Last week, I wrote a post asking whether or not you would attend a Saturday mixer/networking event. I also posted the question up to Linkedin. It has been closed, but I wanted to talk a little about the results. First, I was blown away by the number of responders, so THANK YOU to all who responded. Second, the results were fairly mixed. I got everything from:
I most definitely would not attend. I think most people view their weekends as sacred…
to:
I attend events on weekends on a regular basis as it tends to free up my weekday evening for other meetings.
After looking through all the answers (49! :)) the results were pretty much what I expected. Overall, the consensus was that weekends were too precious to give up for networking unless it was the beginning or the end of a conference, or it was something really, really cool. Now, I’d love to think that any networking event I planned would qualify as ‘really, really cool’, but I know that it probably doesn’t. So, we have decided to host the event on a different night.
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