Comments on: Conference burn out http://strange.corante.com/2006/10/02/conference-burn-out Picking out patterns in the chaos Wed, 16 May 2012 20:58:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jeffrey McManus http://strange.corante.com/2006/10/02/conference-burn-out#comment-2215 Jeffrey McManus Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:08:54 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2006/10/02/conference-burn-out#comment-2215 Sometimes when I think I'm tired of speaking at conferences I take a deep breath and realize that I could instead have the misfortune of having to do, you know, actual work. :) Signed, I only get five minutes to demo my product on Tuesday Sometimes when I think I’m tired of speaking at conferences I take a deep breath and realize that I could instead have the misfortune of having to do, you know, actual work. :)
Signed,

I only get five minutes
to demo my product on Tuesday

]]> By: Suw http://strange.corante.com/2006/10/02/conference-burn-out#comment-2214 Suw Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:36:29 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2006/10/02/conference-burn-out#comment-2214 Jan, I really appreciate that fact that you listened to my points and that you felt able to change things round a bit. I felt the session went really well, actually, with some great quesitons afterwards and I would like to hope that the other attendees got more out of it in that format. But props to you for sorting it all out so painlessly. Perhaps I might suggest that if you do BlogTalk again next year, you could actually let people choose what sort of session they want to do, be it 1 hour, half an hour, Q&A or any other format. It's not that I don't believe there are good alternatives to the 1 hour traditional session format, but I was shocked to discover that I'd been scheduled at 10 mins without anyone asking me beforehand. Jan, I really appreciate that fact that you listened to my points and that you felt able to change things round a bit. I felt the session went really well, actually, with some great quesitons afterwards and I would like to hope that the other attendees got more out of it in that format. But props to you for sorting it all out so painlessly.

Perhaps I might suggest that if you do BlogTalk again next year, you could actually let people choose what sort of session they want to do, be it 1 hour, half an hour, Q&A or any other format. It’s not that I don’t believe there are good alternatives to the 1 hour traditional session format, but I was shocked to discover that I’d been scheduled at 10 mins without anyone asking me beforehand.

]]> By: JanSchmidt http://strange.corante.com/2006/10/02/conference-burn-out#comment-2213 JanSchmidt Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:04:58 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2006/10/02/conference-burn-out#comment-2213 Suw, thanks for the feedback - while preparing the conference we were aiming to provide different formats for the sessions/slots, because for some presentations a plenary q&a would be preferable, while for others we thought the "open space" approach would be better. Thankfully you spoke out to me, so we were able to change/adapt the organization of the sessions. I thought your presentation went very well (and was indeed better suited for a longer presentation time with plenary discussion). I hope you will have had some time to rest before the party later tonight. Suw, thanks for the feedback - while preparing the conference we were aiming to provide different formats for the sessions/slots, because for some presentations a plenary q&a would be preferable, while for others we thought the “open space” approach would be better.
Thankfully you spoke out to me, so we were able to change/adapt the organization of the sessions. I thought your presentation went very well (and was indeed better suited for a longer presentation time with plenary discussion). I hope you will have had some time to rest before the party later tonight.

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