blognite perspectives

blognite was excellent. It was a full night of presentations, questions, discussions and laughs. I had a great time MCing the whole show, though it was pretty hard to keep presenters to time when there was a lot of interesting content and questions. But we had to start with something, and the one night format meant it was easy for people to come along.

A couple of thoughts for the next one:

* We really needed to have a proper intermission where people got up and moved around, with nothing scheduled, so the presenters get heard, and we all have a chance to have a chat with each other.

* We needed more time for the presenters. Ten minutes plus ten minutes of questions is a very hard thing to prepare for and present. I think the presenters did so well with the time they had.

I guess I can imagine the next one being a full-day conference. Might be harder to get people to come, but there would be some space and time for presentations, tutorial how-to sessions, and informal gatherings.

What a great local blogging community we have. Congrats to the organisers for making it happen, and the presenters for standing up and doing their thing.

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004 blogging, perth blogs

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