Yearning to be a part of the conference scene

September 18, 2007 by mireya
Filed under: Notes 

Scoble's taking photos at TechCrunch 40TechCrunch40 news continues its flow through my reader, I realize that one of my less than conscious goals is to become a part of those conference hallway conversations that Scoble is always railing on and on about. Wondering if there might not also be a secondary conference admission level that doesn’t allow you into the presentations, but just to hangout in the common areas. Make the name tag a different color, post people at the door (”Sorry, Mr. Kirk, you only paid the cheapy rate. You’ll have to stay out in the hallways. Thank you!”)

While I may not have the desire to be the face and voice of a Scoble or a Calacanis (in the 2.0 social, community world) I do have those desires in the fight world. And being a part of the social infrastructure is always going to be a boon to making progress in any aspect of online operations.

So, what does it come down to? What does it take to get into this sort of position? Well, I’ll gladly discuss this with anyone whom decides to leave comments here. As well, as a part of the new BoldlyGoing.com and how I envision doing things, I’ll be creating comments related to this specific concept at other sites. To better create threads that are followable (and maybe help create more of a “process” for helping readers follow the entire conversation), I am planning on setting up a “series” tracker on this site, which should make it easier to follow the thread as well.

So do stay tuned to participate. Heck, you could even subscribe to our feed in order to not miss a single post or comment!

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  • Time to shake up conferences.

    The biggest items that jump out at me that I think I "somewhat" disagree with is his desire to make conferences in general more open and available to the general public, the globe around. Doesn't that simply take away from the concept of "going to a conference"?

    Now, I'm not in that camp of thinkers that espouse going away from work is the reason for attending a conference (though I admit that I've been there in the past, but hey, we grow, right ;) ). No, more for the intense synchronicity and energy exchange that really does seem to come only from being near others.

    I've no doubt that adding the massive collaborative capabilities that Dave talks about would be very cool, just don't forget that "someone" has to attend the conference for it to exist!
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