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Vicki Davis

Listening to the Audience (Twitter) at Web 2.0 Expo: The Balance of Value vs Entertainment - 0 views

www.web-strategist.com/...s-off-for-web-20-expo-speakers

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shared by Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08 - Cached
  • I was watching twitter in real-time to gauge the audience reaction (a best practice I prescribe in how to moderate a panel) and saw two tweets, in particular this one: “I agree with @nickionita…community building panel is a snooze”
  • so I acknowledged them in twitter, and let everyone know we would quickly shift to questions, so the audience could drive the agenda. We received over a dozen questions, and I hope the audience was satisfied, lots of good hard questions from many folks on the ground that are trying to solve these problems: getting management to agree, measuring roi, dealing with detractors, etc. After which, I think we won him over: “Questions made the panel: Love hearing viewpoints from people with boots on the ground”
  • Now, the next panel (Greg Narain, Brian Solis, Stowe Boyd) wasn’t traditional by any sense, it was an experiment, where we crowd-sourced the agenda to the audience –they used Twitter. Greg Narain setup an application where members from the audience could message (@micromedia2) and their tweets (comments, questions, requests, answers, and sometimes jokes made at Scoble’s expense) were seen live on the screen.
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  • he was waiting for that breakthrough insight.
  • Later, I talked to the gentleman who thought the session was negative, and his reason was because he was left out, and didn’t know how to get twitter started.
  • we can tell as people actually took the time to blog about it
  • I think our culture is being overrun by big mouths & squeaky wheels. Not everyone wants to jump into the mosh pit or finds it boring to have useful information presented in a structured format.
  • Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08
     
    How twitter was used to backchannel a conference.
  • Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08
     
    Excellent overview from Jeremiah about the use of twiter to backchannel at a conference. Backchanneling is something I think that is very important, but there is very definitely a best practice. Here were my comments to Jeremiah: "I am a classroom teacher and LOVE the backchannel (they are great for test reviews -- like group notes and more) and won't do a conference presentation without one, that being said, I wouldn't use twitter for it. Like you said, many people don't use twitter or get it. I like to create a "backchannel room" so that it is archived and recruit ahead of time at least two people: 1) A backchannel "moderator" - they answer questions and I call on them several times to ask for their summary of what is going on in the backchannel (this is when I'm the main presenter) 2) A google jockey -- they drop the links I'm talking about in the backchannel chat. I also like to ask the people in the backchannel to share best practice and what they are doing. I've had people comment that the one hour with a backchannel and me presenting was more meaningful than a whole day at a conference. (More compliments to the backchannel, I'm sure.) I've seen backchannels handled very poorly and it was TERRIBLE. It was chaos. And actually downright rude to the speaker. (More like backstabbing than backchanneling.) I've also seen it used well and it was incredible! The archiving of the backchannel gave me rich links as a presenter and participant AND also feedback on the session which I referred to later as the presenter. The backchannel is great -- I just like to use a backchannel ROOM especially for the session (inviting "friends" from around the world who are also watching on ustream) -- and then creating an archived copy of it. I think backchannels are very important and you've hit on the core of what is happening in the evolution of professional development and conferences. "
glen gatin

Elevate 2008 - Reaching New Heights in Educational Videoconferencing - 0 views

www.vcalberta.ca/elevate2008

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shared by glen gatin on 22 Apr 08 - Cached
  • glen gatin on 22 Apr 08
     
    An expensive three day F2F conference on videoconferencing. With registration, gas and jet fuel, accommodation and expenses, easily the cost of a classroom video conferencing unit for some remote school. To say nothing of the environmental impact and loss of productivity. Times XXX conference delegates....hmmmm let see. Holy crap you could have set up a couple of schools!
glen gatin

Connected futures: New social strategies and tools for communities of practice - 0 views

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shared by glen gatin on 03 May 08 - Cached
  • glen gatin on 03 May 08
     
    High priced conference some good links on the page one being Is IT Becoming Extinct? Miguel Guhlin
Vicki Davis

From the Annointed Few to the Collective Many - 0 views

www.learningcircuits.org/0408_wilkins.html

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shared by Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08 - Cached
  • What has not changed significantly, however, is the nature of human interactions in business – email, conference calls, and presentations by experts to non-experts are still the dominant means of interaction
  • the Internet has morphed from a presentation medium to an interactive platform in just a few years
  • a leading web analysis site
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  • more than 50 percent of Americans aged 20-30 years old use Facebook
  • among Americans under the age of 35, social networking and user-generated content sites have overtaken TV as a primary media.
  • “Visitors to MySpace.com and Friendster.com generally skew older, with people age 25 and older comprising 68 and 71 percent of their user bases, respectively.”
  • We’re in the midst of a paradigm shift where individuals are indeed connecting “in ways and at levels that [they] haven’t done before”
  • Workplace communities
  • orkplace communities are designed to solve workplace-related challenges
  • talent management is about finding, developing, and retaining key talent within the organization
  • Ernst & Young, for instance, has a significant presence on Facebook in support of its recruiting efforts
  • Google, Home Depot, Enterprise Rent a Car, and Deloitte also are recruiting using Web 2.0 tools through YouTube videos and even alumni social networks
  • “If companies keep social networks out, they will be doing a significant disservice to their bottom lines
  • Between 2000 and 2020, 75 million Boomers will reach retirement age.
  • The only content service with mass adoption (greater than 50 percent) was Social Networking, and this was only among respondents under the age of 35.”
  • In addition, Millennials are the first generation to spend more hours online per week than watching TV (16.7 vs 13.6).
  • some of the characteristics of Millenials, which included a desire to work in  “[open] and flat organizations” as “part of a tribe.”
  • “heavy use of technology (messaging, collaboration, online learning) as a daily part of their work lives.”
  • robust and active communities will have an easier time recruiting talented Millennials
  • they have opportunities to meaningfully connect to their peers and supervisors.
  • A retiring Boomer who is an expert in a particular field could be an excellent community manager, blogger, or wiki contributor.
  • Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08
     
    Business people and management should read this article about the transformation of business by using workplace communities. "Workplace communities are designed to solve workplace-related challenges" -- they focus on tasks. I would find it interesting to see a business REALLY use technology to change things. Having the business in a business network (OK a NING) and let people tag their posts with the business related PROBLEMS they are having and blog, video, or photograph it-- the tag cloud would tell the business IMMEDIATELY what the problems are in the company. The problem with this model is that there are few corporate executives who REALLY want to know the problems within their organizations. They don't want to be problem solvers, just opportunity creators. However, when managers open their eyes (and I'm a former General Manager myself) and see that two things give business opportunity: problem solving and innovation. And they are directly related. True innovation solves problems. Read this article and think about how you may solve problems using the networks you may now create. If you don't want everyone to know, keep it private and only allow people in your company in.
  • Vicki Davis on 24 Apr 08
     
    Important article about why businesses need to change.
glen gatin

MiT5: Collaboration and Collective Intelligence - 0 views

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shared by glen gatin on 12 Apr 08 - Cached
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      glen gatin on 12 Apr 08
       
      Two essential components of online social networks? Community and content. Where is your content stored in meatspace?
  • glen gatin on 12 Apr 08
     
    Scholz talking about the two things of value in a online social network. Community and content. What amalog BSP are impacted by the move to online life? KYD?
Vicki Davis

Dimdim: Free Live Meeting, Web Conference, Net Meeting, Online Meetings, Online Trainin... - 0 views

dimdim.com

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shared by Vicki Davis on 07 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 07 Apr 08
     
    Opensource web meeting software. Interesting.
  • Vicki Davis on 07 Apr 08
     
    This new platform for allowing people to meet using the internet with free open source software is very exciting!
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