Looking at those results I'm pretty impressed. Don't forget that your audience contains a huge mix of people some who need you to go slow and some like me who has heard most of it before. I think your scores are pretty damn good. And the nit pickers - why don't they present eh? 2008/6/12 Grabowy, Chris <chris.grabowy@xxxxxxxx>: > I give up. I keep taking feedback from previous conferences and > incorporate them into my future presentations, and I still can't get them > right. I was "slow", well, the last few times I was "too fast". I took the > time to make sure everyone got the point for each page of my presentation, > and I get dinged for it! I had addressed most of the comments during my > presentation, and I still got dinged on them. > > Did anyone else get "great" feedback from presenting at IOUG???? > > I just can't see myself spending all that time working on anymore > presentations. > > Perhaps, I'll skip the mowing tonight and go straight to the drinking > part.... > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Speakers@xxxxxxxx [mailto:Speakers@xxxxxxxx] > *Sent:* Thursday, June 12, 2008 1:43 PM > *To:* Grabowy, Chris > *Subject:* IOUG Session Evaluation Results > > > > Dear Chris Grabowy, > > > > Thank you for speaking in Denver at COLLABORATE 08 – IOUG Forum and for > generously sharing your time and expertise! > > > > It is through the quality content provided by our speakers that COLLABORATE > attendees increase their knowledge, their skills and their network. > Needless to say, you greatly contributed to the success of our conference > and presentations, such as yours, are what make COLLABORATE the premier > learning experience that it is! > > > > Currently, we are in the process of putting all conference proceedings into > our LoOk (Library of Oracle Knowledge) member area. If you made any changes > to your paper or presentation after you uploaded it, please send the updated > version to speakers@xxxxxxxxx We want to ensure that we have the final > version. > > > > Please find the results of your session evaluations below. The overall > mean at COLLABORATE 08 – IOUG Forum was 3.48. That puts the majority of > sessions into the Very Good to Excellent rankings. > > > > Thanks again for your continued support of the IOUG; please look for the > Call for Speakers notification in late August. We look forward to seeing > you in Orlando, Florida for COLLABORATE 09 from May 3-7, 2009! > > > > > > Peter Smith > > IOUG Director of Education > > > > Jon Wolfe > > IOUG Technical Session Chair > > > > _______________________________________________________ > > > > IOUG Evaluation Report: > > > > Session: #611: Wiki this Way!! > > > > Question 1: How well did the abstract for this presentation describe its > contents? (4=Very Accurate, 1=Not Accurate) > > > > Your score: 3.73 > > > > Question 2: Was the level of technical content appropriate to the objective > of the presentation? (4=Very Appropriate, 1=Not Appropriate) > > > > Your score: 3.5 > > > > Question 3: How effective were the presenter's audio visual materials? > (4=Very effective, 1=Not effective) > > > > Your score: 3.26 > > > > Question 4: Would you recommend this session to others? (% Yes is shown) > > > > Your score: 97 > > > > Question 5: How would you rate the presenter's knowledge of the material > presented? (4=Excellent, 1=Poor) > > > > Your score: 3.55 > > > > Question 6: How would you rate this presenter's speaking style? > (4=Excellent, 1=Poor) > > > > Your score: 3.23 > > > > Question 7: Overall, how would you rate the quality of this presentation? > (4=Excellent, 1=Poor) > > > > Your score: 3.42 > > > > Overall Mean - Average of means for questions 1-3 through 5-7. > > > > Your score: 3.45 > > > > Written Commentary: > > > > • A walk-through of how Chris built the Wiki for his team. Screen shots > would have been good. > > • Lessons learned were very helpful! Thank you! > > • Opening could be shortened, defining a wiki needed less time. Spend a > little more time on why you selected a particular Wiki. Do a bit more > research… OSX Server has a Wiki built-in for example. Info on hosted Wikis > was very helpful. ie: exit strategy > > • Slow > > > > > -- Howard A. Latham