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WAC Event Planner Subcommittee Community

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This subcommittee of the ALA Website Advisory Committee will create the requirements document for a new ALA event planner. We'll be doing a member survey as a needs assessment and hope to have a new event planner in place for Midwinter 2010 (fingers crossed). Only WAC members can join this group, although we'll be doing our work publicly and anyone can leave comments on our public posts.

PostNo New Event Planner for Midwinter 2010

by Jenny Levine (staff) on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 9:35am

Hi, Team --

I just wanted to let everyone know that I've been told Conference Services is working with a new company for the back-end planning software for ALA conferences and that this contract includes an event planner for both Midwinter and Annual 2010.

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DiscussionEvent Planner Survey - Results (pdf, xls)

by Jenny Levine (staff) on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 11:39am

The event planner survey closed on July 19, so here are the final results. There were 344 respondents, with 292 completing it.

I haven't had a chance to really go through all of the data yet, but I did read through the summary, and I think we'll have an excellent starting point to hit the ground running.

PostSurvey Responses

by Jenny Levine (staff) on Tue, 06/09/2009 - 12:52pm

I just wanted to note that since we opened the Event Planner survey on Monday, June 1, we've received 174 responses. I'll post a total after it closes on July 17 and upload the results for the group.

DiscussionWhat questions should we ask on the member survey?

by Jenny Levine (staff) on Mon, 04/13/2009 - 9:57am

First up on our to-do list is to survey the members in order to create a needs assessment document. Please share your thoughts abotu specific questions we should ask on the survey. ALA ITTS has a subscription to SurveyMonkey we can use for this purpose.

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