Next Generation Conferences
Gary Woodill,
workplace learning today,
Nov 04, 2009
"Conferences need to be reinvented," says Gary Woodill. "The idea of spending 3 days listening to people present their papers and their PowerPoint slides one after the other is excruciating." He links to a proposal on conference reform from Jeff Hurt. It reminds me of my post from a couple years ago on how I would organize a conference (my favourite ideas are the conference-long video hockey tournaments and the 'famous person bearpits'). But you know, as I think about it, the place where conference organization is weakest, and yet most-crucial in these post-modern conferences, is communication to conference-goers. Communication at conferences is usually terrible - that is what I would focus on first.
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