Friday morning was probably not the best time to present after a conference "networking evening". The first session I saw involved Paul Hilder from AVAAZ.org, Sara Ashton from Amnesty, Thomas Noirfalisse from Oxfam and Juan Gonzalez-Mellizo from the European Commission. All fine speakers with interesting things to say. AVAAZ was Read more…
I went to barcamp and the online noise about it was deafening. I went to the Social Media CoP Big Day out and the blogging about it was swift and detailed. I went the 2006 International e-Participation & Local Democracy Symposium and the blogging was in depth, immediate, and analytical. Read more…
That’s a fair description of BarCampUKGovweb (although I guess the easy doesn’t apply if you organised – hats off to Jeremy, Emma and co.).
My way of describing BarCamp is that it is a conference without the interminable self-promoting presentations. It is self-organising to the extent that the agenda can and does change right the way through the day and more time is spent discussing and networking than listening to people tell you things you could have read if they’d been bothered to share it online.
More information about BarCampUKGovweb is on PageFlakes.
I want to use this post to make a few comments about the day and to move the conversation forward. This is needed because the one frustration I felt about the day was that everytime the discussion was coming round to solutions and actions someone would pop their head around the door and say
Following the avalanche of emails about the rapid organisation of BarCampUKGovweb is a masterclass in Web2.0 tools. Twitter, Googlegroups, Wiki, Yahoo Pipes, Flickr, YouTube, Del.icio.us, Slide.com, and my favourite because it brings them together – PageFlakes.
I’m a late comer to the BarCamp concept. In fact I don’t really know what I’m letting myself in for, but the reviews are good and people have encouraged me to join in what is promised to be an invigorating day of unstructured presentation, comment and discussion. The idea is Read more…