Imagine a conference where every attendee was learning, a world where what the attendee wondered was more interesting than what the expert presenter knew, and curiosity counted for more than certain knowledge. (With nods to a quote from The Cluetrain Manifesto.) I don't know about you. ...
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Monthly Archives: March 2010
We Are The Problem: We Are Selling Conference Snake Oil
80 percent of what we learn comes from informal learning.* Ironically, 60% to 80% of a conference attendee's time is spent in formal learning, passively listening to a presenter. Unfortunately, 14 days later we only recall 20% of what we hear in those presentations. (John ...
Bob Garfield’s Chaos Scenario
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevancy even less.” ~ General Eric Shinseki, 2003 The Chaos Scenario, by Bob Garfield, is about the historic re-ordering of media, marketing and commerce and traditional business triggered by the revolution in digital technology. It explores examples of adaptation to what is literally ...
Looking For The Right Answer
Life can be a big noisy party with people talking, music playing, glasses clinking, people dancing and the floor shaking. Twitter can be a big noisy stream with people tweeting hordes of information flowing past you in a 24-7 stream. Facebook can be ...
The Conference Session Is Dead
The conference session is not the appropriate shell for most learning experiences. The sixty- or ninety-minute presentation was created for the convenience of the institution, not the learner. The conference session is a triumph of standardization and it is so ingrained in our thinking we still ...
