ESCAPE VELOCITY

1 - Nathan
I am quite surprised by your post. As far as I can remember speakers @LS who have a blog have always posted the results of the eval, is not something new. Why does this bother you now ? Just curious....

2 - @5 - Roberto, what part of "I'm not complaining or judging. I'm just a little surprised by it." wasn't clear? I'm not BOTHERED. I just don't recall ever having seen it, and I was surprised that anyone decided they should be made public.

A quick google reveals that this was fairly common last year. I guess I simply didn't notice then, since I didn't attend the conference.

I'm really the last person on earth in a position to gripe about other people bragging. Hell, I like to tell people that the T stands for "The"

3 - @5 - Roberto, I have spoken at the past 8 Lotuspheres (even before the amazing Best Practices track that Rocky created got more non-IBMers speaking) and have never posted my numbers. Just seems like ego back-patting to me.

4 - I don't ever recall posting my evaluation results either. I was also a bit surprised, but different strokes for different folks (or horses for courses, I guess, if you are feeling British today).

5 - @1 - Rob, you lemming.

Like I said, no complaint. Just wondering why.

@2 - I have. I think they release them by track, because I've only gotten anything about my BP session, not the infrastructure track one where I was on the panel for Notes 8 beta customers. Also the BoF that Chris and I did hasn't come back yet. (Though I'm not listed as a speaker there, so I'd just be waiting for Chris to tell me anyway.)

6 - Nathan, have you received your evaluation scores? Who is suppose to send it out? I haven't received a thing, and I know most people did fill out the form after my session (I wasn't allowing them out the door without giving me a form...).

7 - Well, I can't comment for anyone else, but in my case it is simply the continuation of an ongoing story on the blog. I posted that I was giving the session, I posted some details about the content, I posted about my uncertainty over how well it might have gone, and then I posted that it had apparently gone quite well. Why post the details? Dunno, mostly because I thought it was interesting. I've never seen session evals before.

In any event, my blog tends to be more "personal" than technical or business-oriented, so it often winds up being a conversation between me and my (imaginary?) audience.

I'm pretty sure there's also an inertia or lemming/follow-the-leader thing happening here. As far as I can remember, Alan Bell posted his results first, then others followed. I'm not sure what I'd have posted (I know I'd have posted the results in some way or other, but maybe not to any great detail?) if I hadn't read Alan's post first.

8 - It is an ego thing really. I saw a bunch of evaluation summary blog posts last year, google for Lotusphere 2006 evaluations and you will see them. Based on that I kind of thought it was normal. I didn't post the raw numbers, but I was messing with the 3d bar chart options in OpenOffice.org and thought they looked bloggably interesting.

9 - Julian is probably too modest to post the scores from our ID212 session, but the ratings were fantastic. Very proud to have co-presented with him.

As for CS101, we didn't collect (or at least didn't score) the evals from that session (the panel discussion). It would be hard for anyone to get anything meaningful out of the scores for a panel, other than that we know the format works and will do it again. We didn't modify the eval form to say "who has the most obnoxious shirt on", but you would have won that hands down

Adelita, I haven't yet seen any scores from any BoF sessions. I'll check into it, though it's a couple of weeks before the track manager debrief call.

Last, as to your original post, Nathan, I think it's a little bit of bragging rights, and maybe a bit of an acknowledgement that filling out those forms is actually a useful exercise.