Pattern: PiggyBacking
Pattern: PiggyBacking
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Problem
A fledgling network needs to encourage face to face attendance at a meeting by an increasing and widening audience. Although potential participants share a common interest, it is only part of their role and they are limited in the time they can commit and cannot justify coming to a standalone meeting.Context
This applies to any situation where a subset of a community share a common interest. It may not apply if the group who need to meet do not have a wider shared interest.Solution
Organise the meeting to coincide with a larger event of the wider community that potential participants are likely to attend. This adds value to the network event and makes it more likely that people will attend. It may also provide the added benefit that the host event will take on some administrative activities.
Related Patterns
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The Higher Education Academy works with institutions, individuals and groups and has formed many networks in order to coordinate the work of those groups and discuss and debate. [http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/networks] This has also been observed in the HCI Educator's Workshop piggybacking on the HCI Conference for many years until established in its own right. "Initiated by the BCS Interaction SG (previously the BCS HCI Specialist Group) in 2001 as an informal workshop amongst HCI educators, the workshop has since grown into a small conference with strong participation from various national and international HCI organisations". [First CfP: HCI Educators 2009 - Playing with our Education, http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/node/3320]* Verification (Solutions that were derived from this pattern)
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Piggyback image courtesy of Isaac Leedom, Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/risus_in_silva/2737225639/ Higher Education Academy - Disciplines and Networks , http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/networks. Last accessed Dec 2008. Specialist HCI Group of the British Computer Society, First CfP: HCI Educators 2009 - Playing with our Education, http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/node/3320. Last accessed Dec 2008.Licensing
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