Final TechEd scores

In years past, all the TechEd and MEC evaluations have been done on paper forms that were scanned. This gave quick results (last year at MEC, I had my numbers in less than an hour after the session), but if you couldn’t coax attendees into filling out the form, too bad for you. This year, Microsoft extended the process to allow attendees to fill out online evals up to a week after the show. (Denise describes it here). Accordingly, my numbers weren’t fully baked until last night, but now I have the final scores (n=61): overall score was 7.9/9.0, with speaker scores of 8.3 (knowledge) and 8.1 (presentation skills), and a “how does this apply to your work?” rating of 8.0. I’m delighted! These numbers are good enough that I don’t have to go to TechEd China or Malaysia! (That’s a joke, although with MGB looming I’m happy to not have any more extended travel right now).