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Conferencing

2 October 2008
Filed under Business, Life, Text

I’m not really sure what “social innovation” means, exactly, but The Feast sounds like a good conference. The organiser has made public his ideas about how conferences should work, and I’ve gotta say I agree with most of his points.

I was at Web Directions South last week, and it was probably as good as a conventional conference can be - the speakers were excellent and the environment reasonably conducive to learning stuff, plus it all ran like clockwork (and the food was good). I can’t help but feel, though, that it’s time to abandon the old conference formula and move towards something more ad-hoc, with much more space for and encouragement of People Talking To One Another, rather than One Person Talking At Everybody Else.

Networking opportunities. We’re sending personal emails to introduce people to each other BEFORE the conference. This gives them the ability to have at least one person to approach and talk to when they come to The Feast.

I really like that idea.

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