The Importance of Filling Out Feedback Forms

If you’re attending one of our many educational sessions, a volunteer will hand you a form upon entering. This form will ask you a few questions about what you thought of the session and the speaker. Though we ask attendees to fill out these forms each year, the truth is, not enough people do. That’s why I’m writing this post. When we ask for feedback, we’re not just being polite. Your comments and observations help us to plan future events.

Here’s why it’s important to us:

• We can’t attend all the sessions: We can’t see how all the speakers do. We don’t know if a speaker, despite us warning him or her not to, will make sales pitch. We don’t know if someone is laugh out loud funny or so dull you all fall asleep. We don’t know who went on and beyond and who could have put some effort into it. Your feedback is essential to BlogWorld’s success. If you don’t tell us, we can’t give you what you want.
• It tells us what we did right…and wrong: We hope we put together a good conference. After all, we worked on it almost the whole year. Unless you tell us what needs improvement and where we succeeded, we can only guess.
• It helps us to plan future events: Knowing the most popular sessions and speakers helps us to see who to invite back in the future, and what kind of sessions interest you most. Knowing your interests also helps us to plan other non-session related activities.
• Save a tree: If you are handed a feedback form and don’t fill it out, it’s a waste of paper. Do your part for the environment by filling in your form!
• All feedback is good feedback: Everything you can tell us about BlogWorld is valuable. Please share.

It’s important to know what our attendees think of our conference. Your feedback on Twitter and blogs is certainly a big help, but taking five minutes to complete session feedback forms will help us to provide the kind of content you most wish to see. Please don’t leave yours behind in the session room. Fill it out and give it back to the volunteer. We’re counting on you to help make BlogWorld rock.