Comments on: Passing notes in school

By: Lloyd Davis

Lloyd Davis — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:47:44 +0000

Hi Roland, let’s keep talking about how you can incorporate social media into events more – I’ll give you a ring. I have lots of ideas (and I know that you and others working with you do too) and I’m I’m experimenting with on a small scale with the Tuttle Club, but when you’re working at the huge scale of Tuesday’s event I think there’s a really interesting and important question here which is about what can possibly work when you get 3,000 people gathered in one space.

By: Roland Harwood

Roland Harwood — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:11:58 +0000

Hey Lloyd, found the whole thing rather bewildering myself as semi-official Nesta tweeter for the day but that’s another tale. i agree with many of the comments made and would love to incorporate social media more in events in future but not entirely sure how. We’ve never done an event on this scale so it was the safe option i guess to go with the more traditional format. Fundamentally I agree that we should be aiming for a more conversational format but even in conversations you can’t generally have more than one person talking at any one time, or if you do it quickly becomes incomprehensible. As for projecting comments on a big screen – I think twitter is possibly too quick and easy to say stuff you may quickly regret so I still think there should probably be some kind of moderation. But thanks for the post – feels like we learned something, I know I did, and that’s got to be a good thing.

By: Innovation Nation at Innovation Edge - social8

Innovation Nation at Innovation Edge - social8 — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:52:48 +0000

[...] Networks – the new cities? This caused a mild twitter explosion (Lloyd Davis has captured his feelings on his blog ). Inviting the twitterati to comment and referring to them at the beginning and end but not so much [...]

By: steve clayton

steve clayton — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:34:29 +0000

I felt the same way Lloyd – a bit snarky at Freedland but ultimatley he wasted a chance to do some great interviewing. You can’t lay all the blame at your own door as our expectations of conferences have risen over the last 12 months and NESTA though having some great content went for a very traditional approach – in the morning at least as I had to dash after lunch.

What NESTA should have done is put a bloody big Twitter feed on screen throughout the main sessions and follow those who were livetweeting. that would have kept us honest and also been an “innovative” way to take some input and questions from the floor.

By: Paul Caplan

Paul Caplan — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:32:42 +0000

Ironic isn’t it for all we ‘bottom-up-network-effect-crowd-sourcing-wikified-barcamped-alternative conferencing-we-thinking’ crowderati that the bit that sticks in the mind and got me doodling and thinking the most was one guy without a srcipt delivering top-down rants… and no I don’t mean the PM.

By: Podnosh Blog » Archive » Host Written

Podnosh Blog » Archive » Host Written — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:16:47 +0000

[...] Lloyd’s comment above is about Charles Leadbeater and whether the huge amount of tweeting which is happening here at the Nesta Innovation Edge Conference will provide enough material for Charle’s next book. [...]

By: vivdora

vivdora — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:15:53 +0000

I don’t know what it was you were at but I completely understand your reaction. I get very wound up by the “I’m now going to read this overhead/powerpoint to you word by word” type of presentation . I once said the nursing process was “crap,crap and crap” – which it is, but I felt duty bound to apologise to the speaker afterwards.
It’s interesting how such events can prpduce a sort of road rage/regression to teanage. What was it all about anyway?