Comments on: Curating a conference: young people in a digital world

By: David Wilcox

David Wilcox — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:06:00 +0000

Hi Mas – I’m with you and Tim on what I would agree is blended faciliation. There’s some challenge on how to introduce this to a non-geek audience: making it optional so they don’t feel techno-evangelised?
I agree with Tim we need to do more on curating the coverage – Chie Elliott has done some great summary posts which go a long way to thread the videos and main discussions together.
I personally did less than usual because we had some very capable young reporters there … it was a pleasure to stand back a bit.
Still some way to go in designing a co-creation framework for events, but it is fun learning. Sangeet and WISE KIDS gave us a teerrific opportunity to move things forward.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:23:07 +0000

Hey Mas.

We had a little interaction with the audience from the live-stream and the main room – but admittedly not that much.

Advertising set times for live-stream audience participation would certainly help I think – as sometimes people watching in can be left just hanging on waiting for a chance to get involved – and feeling only partially engaged.

I think you would probably call a well online-offline bridged event ‘blended facilitation’ – and that’s certainly something to work on.

Whilst you say social reporting at events is fairly well covered, what I’ve been trying to explore recently is how to take all the coverage – and make sure there is a legacy of easy-to-use content afterwards, rather than a muddle of Tweets and YouTube clips scattered across the place… and that’s still something that needs more work I think…

By: mas

mas — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:57:31 +0000

The reporting aspect seems pretty well covered at events now – very professional both for the live stuff and the recorded films, videos comments etc.

But I wonder how many people in the audience of an event like this (ie. an audience of non geeks) really get it? I saw they had been talked through twitter, second life and no doubt lots I didn’t see – but maybe audiences would get a better understanding of the potential if there had been some sort of interaction between the audience there and the audience online? ie. moving beyond ‘social *reporting*’ to…. well I don’t know what you’d call it! But perhaps if at events where they are seeking an online audience (and I’m assuming that’s the case rather than just doing it because it can be done), perhaps specific times can be advertised for when there will be interaction between the online and in place audiences.

This wouldn’t have to be just facilitator led but could include people in the actual audience using that time to talk with their own online networks through twitter/facebook/buzz etc. and feed that back too.