On Aug 4, 2008, at 9:26 AM, Matthew J Zekauskas wrote:
One thought that came up this week -- a second projector showing the
current Jabber chat... or even just switching to it during long Q&A
sessions. This might more easily allow some of the qustioners in.
Actually, it probably gives them priority over folks at the mic, so
maybe it's not such a good idea.
DY> I've been to conferences where some chat room was broadcast on a
second screen in the room as a "backchannel". Typically it was an IRC
chat room or a Twitter feed tied to a keyword or hashtag. While I
applauded the efforts to make the sessions more "open", I found it
incredibly distracting to have that second screen there. People seemed
to follow that chat instead of following the listener... resulting in
the oddity of people sitting in the audience watching the screen to
see what people in the audience thought about the person talking to
the audience! (And then some were writing in the chat room about the
people watching the chat room to see the people writing about.....)
DY> Having a second screen would certainly increase the ability of
remote participants to communicate, but I would wonder about how you
then integrate those questions in with people waiting patiently at the
microphone. I could also very easily see people *in the room* using
it as a way to post questions as well and jump over the mic line.
(Which has also happened to me with our current system where I've
'jumped the line' to relay a question for someone in the chat room
only to find out later that they were in the same room but just didn't
want to go to the mic line.)
My 2 cents,
Dan
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