Event Amplification Using Social Media

briankelly (Steve Boneham): Steve Boneham to progress slides shortly whaa : Anyone to "discuss" with...?

eventamplifier : I am certainly here (and on Twitter) but I am sure there are other viewers as well

briankelly (Steve Boneham): Is anyone moving through the slides? I'm not, but they are moving???

briankelly (Steve Boneham): Also, I'm not really briankelly

whaa : steve - i'll click fwd through slides... Do i grab control?

briankelly (Steve Boneham): Hi whaa (steve here)

whaa : oh, i can't move the slides anymore

briankelly (Steve Boneham): hopefully turned off remote control so i can drive it now...

whaa : Back to being the powerless remote watcher... :-(

briankelly (Steve Boneham): think you can view pres independently, just not the live view - search for bk on authorstream

whaa : Watching slides, listening to audio rather effective

mhawksey : ;-)

briankelly (Steve Boneham): http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/briankelly-549451-event-amplification-using-social-media/

whaa : would be nice if audio was a bit better though

briankelly (Steve Boneham): hi mhawksey - your twitter subtitler getting a shout out from brian :-)

briankelly (Steve Boneham): no lapel mic - audio straight into laptop - so should be easy to improve

whaa : Yep. Another example where small tweaks would make considerable improvements

whaa : How far ahead are we in "our sector" than others in HE?

briankelly (Steve Boneham): as in, usage at non-tech academic conferences?

whaa : yep

whaa : Esp. ones where they rely on delegate fees to pay for the conference

briankelly (Steve Boneham): been a while, but those I'm still in touch with say its not common (yet). See the THE article 'don't be arfaid to share'?

whaa : is Brian saying he's a PLANT ?!

briankelly (Steve Boneham): fire alarm... everyone out!

briankelly (Steve Boneham): Oh, just a test ;-)

whaa : Like that quote... Steve - steal it!

briankelly (Steve Boneham): done!

andypowe11 : i think there's also a role for someone to simply 'host' the virtual side of the event - a virtual chair if you like

eventamplifier : lol :-P

andypowe11 : welcoming delegates - telling them what is happening in the room, etc.

whaa : Good point Andy.

eventamplifier : That is effectively what I often end up doing as part of the live commentary

whaa : Organisers need to decide if amplification is an "added benefit" or "integral part" of conf/event etc

andypowe11 : @eventamplifier - yes, i know... i just didn't see it in the list of things brian talked about :-)

eventamplifier : True

eventamplifier : The quote came from this presentation by the way: http://prezi.com/gpecjde1gqhp/event-amplifier/

andypowe11 : @whaa my personal view is that the notion of 'amplification' promotes the primacy of the f2f part of the event - in practice we are increasingly just seeing 'hybrid' events that mix real and virtual

andypowe11 : ...and that we would see better events if we always approached them as being 'hybrid' from the outset - rather than saying, "here's a f2f event that we can amplify" ??

briankelly (Steve Boneham): interested in idea of remote participants as 1st class citizens, Think I tend to present differently to f2f & remote...

briankelly (Steve Boneham): (btw, for others in chat - i'm not brian - i'm steve from netskills driving the slides while bk talks)

whaa : @andy Really like your insight re. amplification vs hybid

whaa : @steve 'hybird' perhaps caputures our discussions re. 'blended seminars' ?

andypowe11 : i think the business model issues are important - but hidden in academia currently because so many events are free to attend (i.e. paid for by orgs such as jisc / eduserv / etc.) - amplification of paid-for events is different and you often have to pay to be in the amplified stream

briankelly (Steve Boneham): Yep - and reminds me that we might need to have some guidelines for remote presenters to remote audiences...

whaa : Yeah I questioned that earlier. In my experience, many subject based conferences rely on x number of paying delegates to be viable

andypowe11 : note: this is a good example of where the amplified discussion has become fractured across authorstream and twitter - this is the kind of thing that needs managing/chairing (sorry, no criticism intended - i know it is hard to do)

briankelly (Steve Boneham): Brian looking at this chat panel "Oh my God, what's andy said?" ;-)

whaa : Think today is rather "organic" !

andypowe11 : also... brian has stepped away from the mic - so no idea what is happening currently :-)

eventamplifier : A lot of the experiments and developments now are more to do with how to combine the tools in userfriendly ways to create a better experience, so I think we will see this improve

briankelly (Steve Boneham): In room discussion leading to coffee in a moment - sorry to be neglecting remote attendees

briankelly (Steve Boneham): Was a surprise that was doing this, so sorry its improvised!

briankelly (Steve Boneham): Any questions for Brian?

whaa : DRAT ... gotter go to a meeting. At least I can close video but leave authorstrem open to catch up on discussion later

briankelly (Steve Boneham): Brian bringing up fragmentation issue, addressing with search, aggregation and archiving

briankelly (Steve Boneham): ...plus reflective posts of attendees

briankelly (Steve Boneham): Find watching remotely with others, then discussing after useful forreflection

briankelly (Steve Boneham): is there a role for local hubs to facilitate remote attendance 'at' events?

briankelly (Steve Boneham): (that's my q, not brian's)

andypowe11 : for the last eduserv symposium there was at least one remote 'hub' that i was aware of - where a group of people (at sheffield I think) got together to watch the remote stream

andypowe11 : i think that is an interesting model

eventamplifier : In terms of staff training I think that would be a useful model

eventamplifier : often getting companies to allow staff time to follow online from work is difficult

briankelly (Steve Boneham): plan to try it with some netskills seminars. remote pres & follow upactivities, facilitated locally

briankelly (Steve Boneham): in external speakers, presenting remotely, then us helpinng with activities for 'hubs' providing support to do somepractical foolow up stuff

briankelly (Steve Boneham): Apologies for my typing in that last mesg - hope it makes somesense?!