The logistics of organizing a seminar such as selecting a suitable date and time are as follows:
1. I would prefer not to call it a seminar but rather an Information Session. People normally pay to attend a seminar while an information session is free.
2. Probe the targeted area to determine the amount of interest in your subject. No point in spending money if the interest is not substantial.
3. Decide on a date and time that would be most suitable to your audience.
4. Book a venue. I suggest that you limit your first gathering to a small number of persons to gauge the interest and keep the costs down. You can always organize more presentations later if the interest is there.
5. You also have to give consideration to the reception of the attendees and provision of refreshments.
6. Prepare and have brochures printed to hand out before and after the presentation.
7. The presenter must be someone who is an experienced public speaker and is able to motivate an audience. If you are not such a person, I suggest that you get a suitable person with experience to act as your presenter.
8. Back up your presentation with slides showing pages from the SFI site. For this you will need a laptop, projector and a screen. Make sure that your projections is readable from all the seats in the venue. Microsoft Office Powerpoint is a good program to use for the preparation and projection of the slides.
The logistics was the easy part of organizing the presentation. Now we come to the preparation of the actual content of the presentation. The person who is going to do this will have to be well experienced in the workings of the SFI system. He must also be able to answer questions that might be posed to him at the end of his presentation. Personally I do not feel that I would be able to attempt the preparation of the content of the presentation until I have been working actively on SFI for at least one year. I think that the SFI Support Team could be of assistance in preparing a model for such a presentation. I have logged a suggestion with SFI for the preparation of such a model and making it available to members. I am still awaiting their response to this suggestion.
If you decide to prepare something on your own, make sure that you have sound knowledge of the subject and prepare yourself for any questions that could possibly be asked.
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The logistics of organizing a seminar such as selecting a suitable date and time are as follows:
1. I would prefer not to call it a seminar but rather an Information Session. People normally pay to attend a seminar while an information session is free.
2. Probe the targeted area to determine the amount of interest in your subject. No point in spending money if the interest is not substantial.
3. Decide on a date and time that would be most suitable to your audience.
4. Book a
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