From my perspective I went there to learn. I’ve covered many of the sessions I was in. I captured much of what was said and added a few of my own thoughts too.

I don’t think full podcasts of events should be put up; I don’t think anyone should put up a complete video either without permission.

I’m coming from a view that the conference loses overall by not enabling and encouraging people to share what they are hearing, providing pointers to where the info may be found etc. I made an issue only of this media policy (many conferences are the same) because I thought the community was about collaboration, sharing etc. I also think participants need to understand and use the new tools.

The best way to insure that a conference received balanced reporting via blogs, wikis etc is to build in and model a group of people to take that role in it. Otherwise you run the risk of one blogger representing the show. That may not be a problem, or it may be.

So…. my purpose was really to point out that conferences require a social media strategy.

I really appreciate your response and like the revised tone which is so much warmer and more welcoming.

I think this is the right way to encourage participants to share their learnings and use social media to talk about the conference, create excitement around it, and push it forward.

That’s great particularly for an event like KM World, where sharing knowledge must be the core culture, and what better than to actually demonstrate how this can be done with social tools and media like blogs, wikis etc - learning by doing in some ways!

I also recognize that there are restrictions written into contracts with speakers and the explanation is far more ‘transparent’ in this version; one that people would respect and hopefully abide by. Perhaps there is an opportunity to revisit future event contracts.

While I used KMWorld2007 as my example I could have made the same point about many other conferences. I’m very conscious you are not alone. Concurrently, I’ll have to do more research to identify conferences that might illustrate best practice. I think Supernova2007 and some of the O’Reilly conferences would be a good place to start.

I also found myself watching Poptech this week via live.poptech.org. I’m sure all the presenters knew there would be a live feed. While it’s technically possible to “capture it” I doubt anyone did for more than personal use. I don’t think anything was stated about it. In the past Poptech has made videos available; however I think their approach is also changing as I see Popicasts now available. Similarly they have distributed content via ITConversations in the past.

An additional thought I had in the context of blogging and how to share better - at many conferences I have been to, bloggers are encouraged to send in their URL’s and relevant content from their blogs is often aggregated on the official website — this in some ways encourages people to talk about it more, and allows you to share with your community what people are feeling about the sessions, speakers, the informal exchanges and the event.

I look forward to attending.

Stuart

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