Face-to-face conferences aren’t what they used to be and that’s ok with me.   How many times have you gone to a face-to-face conference in another city where you rub shoulders with a lot of strangers, listen to a bunch of talking heads with obscure PowerPoint slides in cold dark rooms, make a few acquaintances at the reception, give your talk to a group that may or may not get what you’re talking about, and come home with a printed proceedings that goes on the bookshelf? My days of passive participation are over and done with: For me, the reason to go to a

We worked with Lorna Candy and the team at Incisive Media to help them provide more networking opportunities for delegates and speakers before and during the conference, online and offline, using different tools. During the next conference session, we grouped the topics but did not add titles to them. During the conference session after lunch, having asked the This is a brief report and things we learned about the experimental ‘knowledge networking’ and ‘social reporting’ facilitation work done at Online Information 2008 , co-authored between David Wilcox and Emma Wallace and me.

By coincidence, two articles on the issue of copyright in journalism have landed in my inbox today: one by Joel Postman in socialmediatoday concerning the legal and ethical issues of live tweeting from conferences and events (where Twitterers effectively publish a portion of the speaker’s presentation), and the other From Steve Myers at Poynter Online , about a recent case of an image from Flickr sourced by the Chicago Tribune. The government will not rule on what is or isn’t fair use, leaving it the judgment of the individual, and in some cases, the courts to make the ultimate

Take a look at StumbleUpon or Grant’s Flickr photos (“how we plan our vacations”) More on the conference: see #bs7im on Twitter Tags: Conference Notes #bs7i Sarah Heal from Information Leadership is talking on the use of Web 2.0 tool in business ... based on their experiences using them, what they

conference in Boston, since I haven’t been much online, hanging out in my usual external social software spaces. For now though, I thought I would get things started with this upcoming series of blog posts by combining them with other things that have been happening and which I have also found a rather fascinating read from elsewhere and not related to the conference (That’s been part of the online catchup I have been doing so far as well…). A bunch of folks out there may have been wondering where I have been hiding in the last couple of days, after I came back from a wonderful week at the Enterprise 2.0

Conference in Las Vegas used it to share resources and for back-channel chatting during the conference: [link] Tags: flickr twemes mashups Event design tagging Technology Del.icio.us It’s really great when special-purpose websites are mashed together.  The effect is multiplicative.  For

conference in Boston, here is Part II, related to networking , where I would like to cover some further thoughts on what that experience was like during the course of last week. And it looks like I haven’t been the only one; while doing my usual Twitter catchup this morning (Specially under the #e2conf hash tag), I noticed how plenty of those folks who were at the same conference were having post-conference fatigue symptoms, hehe, looking for a much needed "break" to get things going as well. Continuing further with this series of blog posts gathering some more highlights from the recent Enterprise 2.0

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Why do I feel so alone on a travel site like Dopplr , while I’m constantly meeting people all over the world at a photo site like Flickr ? ve stuck some of my photography from Flickr on there. What makes this community so great is the groups you can join – people create groups based on their interests - such as animation , conferences , random projects . I’m If you’re going to have any success building healthy, active and engaging social communities online, you’ve got to be endlessly curious about how they work. Why is it that some communities gain new

Conference Back Channel Clay Shirkey on back channels at conferences Jon Garfunkle on the backchannel at conferences (from a blog post comment) Barry Dahl talks about the “ back channel ” at conferences Photo Credit: Flickr creative commons from A DM Tweet today caused me to go and look and see what resources I’ve posted on the blog about back channel work.  For me,  back channel refers to a number of things that fall into two broad categories: