805423626471/?type=3&theater

Caryl

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I really like the short video idea, we definitely can use a few to help
give people an idea of what SCALE is all about.

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 2:03 AM, Christopher Smith
<cbsmith at gmail.com<mailto:cbsmith at gmail.com>> wrote:
I too tend not to watch long videos. I mostly prefer to just read.
Everyone is different though.

I was just going for hitting more modalities with minimalist effort. In
reality, before you arrive at a conference, you've at least somewhat
locked in your plans and your schedule. I figure a talk at the conference
might be too late for many newbies. So, a video of said talk that you
check out well before you attend would fit the bill. If someone wants to
put together some short length videos on the subject, I would definitely
support that idea.

--Chris

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 1:43 AM,
ldangmlist at gmail.com<mailto:ldangmlist at gmail.com>
<ldangmlist at gmail.com<mailto:ldangmlist at gmail.com>> wrote:
I don't have the time or attention span to watch videos that are more than
a couple of minutes long.  Perhaps we can do quick video clips, which can
become advertisements for next year.

At my workplace, HR did a series of short videos on specific topics aimed
at  new employees. That is a lot easier to digest than a long video that
tries to cover everything.  It also helps that it had good production
values.

Lan

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Subject: [Scale-planning] SCALE 101 / helping new attendees
Date: Sat, Mar 11, 2017 1:31 AM

I say we email out the video of the talk to at least new attendees.

On Mar 10, 2017 12:51 AM, "Phil Dibowitz"
<phil at ipom.com<mailto:phil at ipom.com>> wrote:
On 03/09/2017 09:37 PM, Lei Zhang wrote:
> In another thread, Chris Smith said "A recurring theme I observed this
> year with people new to SCALE was that they weren't as aware of
> SCALE's offerings as one might hope."
>
> Should we make a "new to SCALE" guide on the website and link to it in
> the registration emails?
>
> Should we take 1-2 pages near the front of the printed program and put
> the "new to SCALE" guide there?
>
> Did anyone go to the SCALE 101 talk? [1] Was it useful? Should we have
> held it on Friday, instead or ran a second session on Friday?

Gonna answer these in reverse.

The SCALE 101 talk, like last year, was not well attended (about 15
people,
including those that filtered in late), but the panel / Q&A portion was
incredibly interactive, nearly everyone asked questions or commented, and
nearly all of them either stayed late to thank me or found me later to do
so.

Ilan had a suggestion that we do this between the keynote and the first
session, in the keynote room. It's a good suggestion, but we'd probably
have
to move the keynote slightly earlier to account for the panel, which I
think
is the magic of it all (since I think the breaks are only half hour).

This would I think be more useful than stuff in the program which people
don't
read as it is.

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