[Deptheads] Seminar Event Label
Evil5757 at aol.com
Evil5757 at aol.com
Wed Feb 22 10:42:47 PST 2012
You are exactly right, you can't do 2 things at once so you have to choose.
This is why we need to make the Seminars an attractive event to attend.
At Gateway, Columbia Games had 20 people show up to hear about their new
products and get feedback on their gaming line. They were VERY happy with the
20 people for an hour situation. If we provide good seminars, they will
make the time if they desire. As such, the people there will be excited to be
there and make it a better atmosphere for the speaker.
For RPGs, Mike did a TERRIFIC job in keeping the RPGs with set start times.
A major problem we had before this with coordinators who let RPGs happen
whenever was people were constantly leaving games before they ended to get
into their next game or having to wait 3 hours because there wasn't anything
scheduled after their game ended. We need to keep the times the way they
are, this is a BIG reason the RPGs are flourishing as they are.
We might want to look into bringing someone from Pathfinder in for a
Seminar, then schedule a minimal number of events for the time they are going to
speak OR make it during the dinner break and see if they will sponsor their
seminar with pizza for Pathfinder players....?
John
In a message dated 2/22/2012 10:25:30 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
phantom.hopscotch at gmail.com writes:
The speaking seminars, to my knowledge and one year experience, are never
well attended. Likely because there's just *so much* to do and the
seminars fall during games and such that it's difficult for people to get to
everything they want to play and see.
For example. In RPGs, if I want to play a 2pm game AND go to a
speaker/seminar at 5pm, I'm sorta SOL. I have to choose one or the other--and if I
choose the seminar, I get to stand around for 3 hours and do nothing (I'm
not a board gamer or a card gamer). In fact, that was a problem I ran into
this past convention--even with all the games going on in RPGs, I still
found myself with nothing to do for hours on end because games were full or I
had something scheduled in the middle of a game or, in one case, I was so
offended by the GM, I left 10 minutes into the game.
Maybe we should re-look at our scheduling? We could offer more RPGs if
people were willing to start them every hour. I know it forces us to use
more space, but if we stagger the start times of games, you don't have people
wandering around, waiting...plus, it makes it easier for people to get into
a board game/tournament and/or see a guest speaker or go on a tour or
something like that if they don't or cant' join a 2pm RPG or something.
Perhaps I could talk to Robyn about it offline... >_> It just popped into
my head due to running a couple things over the past year that have had
less than vibrant attendance--like the seminar I'd planned for Women in
Gaming...and Costuming & Cosplay... the Costume Contest (but, that's moving
completely into something else). I know there was a guest who was doing a Q&A
once who had all of three people show up--and 2 of them worked with me in
the D20 Girls...they weren't there because they wanted to be, they were
there because they felt badly.
Sorry for the long-winded response. I just think we really need to
re-examine our scheduling and try to coordinate it all a little bit better.
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:12 AM, <_Evil5757 at aol.com_
(mailto:Evil5757 at aol.com) > wrote:
I feel the best option is to have Seminars actually become a department
instead of a collection of "who's speaking." We used to have people come to
the con JUST FOR the seminars and they had a blast. To the best of my
knowledge, we don't have anyone beating the bushes for speakers or a War College
and we should.
Karl and Mike, would you be willing to tie into Bootcamp and Historical
Miniatures and fill the War College void and get it going again? I will be
working with the Manufactors next convention to build towards them giving a
talk on all their new products coming up (hopefully kicking off with
Gateway). If successful, it should bring 11 or more manufactors to speak, each
with give-aways at the seminar.
I seriously think it should be something we work to improve. A new label
might be in order, but we should look at it in a positive way. Maybe "Guest
Speakers," "Gaming Speakers," "something to let people know it will be new
and exciting information.
John
In a message dated 2/22/2012 7:33:49 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
_Tim at stugiii.com_ (mailto:Tim at stugiii.com) writes:
We need to change the "Seminar" "department" and label to something more
meaningful. I know some con's label these events as "Other" or "Misc.". I
really don't like those labels. We can't call them "Special Events"
because we already have a definition for that and some of the events currently
listed under "Seminar" would not fit there.
Perhaps "General"?
Anyone have any ideas?
Tim
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