Last weekend, I attended my first ever BarCamp - BarCamp Sydney v3. Wow, what an experience!
Two days packed with constant conversation with smart folks on all sorts of subjects. I certainly came away with my brain full and my Twitter Following list expanded (more than a few have followed me, too). On top of all that, I got to meet a bunch of new people and put faces and voices to people I’ve been conversing with online for some time. All in all a very rich and rewarding experience.
My session, entitled All you do is talk talk (80s music fans will get the reference) was a new talk about building shared language and understanding in order to successfully evangelize social tools in your organisation. It’s targeted at people in organisations that don’t already use these tools, but the concepts could easily be adopted for any program of change.
Given BarCamp presentations are short - just 20 minutes including questions - it’s not deep and comprehensive. Rather, just a taste of the subject matter.
I also re-presented I am Knowledge Worker 2.0, the talk I gave in San Francisco at Office 2.0 last September.
Both talks were very well received by the audience, so I’m glad I put the effort in to go to Sydney and attend.
Now of course, it falls to me and the other Unorganisers of BarCamp Canberra #1 to be as good as our friends in Sydney. We have a lot to live up to!
Just love your presentation — This is really important. I got at this from another angle -the whole angle of whether a social media policy is just cut and paste or whether or not there is value in the process of discussion. Certainly, I feel the latter is important.
BTW, I’m coming to Sydney next month - can’t wait. What would you say is a “don’t miss” if you are visiting for the first time.
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