I am interested in hearing from anyone who has thoughts or experience about providing local network event options for selection by attendees when they register. The specific 'use case' in mind is making menu choices when registering to attend a local network dinner.
No experience, but the problem for local events is normally getting volunteers to present/organise events. I am not sure what you mean by 'options' - is it an option between two concurrent events or is it a voting mechanism such that what is put on is determined by the choices attendees have selected?
I can see problems with both scenarios. If you have options of which concurrent event to attend, some may find that what they are doing is 'trumped' by someone else and therefore discourage them in the future. This of course is on the assumption you can get enough happening to give people the choice. Similarly if you have the event tailored at a late date according to what people seem to want it will give uncertainty in what is happening which will discourage those organising the event.
On the other hand, I can see that it could help in terms of the attendees getting something more in line with what they want, so it is not all negative. If you have the right events for people to select between I suspect it could be successful, though I think the biggest problem is going to be getting the right events (and getting them to coincide to allow the choice).
No experience, but the problem for local events is normally getting volunteers to present/organise events. I am not sure what you mean by 'options' - is it an option between two concurrent events or is it a voting mechanism such that what is put on is determined by the choices attendees have selected?
I can see problems with both scenarios. If you have options of which concurrent event to attend, some may find that what they are doing is 'trumped' by someone else and therefore discourage them in the future. This of course is on the assumption you can get enough happening to give people the choice. Similarly if you have the event tailored at a late date according to what people seem to want it will give uncertainty in what is happening which will discourage those organising the event.
On the other hand, I can see that it could help in terms of the attendees getting something more in line with what they want, so it is not all negative. If you have the right events for people to select between I suspect it could be successful, though I think the biggest problem is going to be getting the right events (and getting them to coincide to allow the choice).
