Stop typing for a minute
I spent yesterday afternoon at the Digital Tipping Conference.
One thing that caught my attention during the conference was the number of people who were sitting in the audience typing away on their laptops.
Not to mention the people awkwardly hammering away on the keypads of Blackberries and iPhones.
It seems live blogging and twittering are obviously now an accepted part of conferences.
Which is probably the conference equivalent of people taking mobile phone photos at concerts.
Thankfully I don't go to as many conferences as I do concerts.
But I can't help thinking that these people are not getting the most out of their conference experience because they're too focused on commenting on or recording what they're seeing.
Labels: blackberry, digital, iPhone, twitter
posted by Stan Lee at 12:37 am
10 Comments:
In some ways I agree, but as a conference typist, the main reason for using my laptop is to avoid losing notebooks, forgetting pens etc.
Or ending up with pages of notes I'll never get around to reading again.
Plus if I do want to blog about it later, I have everything ready to copy and paste...
But usually most people now make their material available anyway, meaning the laptop can stay in the bag.
Mac. Mac. Mac. And...what's that in the corner? Mac.
Niccccceee... :D
Finally, the world seems to be turning away from The Dark Side.
@Stan – I don’t get to many conferences at all and my previous work wasn’t really conference aligned but the few I have worked at as an exhibitor in the last 12 months have struck me as odd.
They are very rigid and the organisers control things very tightly. A lot of the time attendees get the presentation but not much else when they hear a speaker. The organisers put the presentations on a USB key (slides only, not any more notes). Why not get it on the net as an every lasting resource?
Not sure if marketing and social media conferences are much difference but would hazard an unqualified guess that they are similar? If I am on the right track then maybe these guys are taking notes on laptops and commentating because what the conference organisers are providing just doesn’t deliver the right value.
Waddyareckon?
It's the curse of the digital camera, where people live their life through the lens (I noticed this a lot in Africa on safari, when people experienced the entire trip from behind the camera). Luckily they were in other cars.
In the case of conferences, it's a bit more pragmatic and it means you can skip out of the boring bits.
The thing I really detest is people typing on laptops in meetings being seen as standard practice.
Listening. It's hardly old fashioned.
The 2 Dans seem to have opposing opinions. I kinda agree with them both.
Jeffrey sadly that pic wasn't from my conference. It was a bunch of ugly powerpoints done on PCs. Endless clicking back and forth. Way too many points on each slide. You know the deal.
And I'm glad I'm not in the same meetings as Kate!
HOWEVER - Heckling via Twitter was something I discovered during the conference. i can recommend it wholeheartedly!
http://landofmeg.blogspot.com/2009/02/definitions-of-now.html
Yeah, just like I don't get the full experience of a lecture when I set there on Facebook! ;]
I have used CoverItLive as a live blogging platform for a while now.
There is a real difference between the slides that are made available and the delivery of the presentation. By live blogging I aim to capture a bit of both, and add my own thoughts into the mix.
Does this mean I miss something? Perhaps. But I am astute enough to know that when a good idea presents itself, I want to make sure I grab it for future use/exploration. After all, if I am paying for a conference ticket, I want to get some return on that investment ;)
How many of them actually spoke to one another I wonder?
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