Ok, so I'm here at the Copa Copacabana, MC-ing the BlogOn 2005 Social Media Summit. I managed to get through my introduction without falling on my arse, freezing or swearing, so I am pretty happy that it's all going well here. Didn't feel at all nervous until I was actually there, ready to go on the stage, and then the dreaded iron-cold fist of fear gripped my belly.
Er, well, maybe not. I did get a few butterflies, but not as bad as orating at Speaker's Corner which routinely scares the crap out of me.
Really enjoying the conference, though. If you want, you can get into it all via the webcast or the IRC channel (freenode – #blogon).
I'm not taking a single note about any of the speakers, which is really weird for me because usually I am all over the collaborative note taking stuff, but I just have too much else to think about to even begin to try taking notes. I'm going to have to rely on someone else to do so.
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> Ok, so I'm here at the Copa Copacabana, MC-ing the BlogOn 2005
> Social Media Summit. I managed to get through my introduction
> without falling on my arse, freezing or swearing, so I am pretty happy > that it's all going well here. Didn't feel at all nervous until I was
> actually there, ready to go on the stage, and then the dreaded
> iron-cold fist of fear gripped my belly.
> Er, well, maybe not. I did get a few butterflies, but not as bad as
> orating at Speaker's Corner which routinely scares the crap out of
> me.
exactly the reason why I don't speak 😉
gr8 job
I hate to tell you, but the webcast sucked! Dropped its guts during the podcasting panel (ironic really). Can i suggest next show to consider having an audio only feed as it probably would be more reliable. I guess I will need to wait for the podcast of the event to be released.
TIA
Molly
http://mollyzine.blogspot.com
Yeah, i'm sorry about that. We had the webcast on it's own dedicated connection, but yet it still didn't seem to keep up with demand. Equally, we had similar problems with the wifi at the conference. We had two T1 lines into the Copa, and even that wasn't enough bandwidth.
Hi Suw,
Sorry about the whinge, I probably should have done it in a more construtive fashion. Yesterday was still a little bumbed out (and sleep deprieved). The panel was great (what we saw) and look forward to listening to the podcasts that come out.
Perhaps (for any other conferenses that you organise) you could try to engineer it that there is a Podcaster that gets their show up within hours of the event rather then days (no offense to the podcasters out there). Perhaps it could be one where the quality isn't the main thing.
TIA
Molly
http://mollyzine.blogspot.com
The videos will be released online, I am told, so you will be able to watch the panel at your leisure in due course (the video guy has to get home and get them hosted first).
We didn't control the podcasters – John and Cam had free rein to do what they wanted, on the timescale that they wanted. If you're unhappy with the podcasters, all I can suggest is that you contact them directly.
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