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What is the unconference?

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I found think:lab this great post that articulates the difference. I am a bit shy to post it because I feel like we got inundated with old web vs. Web 2.0 lists like this but these seemed so GREAT!

Conference:
Attendees, Exhibitors, Recruiting speakers, Content planning, Direct marketing, Handouts, 12 month planning cycle, Sponsorships, Once a year, Large budgets , Maximize value for organizers, Best practices, Top down, Wisdom of experts, Magazine coverage 2 months later, Slides, Panels, Best practices, Hierarchy, Directive methods, Participants, Speakers, Sharing information, Instruction, Best learning in the hallway

Unconference:
Participants
Participants
Recruiting participants
Content facilitation
Word of mouth marketing
Wikis
12 week planning cycle
Donations
As often as needed and desired
Shoe-string budgets
Maximize value for participants
Innovation
Bottom up
Wisdom of crowds
Live blogging/podcasting
Stories
Conversations
Practicing
Networks
participatory methods
Contributors/creators
Conversation starters
Learning collaboratively
Discovery
It’s all hallway!

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posted by Kaliya on 04.29.06 @ 6:07 am 3 Comments

3 Responses to “What is the unconference?”

omidyar.net says:
April 29th, 2006 at 4:05 pm

Unconferences…

From Kaliya’s Unconferences blog ……

Pete Rowley » Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) 2006A says:
May 5th, 2006 at 4:24 am

[...] The format of the workshop consisted of an introductory afternoon, and then, well, then there was a 2 day coffee break. The coffee break started with some serious retro-geekery as people were asked to write down (with pens, on paper) topics that they wished to discuss and to place them in a time slot on the wall for one of the 7 meeting places. From a purely tech standpoint the wall was an elegant example of a fully interactive calendar, or meeting agenda, with advanced features like undo, redo, merge and insert but without the computer – genius. I can only wonder what features Kaliya Hamlin has in store for us when she releases the much anticipated harderware, Wall 2.0. The unconference format is an interesting live study in self organizing systems, and it works. [...]

Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog » IIW 2006 - Seen by Pete Rowley says:
May 6th, 2006 at 7:52 pm

[...] The format of the workshop consisted of an introductory afternoon, and then, well, then there was a 2 day coffee break. The coffee break started with some serious retro-geekery as people were asked to write down (with pens, on paper) topics that they wished to discuss and to place them in a time slot on the wall for one of the 7 meeting places. From a purely tech standpoint the wall was an elegant example of a fully interactive calendar, or meeting agenda, with advanced features like undo, redo, merge and insert but without the computer – genius. I can only wonder what features Kaliya Hamlin has in store for us when she releases the much anticipated harderware, Wall 2.0. The unconference format is an interesting live study in self organizing systems, and it works. [...]

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