Hi Nadine,
We have thought about this but the prospect of managing a
refundable/non-refundable fee has always put us off. Our colleagues in
the ARCHER team at Edinburgh have a variant of this which apparently
works very well. People are accepted on the proviso that if they do
not attend without cancelling they pledge to give a nominated amount,
£5 or £10, to some charity. Apparently people do comply and donate
though I am not sure if it improves attendance (I will have to ask).
That might be another model that might be worth thinking about though
you will have to chase people up who did not attend. Even if it does
not improve attendance you get a warm fuzzy feeling that any empty
seats did not totally go to waste,
Mario
On Wed, 14 Apr 2021, BESTARD CUCHE Nadine wrote:
Hi,
Adding a fee can also improve attendance, from here:
"Attendance In general, it seems that people are more likely to show up if
they’d paid money to be there. Some
community members have recommended that people pay a registration fee that can
be refunded to them if they show
up. Obviously, charging for your workshop won’t guarantee that everyone shows
up. Thus, whether or not your
charge for your workshop, it’s important to communicate the value of what
you’re providing to your potential
audience. If people can see that they’re really going to get something useful
out of the workshop, the more
likely that they show up!"
Best,
Nadine
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From: Mario Antonioletti <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [cp-discuss] Best platforms to advertise workshops
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
On Wed, 14 Apr 2021, Martin Dreyer wrote:
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> 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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