08/09 CONNECT Goal

1. Option to leave them on the tables for pick up after services
2. email contact is optional-clearly marked if wants to be contacted by email
3. build up dessert night as a special event -invite friends because a dessert night is coming. Not an after thought

Reassurance about the cards should increase the amount people who complete them.

Explanation about why we use the cards like: the main purpose of the cards, what is done with the information collected and what is the benefit to the new member in completing this card?

Take 3-5 minutes towards the end of the experience and ask that everyone fill out a anonymous connect card – what they liked/didn’t – what they’d like to see or experience at Journey once a quarter, month or every week. This wouldn’t have to be done every week, but it should help drive feedback and give more info to evaluate.

text in their “card”

2 newbies were with me today to see Kaitlyn on stage, neither filled in a card. Not everyone wants to fill out a card, sometimes they want to be a bit more anonymous.

thx!

I don’t know about you - but I’m not going to live in hell, just to die, and then go to hell.

I agree that filling something out can feel like a commitment. I like the suggestion of doing anonymous reviews of the service once an awhile to keep the Journey informed of how they are impacting (or not impacting) people. As for getting people to fill out a card, I would suggest a prize drawing (something silly and cheap/free)…or taking time at the end to talk about what the cards are used for…tell them about the prayer team…the importance to us of the information and how it gives us feedback…some cool “techie” thing where people can interact with the data online?

The MC could also tell people that they can just put down their name if they don’t want to give us all the info. on their first/second visit. That may get us more people filling out cards who currently aren’t.

I LOVE the text idea. People can do it right during the announcements when others are filling out cards.

The big question is what can we do to get 125 new people to come to the Journey? The Connect team is always interested in hearing ideas of how to better have “one hand in and one hand out”.

— warning this post contains Facebook references, if you don’t know what Facebook is ask Vanessa to explain it —

this idea would work best in conjunction with another idea i had. so before we talk about connect cards first lets talk about:

name tags

i don’t like name tags (see here, and here) (sorry to the taggers out there) i find it very annoying to have to tell someone my name so they can scribble it on a sticky thing that i am suposto stick on my shirt. I know my name / i can write / just let me do it.

so here’s my name tag idea: we make name tags into a sudo- facebook status type thing. You write your name and your status. (this could be further expanded by having other little stickers letting you tag yourself and others, but that’s for later :D ) the point is: its my name, it reflects my personality and that communicates more and allows better interaction then someone forced to ask my name (and say hi) so they can scribble it on a tag.

onto my connect card idea:

once you have spent so much time and energy on your name tag (creatively writing your name and status, choosing your tagging stickers, tagging your friends, etc) you are going to feel very attached to it. So, on the way out we have the name tag wall (a large piece of butcher paper), where old name tags go to die. from there they can be counted and give those that care an indication of who was in attendance.

if we want to get fancier

• if someone wanted to get on the email list they could write their email down on their tag or next to it
• we could have little blank business cards for those who want to include more information for further followup, but not directly write it on their name tag for all to see, stick it under your name tag
• we could have a pile of sharpies so people could draw on the paper around the name tags think wall post-ish

Do like the option of writing your own name, could still have someone at the table greeting. At the teacher supply store they have stickers especially made for those walls charts with the little squares, very cheap, happy faces and such stuff. might work for ‘tagging’. Or have adjective day, or adverb day…. or _______(name) would rather be ___________ (surfing, sleeping …..)day.

sounds like fun

DAWN E. WORSWICK
RESCUEACHILD

How would it work to have people TXT in their Connection Card info?
I like the idea… just need to hear how…
would they all text to Vanessa’s phone?
What info would they really send… name only? probably not address and stuff….?
we would like info that helps us send a follow up letter or email to invite them to a dessert night and make a quick connection point. (address, email address, and phone number do that).

how would this work?

It is so different and just cool

DAWN E. WORSWICK
RESCUEACHILD