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Effective Web Conferences – 41 Resources

Tony Karrer

I wanted to follow-up 19 Tips for Effective Online Conferences with some additional resources that relate to this topic. Online Conference Formats - eLearning Technology , April 23, 2009 Also, if you are interested in future conferences , please go sign up on the Learn Trends Ning Group. Yes, Mark, it is.

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Remote Collaboration

Tony Karrer

In other words - How do we collaborate together in remote work teams to be as effective or even more effective than a team that works down the hall? People moved ahead of the conversation and updated status notes so we could skip them. as well as knowing about tools and methods. You could see where people are working.

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7 lessons how to use social media in an event with social media beginners

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

We managed to let people connect beforehand through a platform (ning ) and afterwards link participants to other networks or initiatives (like the outcome mapping community ). The evaluation was quite positive about the effect of using social media. Last year we experimented with a ning platform, a twitter account and a few videos.

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Networks and Communities

Tony Karrer

However, each of these can be directly addressed through conversation. Network Readiness Before you can reach into a network or community to seek conversation, you generally need to have spent time on Building some level of connection (network building). Being ready to engage to seek conversation (network access).

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Online Conferences and In-Person Conferences

Tony Karrer

Ning really makes it easy to do one of these. On discussions, I believe that it's harder to have effective discussions on specific topics at in-person conferences. Threaded discussions are more effective and normally you don't have these in-person. You do get a better random effect in-person. Cost is very low.

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Social Grid Follow-up

Tony Karrer

However, when we just did this for the LA CTO Forum , we created a LinkedIn group so that members could search profiles and created a private Ning community for discussions, events, and communication. I often find that Ning isn't that great for specialized content. not when I'm seeking a conversation.

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The Right Place to Find Help: ASTD's Big Question

Kapp Notes

How to reach out and find expertise -How to use Social Media to Find Answers to Questions -How to Learn through Conversation And then the questions are even broken down further into more sub-questions which you can read for yourself at the original ASTD Blog posting Network Feedback. and social media and is what makes it so effective.