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Thank you, all of you who endured took the time and effort to complete the BlogHer Conference '05 Decompression Survey. Here is a brief synopsis of what you said -- and we listened, as you'll see in our first BlogHer email news bulletin coming this week.
What did we learn? We learned that:
On a personal note, I need to add that I was unprepared for one facet of your feedback. I've been administering and reporting on women's opinion surveys for many years and know for a fact that women don't feel a need to pull their punches in this format. So don't ask women for their opinions if you don't want a frank answer! But when I opened these responses, the survey feedback felt like a huge group hug. Yes, you administered a few sharp raps to our knuckles, and we deserve them (longer sessions, more time to socialize and no more Shania Twain videos, damn it!). But most of your suggestions were qualitative, specific, strategic, and amounted to an incredible outpouring of enthusiasm and support. I provide some samples below.
To wit: 76 percent of the people who responded to this survey volunteered to help out with BlogHer '06. Now for that, I know, Elisa, Jory and I will happily burn the midnight oil. Again, thank you.
I've selected and summarized these questions in the following order. Here goes--answers begin below this list:
1. BlogHer attendee demographics
2. Please rate your satisfaction with BlogHer overall on a scale of 1-5? (5 is high, 1 is low; please choose one)
3. Do you feel BlogHer fulfilled its mission of creating greater community, education and exposure for women bloggers? Why or why not?
4. How would you rate the overall quality of the sessions? (5 is high, 1 is low; please choose one)
5. How would you rate the overall quality of the discussion guides/moderators and speakers at BlogHer? (5 is high, 1 is low; please choose one)
6. How important do you think it is for BlogHer to maintain an all-female speaking roster?
7. How well did the conference do overall to involve participants rather than having traditional panels?
8. How would you rate the overall quality of BlogHer's approach to networking and getting to know each other, e.g., at Friday dinner and Birds of a Feather meet-ups?
9. Would you be interested in a conference that lasted two or more days? What would be the optimal duration to cover everything at a BlogHer conference?
10. Do you prefer that BlogHer Conference 2006 be held on a weekend or a weekday?
11. In case you haven't had the opportunity to address this question above, what did you enjoy most about BlogHer Conference '05?
12. In case you haven't had the opportunity to answer this question above, what did you dislike most about BlogHer Conference '05?
13. Bonus question
Detail-----
- Number of people who attended BlogHer Conference '05 in person: 300+ women and men
- Number of survey respondents: 116 women and men (Note: Results include 113 complete surveys and three partially completed surveys
- BlogHer's 116 respondents were:
- Gender: 110 women, 6 men
- Attended conference: 97 percent
- Signed up for email updates: 98 percent
- Blogging in these categories:
