Re: [AGA-mcm] Seating at the Banquet

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

Yes, let's just do the lists.

That works very well, now that you have jogged my memory.


sh

--- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:

> Well, as part of my self-appointed duty of making sure
> the speakers each
> have a host next year, I'd like to also institute the
> same practice that NEC
> has at the banquet.  Have sign-up lists for banquet
> tables, one speaker and
> his or her host to a table.  Then people have a chance to
> sit and talk to
> one of the speakers in a more relaxed setting.  If
> sitting with their
> friends is more important than sitting with a specific
> speaker, that's fine
> too.
> 
> This year, I think part of the problem with seating was
> trying to balance
> the need to make the speakers feel honored with wanting
> to "share" them with
> the attendees.  If each speaker has their own personal
> host, they have
> someone looking out for them all weekend.  They have
> "their" table, which is
> an honor in itself.  You don't need to worry about
> "reserved" tables, what
> that means, and who gets to sit there.
> 
> The balance this year was that there was enough "free
> time" for mingling,
> with the more relaxed time schedule, that people could
> seek out and talk
> with speakers at other times during the conference as
> well.  They didn't
> have to only catch up with people at the banquet.
> 
> Karen
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
> To: "AGA Advisory Committee" <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 8:50 AM
> Subject: [AGA-mcm] Seating at the Banquet
> 
> 
> > Following up on a comment someone made about the
> speaker
> > seating at the banquet:
> >
> > GWAPA didn't assign seating at the Banquet. Having too
> many
> > of the speakers at one table, I'm sorry to say, was
> pretty
> > much my doing. Just wrongheaded on that and Erik and
> Karen
> > caught my mistake too late to undo it.
> >
> > I don't know why I didn't remember what I had already
> > learned, spread the speakers around the room.
> >
> > Along that line, though, I suggest that it might be a
> good
> > idea to inform every attendee (including the speakers)
> > well beforehand that they each may sit wherever they
> like
> > at the banquet -- maybe a ten word announcement at the
> > convention opening, intro. Without specifically being
> told
> > so, lots of people keep ask, "Can we sit anywhere?" "Is
> > this front table reserved?" We know the answer, let's
> tell
> > them up front.
> >
> > sh
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