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6th July 2005 at 21:39

Unconferencing

Over at Johnnie Moore’s site, he’s posted a podcast conversation between himself, Chris Corrigan, and Rob Paterson that you should download and listen to, it’s about conferences and the fact that they’re largely boring and unhelpful.

It’s a good listen, and it’s hard to fault much of what they say, except for one key thing, they don’t mention content at all. Presentations are only as good as the content that’s in them, that’s a quite an omission.

Here’s a few tips for better conferences:

  • Very specific speaker briefs
  • Shorter presentations
  • Tell the speakers that their slides will not be hand-outs, that way they wont need to clutter them.

Get the content right, then, and only then, do you start looking at the other stuff….!

 

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