Re: COMMON - 4 days, or 5?

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

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Personally, I prefer the Sunday  to Thursday format
- even though I tend to leave early Thursday.

At 04:39 PM 11/19/2001 -0600, jkrueger@andrewscg.com wrote:
> >> 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
>
>
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