The Need For Conversation

The web industry relies too heavily on web conferences and lone heroes to solve problems. I discuss where the conference format breaks down and how we could stage a complementary event to help us all work together smarter and more productively.

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1. @VIPickering www.vincentp.me VINCENT PICKERING UI/UX Design Consultant Need For THE CONVERSATION
2. THINK FOR A MOMENT
3. HOW DO WE NEW THINGS? DISCOVER
4. IN NOV ATE? HOW DO WE
5. IN YOUR ROOM YOU SIT
6. AND TRY TO MAKE STUFF OW N ON YOUR
7. CONFERENCES
8. OUR INDUSTRY HAS BEEN BUILT ON CONFERENCES
9. FOUNDATIONS AREN’T AS STABLE HOWEVER BELIEVE WOULD LIKE AS SOME TO THE
10. THE INTERACTION COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER
11. THERE WAS TOO MUCH CODE
12. THERE WASN’T ENOUGH CODE
13. THE CONTENT W ASN’T INTERESTING
14. I LEARNT NOTHING
15. Does Not Scale Image by @danackerman https://twitter.com/danackerman/status/344139912985059328
16. COMMUNICATE TO INCREASING YOUR AUDIENCE EFFECTIVELY DECREASES THE ABILITY
17. APPEALING SATISFIES NO ONE BY SPEAKERS DIVERSIFYING TO A WIDER AUDIENCE
18. SPEAKING TIME OF 60 MINUTES IS TOO LONG COMMON THE
19. CONFERENCES ATTEND ARE VERY EXPENSIVE TO
21. DOES THE PROBLEM REPRESENT SHOULD OBSERVE THE PROBLEM AS STATED WE ?
22. SPEAKING IS OMNI-DIRECTION AL
23. http://www.pangaro.com DR PAUL PANGARO
24. 1. Context 2. Shared Language 3. Exchange or Engagement 4. Agreement 5. Action or Transaction
25. C-L-E-A-T OR FOR SHORT
26. CONTEXT
27. SHARED LANGUAGE
28. EXCHANGE ENGAGEMENT OR
29. AGREEMENT
30. ACTION TRANSACTION OR
31. IS CONTEXT PARAMOUNT AND LANGUAGE
32. THE INTERACTION COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER
33. GET CONFERENCES IDEAS OUT OPEN IN THE
34. HOW CAN SO FIX THIS ? WE
35. DECREASE THE NUMBER OF IN A PEOPLE INVOLVED CONVERSATION
36. ENSURE THOSE THE LANGUAGE CONVERSATION AND CONTEXT OF THE INVOLVED UNDERSTAND
37. ENCOURAGE AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION
38. GIVE A COMMON GOAL THE DAY OR THEME
39. KEEP WHAT’S ALREADY WORKING
40. HOW ARE ? OTHERS SOLVING DESIGN PROBLEMS
41. POLYMATH http://polymathprojects.org
42. BBC CON NECTED STUDIOS
43. SO I’ M THINKING… HERE’S WHAT
44. WHAT IF AN THAT COULD SIT ALONG SIDE THERE WAS EVENT CONFERENCES
45. ON THAT WAS FOCUSED COLLABORATION
46. TO SOLVE WORKING TOGETHER A SHARED PROBLEM AND
47. SO ? HOW WOULD THIS WORK
48. SUGGESTIONS ARE RAISED TO THE EVENT WEBSITE
49. PERIODICALLY STAGE AN EVENT TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS AND FEEDBACK TO THE COMMUNITY WE
50. THE EVENT WOULD WORK AS FOLLOWS
51. AND ALL GIVEN THE SAME TASK TO SOLVE ATTENDEES ARE ASSIGNED SMALL TEAMS
52. AND GIVEN A FIXED AMOUNT OF TIME
53. THE EVENT ORGANISER SELECTS PROBLEMS TO TACKLE
54. TESTING MANY OUTCOMES
55. WHEN THE TIME UP IS
57. TESTING MANY OUTCOMES
58. EVENT WEBSITE DAYS RESULTS WOULD BE MADE ACCESSIBLE ON THE THE
60. THE FOLLOWING BENEFITS IT WOULD YIELD
61. BY HAVING MANY SIMILAR CONVERSATIONS AT ONE TIME TO A SOLUTION WE ARE TRYING OUT MANY POSSIBLE OUTCOMES IN A SHORT SPACE OF TIME.
62. ARE HARNESSING WE THE WISDOM OF CROWDS
63. EVERYONE IS INVOLVED ALL THE TIME
64. WE CAN ALL BENEFIT AND CONTRIBUTE IF YOU CAN’T ATTEND EVEN
65. Summit WE CAN BE BETTER TOGETHER @summit_event
66. INVOLVED GET AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE
67. @VIPickering www.vincentp.me VINCENT PICKERING UI/UX Design Consultant WE CAN BE BETTER TOGETHER