Streamline Introductions

Sorry, I was responding to what I got in an email digest and missed like half of this thread. I also really like Ethan's small groups idea. As he points out, it's much easier to remember the names and some details about a dozen people rather than 100. Also, when you're engaging directly with each other, rather than just broadcasting your info, people are more likely to ingest and process what's being said, rather than starting to tune out after the 50th intro. As someone who's been coming regularly, I fall in the 26% who is anxious to get through the intros. But I would be much more interested in directly interacting with new people every week and actively chatting with them. Maybe as a group you could also be tasked with deciding together one thing to report back to the room as a whole, whether that's the results of the survey question or some kind of icebreaker.

I like the idea of small groups. I don't think I want to listen to 150 people give a rapid fire intro that is not really in sentence form. Sounds difficult to process.

I enjoy hearing the answers to the poll questions, but I do get antsy as it goes on, and I would like the evening to end a little earlier, overall.

Transportation Camp is an unconference held in many cities each year. The one in NYC has 700 people. We do introductions. Still.

It's Name + Org + 3 words.
And it's easy to pinpoint who you want to chat with later.
700 people. It seems to take just as short as Hack Night's current format.

I'm ambivalent about the "name, org, three words" idea, but I do wish we would cut back on how often we ask/answer questions during intros.

As Karl said, it's a trade-off, and right now I'd be more inclined to have 100 minutes of devoted working time and no question rather than 90 minutes of devoted working time and a question.

I'm happy to try name + org + 3. I'm also curious about the small groups intros. How about we experiment with a couple things?

I really like Ethan's idea!

Hey there! I started a new thread encouraging multiple experiments with ways to use intro team. Basically, we'd have volunteers run intros a few different ways and discuss on Slack.

Also, I really really like Kevin's idea of using a Google doc and slack channel for intros and networking. If people could post name, org / deets, and interested in meeting, than they might do better with three words, or meeting someone new in a different intro form.