Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Sadly, it’s notable how bad most conferences are in this regard when you know the most common phrases you hear are “Is there a network connection?” and “What’s the password?” Such questions are joined nowadays by either “Is there a hashtag for this event?” or “What’s the hashtag?” Neville Hobson sets out the benefits and examples perfectly.
Sara Lacy laid into the rise of even more elitism on display at the TED conference last week, but this quote, from her rant about the TED conference caught my eye: Now when the day’s sessions are done there’s a hierarchy of parties throughout the LA-area with strict lists and security. Cliques within cliques, if you will. One friend I spoke with yesterday told me it was so bad last year he couldn’t even hang out with his friends much of the time. Because that’s what you want when you’ve paid $6,000 to attend an event—to be told your friends
If Christmas is coming up, that can mean a few things, but one of them is that Geraldine Le Meur’s conference, Le Web, is just round the corner. It’s managed to make itself one of the tent-pole conferences in the Web 2.0 year which is not bad going seeing as it is as far away from Silicon Valley as is possible. Why has it got that position? Because unlike other conferences it has built up a mystique around it that makes it attractive. Not just because of the speakers, or the company news that comes out of the conference. Not
The combined forces of Betavine, Lonely Planet and OMTP have come together for another Over the Air event, a very traditional sounding 24 hour hack-a-thon in London with a focus on mobile development. @torgo popped over a Twitter DM to me today and asked if I could make it (it’s on the 25th and 26th of September this year), and naturally I agreed. And have immediately started to plan… something spectacular. Just for reference, in previous events like this I’ve been involved in: Filming a fan version of the season closer to Torchwood (before it aired)… A Diet Coke and
I’m going to take a little bit more than 140 characters to let you all know about the upcoming Media140 conference in London, one of a handful of Twitter based conferences coming online in 2009. Media140 is a short half-day conference on London’s South Bank, and will be focussing on the use of Twitter for news and reporting through a mix of case study examples and panel discussions. Some of the topics for the event will include: Is microblogging and twitter really a news ‘game changer’? How will microblogging change traditional local news sourcing and distribution? Tools of the trade,
As well as the South by Southwest festival in Austin – where I’ll be attending the whole smash of Film, Interactive and Music – March will see me take in some time around the USA attending two other events. The first is the Getting Things Done Summit in San Francisco. While I can only make the first day of this conference (I do need to get to Austin) it’s going to be a great opportunity to learn more about the time/life management system perfected by David Allen. I use some of the principles in GTD, but not all of them
