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Re: The future of conference communication

chain — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:35:55 -0000

Nice article..love the pict..

Re: The future of conference communication

Dave Delaney — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:11:13 -0000

Hi Connie. The wiki is a great example of how we can build something ourselves.

It's a great point to include the wiki, without it, I wouldn't have been able to schedule myself last minute to speak, and people would not have known about it.

Thanks so much again. Wifi weak or strong, it was an incredible event.

Cheers,
Dave

Re: The future of conference communication

Connie Crosby — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:42:02 -0000

Hi Dave:
One thing you didn't mention was the use of a wiki to open up organization of the event to ALL participants. People posted sessions they would like to see, others posted sessions they wanted to present, and people posted into a schedule themselves. Sure, it took someone (Jay) taking the initiative to find a location and lead the way, but it was a lot lighter work than a traditional conference.

I worked on a traditional conference held last October that I spent 4 years working on. Compare that to Podcamp which we spent about 3 or 4 months working on. Comparable events, comparable size of groups attending. The difference is palpable.

To be honest, I think this "unconference" style will become more prominent. We just need our conference spaces to catch up since most don't yet have wifi capability for attendees, or not at reasonable rates at least.

Cheers!
Connie