Hi,
As Giacomo said earlier, whom I work with, we have not seen a
decline with places filling up pretty quickly. The bigger problem
we face is with no shows which can go up to 33% anecdotally which
is a shame as there are waiting lists so someone not notifying us
potentially excluding someone else in a waiting list who would have
attended. You say you mainly target postgraduates but you could also
go for, and you probably already do, final year undergraduates who
may be undertaking project work which could benefit from software
skills - some of these will go on to become postgraduates but those
that go to join the workforce could also benefit from the upskilling.
Mario
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Hi Sumana,
We have seen a decline even before the pandemic. We have run a few campaigns to
see if we can better get the
word out, but I do know that a lot of our intended audience has been
experiencing the overwhelming task of
moving a lot of their work online.
This, along with virtual meetings, and working almost completely in physical
isolation is most definitely a big
factor in attendance as well. So it is something to take into consideration.
Although, I still think it should not be that difficult to fill an online
workshop for 15 people seeing that we
mostly try to get Post Graduates as they are the ones that will bring in the
biggest change in the near future.
Regards
Martin
On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 9:29 PM Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> wrote:
Martin: you mention that you are in constant decline with workshop
sign-ups. Over what period? In
particular, were you seeing this decline before the pandemic started?
I have seen anecdotal data from multiple different online event
organizers/presenters that, in the past
few months, attendance has declined. This crosses disciplines and audiences --
weekly religious services,
one-off programming trainings and presentations hosted by a for-profit
platform, a conference-style
speaker series, a regular meditation meetup, and so on. The explanation I'm
hearing is: people are a bit
overwhelmed by the quantity and duration of online events and are trying to cut
down to just the
essentials.
-Sumana Harihareswara
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