Comments on: About being disruptive

By: Julius

Julius — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:18:43 +0000

Thanks Edward!

By: Edward - Broward County Records

Edward - Broward County Records — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:59:41 +0000

You know I liked very much how you have called this state when I am sitting at the conference and I hate it, yes, you are right it is a really ” the ultimate masochistic practice “, there is no other definitions.

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By: Julius

Julius — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:12:37 +0000

I completely agree. I love storytelling and being engaged in such emotional ways. My objective is discrediting those who take advantage of the availability of our listening to pitch, or promote things we do not really care about.

Thanks for coming up with that point, it was missing from the post.

By: Paul Caplan

Paul Caplan — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:26:32 +0000

Sure PowerPoint is evil. Sure top-down is non crowd-sourcing. Sure podiums are the new pulpits. Sure presenters are autocrats but let’s leave room for storytelling as well as conversation. Sometimes listening is participative and interactive too.

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By: Dan Thornton

Dan Thornton — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:41:21 +0000

Totally agree, and why I sometimes struggle to create presentations.
Really, I just want to run through my experience, successes and failures fairly quickly, and move onto conversing with the other people in the room about what they really want to know/talk about.

Although it does depend somewhat on the purpose of the event. MeasurementCamp, for example, had some gentle steering of the sessions, in order to lead to a definite outcome – which is definitely needed for that type of event.

By: Julius

Julius — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:57:39 +0000

@Chris I’ll do my best to be there as well

@Walter I’ll definitely have a look

By: walter

walter — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:25:45 +0000

I agree 100% Julius, i guess slide presentation need to be no more than 7-10 minutes, and max other 3-5 minutes for focusing topic from relators, and then a nice discussion session.

See petcha kuthca format about slide session (20-30 slide, max 20 second per slide).

I suggest this event : Sci(Bzaar)net hybrid format between petcha kutcha and barcamp in Milan 17 May.

http://lo-ad.it/index.php/news/138

best regards Walter