Create event: Attendee engagement

Event creation is organized into five steps (tabs). This section covers the fourth step, where you can manage event insights and user outreach.

Select the fourth tab: Attendee engagement

User Engagement

“User Engagement” features have been disabled system wide and cannot be enabled. Please disregard this section.

Event Insights

Collect user insight after the event day. For events using the Localist ticketing system, the platform will send registrants an email with a short survey. 

Important! This feature is enabled by default. If you do not want to collect event insights after the event, you can disable this by unchecking the insight options. Click “save” once you have configured your event insights settings.

The feature is limited to the 5 standard questions and currently does not support custom questions. Learn more at Localist’s Event Insights webpage.

1. How would you rate this event?
2. How likely are you to attend another event from this group?
3. Did you connect with someone at this event that you didn’t know before?
4. How likely are you to recommend events from this community to a friend or colleague?
5. How informative was this event?

To view insights, go to the event’s editing dashboard, click the “metrics” dropdown menu and “insights”.

After you have enabled or disabled your Event Insight settings click 'Save and Continue'.

Event Promotion

When using the system’s built-in registration tool, you can keep your attendees informed. Select the Event Promotion tool to send notices to everyone on the attendee list via email or social media.

Registrants will automatically receive a reminder the day before the event. This reminder is not customizable and will include the essential event details. This feature is to send your registrants basic updates and reminders.

1. 1. Scroll down to the “Event Promotion” section. Click on “New Post” dropdown menu to see your promotional options.
      1. 1. Bulk Schedule Posts: Allows you to download a CSV template, add your needs, and upload to bulk schedule posts.
         2. Twitter/LinkedIn: You can post the event directly to Twitter. Before being able to post directly from Localist you will need to authorize the Twitter account you want to post from.
         3. Email: Allows you to send event registrants an email update by filling out the email form.
            1. Emails are text based only and does not support editable layouts or images.
            2. Once scheduled, you cannot edit the email. You will need to delete the scheduled email and draft a new one to replace it.
            3. There is no preview option.
            4. The email sender is the admin who schedules the post.
               i.w., if King Triton schedules an update, the users will receive the email from “King Triton (kingtriton@ucsd.edu)” and not a generic UC San Diego Calendar or Group email account.

If you would like to send robust updates and event info, we recommend using MyEmma to send your outreach. If you don’t have a MyEmma subaccount, please visit Tools, Platforms, and Services and contact servicedesk@ucsd.edu to get started.

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