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
- Communication with different user groups (email lists to speakers, committees, etc.)
- 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
Speakers (Keynote, Standard, Lightning Talks)
- 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
On-Site Volunteers
- 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
On-Site Attendees
- Pre-conference
- Learn about speakers and presentation topics
- Vote on speakers/presentations
- View final list of speakers and presentations
- Submit T-Shirt Designs
- Vote on T-Shirt Designs
- Complete all registration procedures
- Register for conference
- Register for pre-conference workshops/events
- Prepare travel arrangements
- How to get from airport/train stations to conference site
- Find recommended and/or nearby hotels
- Estimate food costs (conference provided?) and/or nearby restaurants (low-mid-high)
- Peri-conference
- Navigate Conference center
- Request help via website (optional)
- Online map
- Comment and Converse
- Find twitter handle to live tweet
- View twitter stream
- Brief instructions for getting on IRC channel
- View schedule (optimize for mobile devices)
- By track/event type
- Log in and save to personal itinerary (optional)
- Social/Extra Events
- Find listings
- Propose/add an event
- Sign up
- Post-conference
- Revisit Presentations
- Watch recordings of presentations
- Get presentation slides
- Contact speakers
- Tag Presentations
- Share presentation with others
- Provide Feedback
- ...about individual sessions
- ...about conference (facilities, overall opinion, etc)
Remote Attendees
- 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
- Pre-conference
- Evaluate the ROI for sponsorship:
- who is the audience and do they need our product/services?
- who are/have the speakers been?
- what are the goals, uniqueness, and the overall vibe of the conference?
- Determine appropriate level of sponsorship for me or my org.
- Make a pledge or a contribution online
- Make a general contribution
- Make a directed contribution
- Contact someone with further questions or to make a larger contribution
- Submit my logo/blurb for inclusion on site/materials
- Peri-conference
- Appropriate visibility on site
- Appreciation expressed
- Post-conference
- Provide Feedback
- ... about what we could do better
- ... about new business generated through conference
Essential Goals
- Conference Organizers & Committees
- Editing content quickly
- Add/change links
- Posting slides/video and/or related content
- Speakers (Keynote, Standard, Lightning Talks)
- Posting slides/video and/or related content - could be link to wiki
- Post avatars/photos (after voting)
- Submit proposals
- Users will need to vote on them
- On-site Volunteers
- Link to volunteer wiki
- Contact info for committee heads
- Help functionality
- On-site Attendees
- Links to registration
- Travel arrangements
- Food costs/menus
- Provide feedback
- Organizers will need a way to view and analyze the feedback
- Remote Attendees
- URL of live stream
- Instructions for plugins
- Sponsors
- Find info on different levels of sponsorship
- Contact info for making a donation
- Info on representation/promotional materials
- Upload vector graphic of logo
- Find content from print prospectus