Anecdote: Unconferencing: How should we select our Keynote speakers?
Andrew at Anecdote chimes in on the unconferencing meme (Sorry Andrew, in my comment, I wrote Shawn as I have him associated with the site in my addlepated brain). In Anecdote: Unconferencing: How should we select our Keynote speakers?, Andrew sets out some markers of the last year of blog posts questioning the traditional conference speaker and panel models. Particularly the idea of audience simply as listeners, or receptacles to be "filled" by the wisdom of speakers (my words!)
This is the bit that I was most taken with: potential (or the wasting of it.)Sitting in conferences I have often looked around at the audience and thought about the incredible opportunity for discovery which lies within. Unconferencing certainly looks a great model for engaging this potential.
Face to face time is one of the most precious commodities we have. There is value in listening together to one person. There is also the value in each of the listeners and their ideas. We need both.
I left a comment on the Anecdote site as well as to forces that work against the unconference model.
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posted by Nancy White at 9:22 PM
2 Comments:
Hi Nancy,
Great to hear your thoughts and feel your experience on this one. You make a good point about the financial risk of the unconferencing model for the organisers. I guess it comes back to what value is being added...
Love your work.
Warm regards,
Andrew
Andrew, thanks, and likewise I really appreciate the work y'all do at anecdote.
I think the issue here is not just the actual value, but the perception of value. Or the values we use to judge these things.
For example, high price often is associated with value (regardless of reality). Doing ones own work is seen as low value.
So maybe we have to consider what shifts perception as well?
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