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Learning Camp – A New Kind of Conference

22 February 2010

Over the past year or so, I’ve noticed an increasing dissatisfaction with the kind of technology conferences being run in the UK, or at least in the way they’re run. Some of this has been virtual, such as these blog posts by Donald Clark, Clive Shepherd and Mark Betherlemy, but this has also come up [...]

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Don’t blame PowerPoint

16 February 2009

Jay Cross has written a post called PowerPoint is tyranny, about whether offsite conferences need to change. I’ve not seen Jay’s presentation, but I don’t think we can lay the blame at PowerPoint’s door. Like everything else in this rapidly changing world, conference organisers need to demonstrate value. It will no longer be acceptable to [...]

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