Will the CSS Summit be similar to the online <head> conference that was held last October? Will Adobe Connect be used to manage the presentations?
I attended <head> last fall, and loved the format! Adobe Connect made it easy to interact with the speakers and meet others through the chat facility. What really helped was to:
1. have someone monitor the chat, to pass on questions to the speaker, It's hard for a speaker to present, and manage chat at the same time. 2. have someone available to manage technical issues the speaker/audience might have
If Adobe Connect is used for the conference, can you consider making the chat for the presentations available to the conference attendees? I realize there's a lot of work involved with creating a video, but having a copy of the chat is really helpful.
If not a video, have you considered making podcasts available?
e4h
· 6 months ago
Hi Deborah!
We are still in negotiations with our service provider, so I can't name the company just yet. Let's just say the CSS Summit online delivery will be very similar (if not exactly the same) as the <head> conference last year.
I attended <head> last fall, and my partner, Christopher Schmitt (@teleject on twitter) was a presenter. We both picked up on the difficulty speakers had in monitoring the conversation while presenting, so we plan to have a moderator to answer small questions on the fly and gather up the "big" questions for presenters to answer at the end of their presentations. Managing the technical issues will fall to someone else as well.
Making the chat available is a good idea, we will definitely look into it. I also want to pull in at least one liveblogger to blog and/or tweet the conference in real time.
Thank you so much for your mindful observations and great questions!
redcrew
· 6 months ago
Sounds good! The <head> conference was amazing last year. With parallel tracks I had a hard time deciding which session to attend. I can't imagine the amount of work it took to organize the event with so many presenters around the world.
If you're looking for someone to live blog, I can check with a colleague who live-blogged at our Internet User Experience conference in the spring. I tweeted the conference sessions and managed our give-aways with questions on Twitter.
Small world! I attended Chris's twitterview with Karlyn yesterday.
Deborah
redcrew
· 6 months ago
Forgot to ask, any plans for presenters to make their presentation slides available?
e4h
· 6 months ago
We're going to select our liveblogger & livetweeter via a contest, just to make the process more fun. I will keep your suggestion in mind however, as I bet we'll have no problem finding someone to livetweet. Finding a liveblogger may be a little harder. :)
We round up conference slides when we can (we just finished doing the InControl Conference in Cincinnati). Not all speakers are forthcoming on this issue, for a variety of reasons. We will post links to the presentations if/when they are available!
redcrew
· 5 months ago
Ari,
Was there a contest for the live blogger and live tweeter?
e4h
· 5 months ago
Hey! We decided to have the contest just be for a free admission to the Summit, and we also increased our donation to cota.org based on the contest participation!
We've got some folks that are going to livetweet anyway, so we've got the backchannel covered. See you at the Summit!
e4h
· 6 months ago
Here are some tech specs, including a link to test your system before the Summit.
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Will the CSS Summit be similar to the online <head> conference that was held last October? Will Adobe Connect be used to manage the presentations?
I attended <head> last fall, and loved the format! Adobe Connect made it easy to interact with the speakers and meet others through the chat facility. What really helped was to:
1. have someone monitor the chat, to pass on questions to the speaker, It's hard for a speaker to present, and manage chat at the same time.
2. have someone available to manage technical issues the speaker/audience might have
If Adobe Connect is used for the conference, can you consider making the chat for the presentations available to the conference attendees? I realize there's a lot of work involved with creating a video, but having a copy of the chat is really helpful.
If not a video, have you considered making podcasts available?
We are still in negotiations with our service provider, so I can't name the company just yet. Let's just say the CSS Summit online delivery will be very similar (if not exactly the same) as the <head> conference last year.
I attended <head> last fall, and my partner, Christopher Schmitt (@teleject on twitter) was a presenter. We both picked up on the difficulty speakers had in monitoring the conversation while presenting, so we plan to have a moderator to answer small questions on the fly and gather up the "big" questions for presenters to answer at the end of their presentations. Managing the technical issues will fall to someone else as well.
Making the chat available is a good idea, we will definitely look into it. I also want to pull in at least one liveblogger to blog and/or tweet the conference in real time.
Thank you so much for your mindful observations and great questions!
If you're looking for someone to live blog, I can check with a colleague who live-blogged at our Internet User Experience conference in the spring. I tweeted the conference sessions and managed our give-aways with questions on Twitter.
Small world! I attended Chris's twitterview with Karlyn yesterday.
Deborah
We round up conference slides when we can (we just finished doing the InControl Conference in Cincinnati). Not all speakers are forthcoming on this issue, for a variety of reasons. We will post links to the presentations if/when they are available!
Was there a contest for the live blogger and live tweeter?
We've got some folks that are going to livetweet anyway, so we've got the backchannel covered. See you at the Summit!