Comments on: The Aftermath of GoRuCo http://www.johnmurch.com/2007/04/22/the-aftermath-of-goruco/ John Murch Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:43:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: John http://www.johnmurch.com/2007/04/22/the-aftermath-of-goruco/#comment-311 John Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:32:11 +0000 http://www.johnmurch.com/2007/04/22/the-aftermath-of-goruco/#comment-311 Thanks for the response Abhay. I did not even see that the paper version had a link to an online one, but I am glad you got a large responds from the paper. In retrospect thinking abou it, it makes sense, especailly handing it out at lunch and then following up and staying there to hand them back in. I noticed not everyone was online and checking out the liveblogging. I think some of it had to do with lack of power strips, but I am glad you got the response. I hope to see more at next year's GoRuCo, Keep up the great work! Thanks for the response Abhay.

I did not even see that the paper version had a link to an online one, but I am glad you got a large responds from the paper. In retrospect thinking abou it, it makes sense, especailly handing it out at lunch and then following up and staying there to hand them back in. I noticed not everyone was online and checking out the liveblogging. I think some of it had to do with lack of power strips, but I am glad you got the response.

I hope to see more at next year’s GoRuCo, Keep up the great work!

]]> By: Abhay Kumar http://www.johnmurch.com/2007/04/22/the-aftermath-of-goruco/#comment-276 Abhay Kumar Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:34:44 +0000 http://www.johnmurch.com/2007/04/22/the-aftermath-of-goruco/#comment-276 I'm glad you enjoyed GoRuCo, John. Since I guess since I'm the data whore behind the surveys and other information gathering attempts, I should probably give you the reason for paper surveys. When I sent out a pre-conference survey, I found that only about 1/2 of the attendees responded to the surveys. Although this is pretty darn good, we thought of different ways to get good feedback from our attendees while it was still fresh in their minds. If I gave you a link during the conference, there is always the chance that you won't answer it until quite a bit after the conference or you would totally forget about doing it. In retrospect, I got about the same level of response from the paper survey as I did with the online version which means in the future, I'll probably go with an online version. (less transferring of data!) By the way, we did have an online version of the same survey (link was printed on the survey). I’m glad you enjoyed GoRuCo, John. Since I guess since I’m the data whore behind the surveys and other information gathering attempts, I should probably give you the reason for paper surveys. When I sent out a pre-conference survey, I found that only about 1/2 of the attendees responded to the surveys. Although this is pretty darn good, we thought of different ways to get good feedback from our attendees while it was still fresh in their minds. If I gave you a link during the conference, there is always the chance that you won’t answer it until quite a bit after the conference or you would totally forget about doing it.

In retrospect, I got about the same level of response from the paper survey as I did with the online version which means in the future, I’ll probably go with an online version. (less transferring of data!)

By the way, we did have an online version of the same survey (link was printed on the survey).

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