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Title: Spring 2020 - Community Rail Network online seminars
Post by: grahame on May 15, 2020, 11:30:20
From https://communityrail.org.uk/events-training/events-diary/

* Webinar to help you prepare your entries for the Community Rail Awards, 19 May.  Hosted by Nicky Forsdike.   Fully booked.
* Engaging local media, 30 June, 14.30-15.45, with community rail examples. Hosted by Rob Lawson
* Harnessing social media, 15 July, 14.30-15.45, with community rail examples. Hosted by Nik Schofield.



Title: Re: Spring 2020 - Community Rail Network online seminars
Post by: grahame on June 26, 2020, 05:42:16
From https://communityrail.org.uk/events-training/events-diary/

* Webinar to help you prepare your entries for the Community Rail Awards, 19 May.  Hosted by Nicky Forsdike.   Fully booked.
* Engaging local media, 30 June, 14.30-15.45, with community rail examples. Hosted by Rob Lawson
* Harnessing social media, 15 July, 14.30-15.45, with community rail examples. Hosted by Nik Schofield.



"Engaging local media" now fully booked too - has been for at least a couple of days.  I have to wonder where the limit on viewers comes from, or whether Community Rail Network should be running duplicate sessions.  Extra web meeting sessions are cheaper that extra train carriages  ;D


Title: Re: Spring 2020 - Community Rail Network online seminars
Post by: ChrisB on June 26, 2020, 15:27:35
If it's Zoom, you buy meeting space for 100. Then pay extra to up to 500 and more again for a max of 1,000. The add-on for 500 is £60-odd per month, so if you are on limited budgets, this can add up.


Title: Re: Spring 2020 - Community Rail Network online seminars
Post by: TaplowGreen on June 26, 2020, 16:36:42
If it's Zoom, you buy meeting space for 100. Then pay extra to up to 500 and more again for a max of 1,000. The add-on for 500 is £60-odd per month, so if you are on limited budgets, this can add up.

I think the question must be asked............Ooooooooooooooooooooooooo's gonna pay for it?  ;)


Title: Re: Spring 2020 - Community Rail Network online seminars
Post by: grahame on June 26, 2020, 17:29:52
If it's Zoom, you buy meeting space for 100. Then pay extra to up to 500 and more again for a max of 1,000. The add-on for 500 is £60-odd per month, so if you are on limited budgets, this can add up.

I think the question must be asked............Ooooooooooooooooooooooooo's gonna pay for it?  ;)

Indeed ... the average salary in this country is £30,000 per annum ... £140 per day ... and it takes somewhere between 5 and 10 times the length of a training session to prepare material. Yes, I know that's a ball park figure and can vary wildly.   

It strikes me you have the investment of producing material, and also the admin setup of managing bookings, etc - much easier now with things like Eventbrite, but still not inconsiderable, and it seems a shame having made all that setup investment not to run a matinee as well as an evening show, or however you would define it, where the repeat cost would be a tiny fraction (Option a).   First run costs a lot then you just turn the handle tuning as you go - that's simplified, but it's a career / business lesson I followed with some success!

Sure, extra £60 per month is a big step up from £10 for 100.  But you are looking at an organisation account with a salaried team, not volunteers.  In perspective, average annual salary based on that £30k above is £700 per week, or monthly wage bill of around £50,000 (and that's before employment taxes and cost of providing working environment) across 17 staff.  Option b is a bigger session with this extra cost £60 cost

I would personally commend the idea of running each session (for they are mainly training sessions not interactive meetings) multiple times - option a. The setup investment is there - "please turn the handle not ones but perhaps 2, 3 or even 4 times".  Groups may be smaller, but that would give better opportunity for delegate interaction, as well as allowing everyone who was keen enough to want to attend to do so.



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