Re: COMMON - 4 days, or 5?

[jkrueger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>> I can understand that Common feels that they are not getting the full bang
for the buck for the last day so it was eliminated.  But when that results in
conference fees rising instead of falling, then I can understand people being
upset!

COMMON runs a 5 day conference -- it begins on Sunday and goes through the end
of day on Thursday...  For many years, we alternated between Sunday through
Thursday and Monday through Friday. We've landed on the Sunday through Thursday
format for several reasons:
 1) It makes it more practical for attendees to get reduced airfare by including
a Saturday night stay.
 2) It lets people get home at the end of the week before the start of the
weekend -- those that need to can even spend part of the day Friday catching up
on office work.

We did run a 4 day conference several years ago in San Antonio, but if you look
at the agenda from Minneapolis, and factor in the fact that the expo is
available on Sunday, you'll see that Sunday is packed full of value, as is
Thursday.

I'm not sure where the myth that COMMON only provides 4 days of value got
started, but it is just that, a myth...

Janet Krueger
COMMON Treasurer