Most training conferences in most industries resort to what’s called a panel session. Why do panels still happen? In theory a panel is jam packed with goodness, as it gets more people on stage at the same time, creates something real and spontaneous, and all things being equal more interesting stuff should happen than your average lecture. This is where 3 to 5 experts get up on stage and each one, in turn, bores the audience to death. One reason.

At the Travolution Summit 2009 , 200 of the 1,150 tweets using the #travsummit hashtag were after the event. Post-event analysis and continuing the conversation was, until now, the Holy Grail of event organisers. The decision depends on the nature of each session: is it a presentation, panel or a discussion? Twitter is now a reality at many conferences. Now the question is: should you display a live twitter stream on a large screen so that everyone (not just the tweeters) in the audience can see it?

chrisbrogan.com Home About Speaking Rockstars Newsletters Contact Best Of How to Start Speaking at Events December 8, 2008 · Comments One day, I wasn’t a speaker at conferences, and then I was. If you’re interested in speaking at events, I have some ideas on how you might get that going. And then a little while later, I was a paid speaker. And now, I’m a decently paid speaker.

38 mins ago « Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Jan 30, 2008 Silicon Valley Sightings: San Jose Mercury News » 67 How to Successfully Moderate a Conference Panel, A Comprehensive Guide Categories: Conference Posted on January 30th, 2008 Yesterday, I moderated another panel, ( here’s a review ) and I’m told by the conference organizers it went well. I’ve managed panels of dueling CEOs in the same industry, and even one of the most popular panels at the Web

Most of you would likely say that speaking on a panel is more difficult and requires more preparation than moderating one. The role of the moderator is critical to the success of the panel, success being defined as how much value both the audience and the panelists derive from the experience. But according to Jeremiah Owyang, in his blog post, How To Successfully Moderate a Conference Panel , a moderator should serve the audience, not the panelists. And I'd say you're incorrect. Contrary to what some may think, the moderator doesn't just keep time or make sure that

Panels are a low form of public speaking.  0160; Rarely does a panel provide memorable content.  0160; The success or failure of a panel in the end all depends on the moderator.  0160; Usually a panel is a depressing spectacle of speakers overrunning their time, repeating themselves, or rambling inexcusably because they haven’t prepared since ‘it wasn’t a real speech'.  0160; It's a lazy, cheap way for a conference planner to fill an hour or 90 minutes.  0160; But you get what you pay for in this as in other things. 

You get to review all the panel proposals and use the Panel Picker to give each idea a thumbs up, or thumbs down. (Note: And if you’re interested to see what Nancy is proposing… check out the following two panels: Year after year, the event is a launching pad for new creative content. Panelists are currently being chosen for South by Southwest , and YOU get to help decide who makes it in the lineup! This year, you get a say in ALL THREE categories–music, film, and interactive!

0160; Then the committee divides the rest of the time up into 60-minute slots and fills them with ‘breakouts’, panels, workshop leaders, and so on.  There are many ways to give attendees a larger role in meetings and conferences, from making them part of panel discussions to creating discussion groups to having them manage Q and A.  Tags: Audience-Centered Speaking Current Affairs Event Planning Public Speaking The meetings and conference business has taken hits from the economy and Joe Biden telling everyone he wants his family to stay off airplanes.  0160;

involved in sitting on panels, running seminars, leading questions, and generally planning on the part of the folks running the event, as well as input from the attendees. participation in many ways before during and after the actual event, but even more Tags: Audience-Centered Speaking Authenticity Books Conferences ask a lot of passivity from their audiences – audiences audiences made up of people who are normally quite active.  

For the fifth consecutive year they are holding their Design-a-Template contest , with a free trip to the fall event being awarded to the person whose work is chosen to serve as the conference template. The judging panel is comprised of a select group of conference regulars, including Richard Bretschneider, Senior Program Manager for PowerPoint at Microsoft, slide:ology author Nancy Duarte, indezine editor Geetesh Bajaj, prominent slide designer Julie Terberg, and several other members of Microsoft's Most Valued Professional team of support specialsts. “The My friend Rick Altman over at the Better Presenting Blog gave me a heads up the other day.