Managing Event Overload

• Code Camp – tech users mostly
• In Boston, you could attend an event every night
• User groups are competing for the same users
• NewBCamp facilitates an introduction to new people to the tech community
• Promote outside the typical “tech channels” via printed media, flyers, colleges
• Hub websites such as garysguide and rinexus allow organizers and attendees to manage dates
• First see how to contribute as an attendee rather than an organizer - avoid redundant groups
• Some content lends itself to being divided into smaller groups with more specific topics
• Capture content via webcam, streaming to allow virtual attendance, review on demand, archive content
• Surveys allow people to interact with the organizational process – become more empowered within the group
• Why attend events? Events allow collaboration and socializing, valuable for career development
• Events provide opportunities to communicate about what you do to others
• Passing an event along to someone else to organize, managing a transition when you don’t want to organize it anymore – has to be the right group/person
• Delegate certain tasks so the same people don’t do all the work
• As long as there is a reason to meet, there will continue to be a group
• How much talking about it is too much – if it’s the same message over and over, once is enough
• If you have new things to say, say them
• People should become part of the community before they become the ‘voice’ of the group