IBM Connect 2014 I just want to give feedback and you won’t let me
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Once again the annual IBM Connect evaluation (and speaker reports) is broken. For IBM Connect 2014 it seems you cannot add sessions it didn't see you enter nor see reports as co-speakers.
I won't go into previous year issues, but this year once again used RFID. Unfortunately it does not always catch you entering a room. So how do I add sessions? Not even my own are showing as me entering. No link exists to look up sessions and add evals.
Another problem I really have here..
I run IamLUG, the North American Lotus User Group event, now known as ICON US. We still use paper evals. Not good for the environment? Right. Do we have a 98% return rate of people in a room (we count manually every session) versus what is handed in for each? Yes. Do we make it a lot of fun to turn them in? Yes. We offer it because it is on their mind. Speakers remind you.
IBM has slowly added online evals (that is awesome) but removed the paper ones. Then they make it quite difficult each year to add them. There is no incentive. No push. You walk away after five days of sessions trying to recall them all. Your head hurts.
As for speakers it seems that only the first listed speaker can see the evals., Not all the listed speakers. I am not sure why AllianceTech continues to have these issues year after year. This isn't the only conference they do nor the first Lotusphere/IBM Connect.
Please, IBM. Make life easy to add them. Make it easy for all speakers to see them. Make it a focal point (I did not say gamification Kathy) of a successful conference for people to fill them in. Pretty please?
Note: See part two of this IBM Connect 2014 and AllianceTech for Evaluations
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On Wednesday, February 5th, 2014 by Chris Miller
