What is THE #1 'Take Away' from Event Camp '10 ?
First, let's applaud the efforts of ALL the contributors of Event Camp! Geat time and we hope it was immensely purposeful too!
We're hoping this social exercise can act as a natural extension of the great conversations we started and continued live at #EC10. But an event is only as good as the actual take aways and new relationships formed. The moments, topics, and techniques that inspired you live and have motivated you to act on this new knowledge.
So, let's hear it! Very simply, what was the #1 'Take Away' from Event Camp '10 and How do YOU plan on using it?
Log in via Twitter below, propose your 'Take Away' or vote on your faves! Then go share it with your world and all the #eventprofs you know. And of course make sure you follow @EventCamp too!
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Interesting Proposals
Attendees Have Knowledge and should be Leveraged!
Live and Virtual Events COMPLIMENT Each Other, Not COMPETE with Each Other
Shared Content to Virtual Audience Leads to Conversion to Physical Attendee
Attendees Have Knowledge and should be Leveraged!
Several presenters leveraged the attendees and those sessions were the most engaging, involved and knowledge rich sessions. Jeff Hurt's moderated session and Samuel J. Smith's Fishbowl session both utilized the audience/attendees and that led to a richer conversation, more stories, more networking opportunities and more education.
Event Camp 2010 was a Success!! Best Part? Meeting YOU!!!
Event Camp 2010 was quite a success. The best part was meeting all the #Eventprofs. Of course the exchange of ideas, information and insight was very exciting with Events and Social Media being the focus, but meeting a like minded community face to face was the BEST take away!
Live and Virtual Events COMPLIMENT Each Other, Not COMPETE with Each Other
I constantly preach that you must gather, engage, and interact with your audience in order to have a successful event. When virtual events started gaining popularity, many in the event community turned a blind eye or became scared that they would replace live events. Yet I have always said that virtual...
Our Community is Fantastic !
My number #1 takeaway is: Our community is fantastic! Besides all the great virtual meetings with my awesome eventcamp team before the event, the sponsors, the attendees, the online community and the virtual community, I am amazed at how we have such a powerful and dynamic community brewing. I was floored...
The End of F2F...NOT!
Social Media will not replace Face-to-Face events, it will create them. @tracibrowne Samuel Smith get's the credit for coining this gem of a phrase...and this is just the tip of his iceberg of wisdom @samueljsmith
Shared Content to Virtual Audience Leads to Conversion to Physical Attendee
During #ec10 we witnessed a great blending of virtual and physical attendee interaction. Many that I chat with harbor the feelings that if they give it all away to the virtual attendee, then people will stop paying for the F2F experience ... Man oh man do I believe this is incorrect....
Build Thought Leadership/Trust --> The community will follow and grow
@JasonFalls session 'the Art of Listening' was special in a lotta ways and though I split time to make sure I hopped into @JeffHurt 's discussion too, when I was in Jason's session a few points really popped. When Jason discussed how @ChrisBrogan literally spent...
Biggest EC10 Learn: Turn Event into Platform for Collaboration
We know that F2F events are a tried and true way to bring people together, learn, network and communicate. The next step in keeping F2F relevant is to turn the event into a platform where F2F attendees, virtual attendees, exhibitors, show management, contractors can collaborate together to make the event meaningful....
Practicing What is Preached
I was thrilled with the 'Creating a Hybrid Event' & 'Creating an Online Community' sessions, but was equalled delighted with seeing the ideas from those discussions put in to action. As a viewer of the Livestream feed, I was able to follow in-session and post-session dialogue via Twitter and furthermore, witnessed...
Outside-In Success
From the outside looking in it became clear that a great many people not attending were able to contribute and feel involved in live debate and discussion. The take away for me is to strive to include live-feed video and twitter conversation in events - more Power to the Crowd (good...
