As many of you I'm proud to raise my right-hand and announce, "I am not a techie." It's my cheeky way to emphasize that I'm more concerned with strategy than the tools themselves. I have also been a very strong critic of how poorly designed and user-unfriendly most tools are. Today I'm feeling a bit more optimistic. Here's why!
I just spent the last 3 hours preparing a mini-website for a conference I'm facilitating and presenting at in London. Just three hours! Over the past half-year I've started to develop these online platforms (mini-websites) as a way to support attendees at workshops, retreats and others types of gatherings. I've found this to be a very strategic, low-cost, easy to implement way to:
- Prepare attendees
- Gather pre-session desires
- Gather post-session evaluations
- Offer easy access to session materials
- Facilitate attendees ability to connect to eachother
- Provide attendee with links to useful resources
- Give attendees logistical information
I invite you to visit the follow platforms to get a better sense of how these work.
Pretty neat stuff, especially when you consider it costs about $10 a month to host and only a few hours to get up online. Of course you should do your homework to decide IF you should even invest in an online platform. Then you need to put a strategy together about how you will use it.
Anyway, the next time you think about your website, an event you are having, how to be more active online, whatever the angle...keep this type of low-cost, high-impact, flexible approach in mind. Then talk with your staff, consultants, website developer...whoever will listen, that you want to experiment with this type of approach.
