Conference Site Users: Goals and Interactions

Conference Organizers & Committees

Pre-conference
- Build out the site
- Create a suite of master templates for individual year conference pages
- Create persistent online collaborative spaces for private and confidential conversations and documents
- Create Pages for Each Committee outlining duties, timeline, contacts and volunteers (self-sign up)
- Collect feedback from potential conference-goers
Peri-conference
- Make crucial information changes quickly and easily
- Collect time-sensitive feedback from conference-goers
Post-conference
- Post slides, video and any other related content for archive purposes
- Review Feedback and pass on to future hosts
- Review Site Use and Page Views

Pre-conference
- Submit standard talk proposals
- View status of proposal
- Find info on date, location, conference and room setup (coffee, wifi, food), conference cost, hotel cost (wifi add'l cost?), transportation cost
- Understand exactly how lightning talks will be organized and how submissions will occur
- Keynote speakers will probably view the site for general info about what code4lib and the code4lib conference is exactly
Peri-conference
- Update event/session information
- Sign Up for Lightning Talk
- Know where lightning talks are being held and what the order is
Post-conference
- Add links, slides, content
- Not sure speakers need the site much post conference

Pre-conference
- Understand how they can help and what jobs need to be done
- Sign up
- Schedule shifts
- Find out more about duties/tasks to be completed
Peri-conference
- Coordinate with organizers
- Find contact info for organizers/other volunteers
Post-conference

Pre-conference
- Decide which sessions to attend remotely
  - Review all sessions (titles, abstracts, speakers)
  - Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
- Notifications
  - Option 1: Add wanted sessions to personal calendar (opt-in notification)
  - Option 2: push notifications via email (requires user to register for specific sessions)
Peri-conference
- View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
  - By track/event type
  - Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
- View session remotely
  - Instructions to download software/plugins (if needed)
  - Links to remote sessions
- Social media
  - Find twitter handle to live tweet
  - View twitter stream
Post-conference
- Revisit Presentations (see on-site for details)
- Provide Feedback
  - ...about individual sessions
  - ...about remote experience