Comments on: My Learnings From The Online Community Unconference 2009 http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2009/06/my-learnings-from-the-online-community-unconference-2009/ Rethinking Customer Experience & Marketing Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:56:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Bailey http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2009/06/my-learnings-from-the-online-community-unconference-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-1169 Chris Bailey Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:46:01 +0000 http://www.gravit8.com/?p=328#comment-1169 Well Bill, with #4 you're just way too kind...I appreciate it. And I think you're spot-on with your take-aways. Where with most conferences you may learn yet feel disconnected from other attendees, I never felt that way at OCU2009. That's a credit to the folks at ForumOne because I've been to unconferences that were much smaller but didn't do short intros, didn't really set up a structure, and really didn't keep my attention.<br><br>It was a treat to meet you F2F and really look forward to following and learning from your work. Take care, my friend. Well Bill, with #4 you're just way too kind…I appreciate it. And I think you're spot-on with your take-aways. Where with most conferences you may learn yet feel disconnected from other attendees, I never felt that way at OCU2009. That's a credit to the folks at ForumOne because I've been to unconferences that were much smaller but didn't do short intros, didn't really set up a structure, and really didn't keep my attention.

It was a treat to meet you F2F and really look forward to following and learning from your work. Take care, my friend.

]]> By: Bill Jacobson Consulting http://www.baileyworkplay.com/2009/06/my-learnings-from-the-online-community-unconference-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-1168 Bill Jacobson Consulting Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:25:38 +0000 http://www.gravit8.com/?p=328#comment-1168 The Online Community Unconference was very inspirational and worth the investment.<br><br>In particular, the format of the Unconference creates a comfortable space where sharing of ideas, passion, knowledge, voice and goals are easily communicated. Here are a few of my take-aways from the day.<br><br>1) 200 + people introducing themselves by name, title, company, interest at the beginning of the conference is a very effective way to learn who share common interest. (in twitter fashion - quick and to the point)<br><br>2) The introduction format resulted in immediate face to face conversation with people who freely greeted me in the day and generously offered tips for growing the Calling Back the Salmon dot com community. (Wow!)<br><br>3) Discussion sessions led by conference attendees provides a comfortable way to give and receive. Rather than "Speaker X is the Maven/Guru of this or that", the format provides a circular way to share, listen, and learn about latest community building and management tools... ( in an ad free way ) Check out these topics that were discussed:<br> <a href="http://bit.ly/ZVVax" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/ZVVax</a><br><br>4) Last but not least... Chris Bailey is a Gr8 guy, has Gr8 stories, Gr8 humor, and in my humble opinion is a Gr8 community building strategist... The Online Community Unconference was very inspirational and worth the investment.

In particular, the format of the Unconference creates a comfortable space where sharing of ideas, passion, knowledge, voice and goals are easily communicated. Here are a few of my take-aways from the day.

1) 200 + people introducing themselves by name, title, company, interest at the beginning of the conference is a very effective way to learn who share common interest. (in twitter fashion – quick and to the point)

2) The introduction format resulted in immediate face to face conversation with people who freely greeted me in the day and generously offered tips for growing the Calling Back the Salmon dot com community. (Wow!)

3) Discussion sessions led by conference attendees provides a comfortable way to give and receive. Rather than “Speaker X is the Maven/Guru of this or that”, the format provides a circular way to share, listen, and learn about latest community building and management tools… ( in an ad free way ) Check out these topics that were discussed:
http://bit.ly/ZVVax

4) Last but not least… Chris Bailey is a Gr8 guy, has Gr8 stories, Gr8 humor, and in my humble opinion is a Gr8 community building strategist…

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