Comments on: Conferences http://www.jordoncooper.com/2009/06/03/conferences/ A weblog about urbanism, technology, & culture. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:54:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: robert http://www.jordoncooper.com/2009/06/03/conferences/comment-page-1/#comment-7653 robert Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:17:07 +0000 http://www.jordoncooper.com/2009/06/03/conferences/#comment-7653 I went to Q this year and loved it BUT I definitely agree with a couple of things that have been said. Yes it is a rip off of TED but personally I think it takes a good idea and redirects it toward a new area. I didn't feel that the speakers were concerned with selling product at all - which was one of the things I appreciated the most about Q. My biggest concern is mentioned in the first sentence you quoted from Nathan - they don't seem to care about the small and insignificant. All but one or two of the speakers were from huge cities and venues. Didn't seem to be much concern for areas with less than 250,000 people in them. Of course, this is why I wrote them and asked them to change. I went to Q this year and loved it BUT I definitely agree with a couple of things that have been said. Yes it is a rip off of TED but personally I think it takes a good idea and redirects it toward a new area. I didn’t feel that the speakers were concerned with selling product at all – which was one of the things I appreciated the most about Q.

My biggest concern is mentioned in the first sentence you quoted from Nathan – they don’t seem to care about the small and insignificant. All but one or two of the speakers were from huge cities and venues. Didn’t seem to be much concern for areas with less than 250,000 people in them.

Of course, this is why I wrote them and asked them to change.

]]> By: dan horwedel http://www.jordoncooper.com/2009/06/03/conferences/comment-page-1/#comment-7652 dan horwedel Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:55:05 +0000 http://www.jordoncooper.com/2009/06/03/conferences/#comment-7652 Just wanted to add my name to this petition against big conferences too. Just wanted to add my name to this petition against big conferences too.

]]> By: Lon http://www.jordoncooper.com/2009/06/03/conferences/comment-page-1/#comment-7650 Lon Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:06:04 +0000 http://www.jordoncooper.com/2009/06/03/conferences/#comment-7650 conferences that centre around content are over... If I'm going to block off a whole day at a conference, I'd rather not be ignored throughout it. Wouldn't it be amazing if it actually mattered whether or not you were there at these conferences. conferences that centre around content are over… If I’m going to block off a whole day at a conference, I’d rather not be ignored throughout it. Wouldn’t it be amazing if it actually mattered whether or not you were there at these conferences.

]]> By: Bill Kinnon http://www.jordoncooper.com/2009/06/03/conferences/comment-page-1/#comment-7647 Bill Kinnon Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:58:48 +0000 http://www.jordoncooper.com/2009/06/03/conferences/#comment-7647 I was a little less charitable towards Q than Nathan <a href="http://www.kinnon.tv/2007/02/groucho_marx_ri.html" rel="nofollow">when I commented on it in 2007</a>. One of the more impressive conferences I've been at was the one day Evolving Church Conference that Nathan provided significant leadership of - a conference where the cool people were behind the scenes and kept themselves there. I was a little less charitable towards Q than Nathan when I commented on it in 2007.

One of the more impressive conferences I’ve been at was the one day Evolving Church Conference that Nathan provided significant leadership of – a conference where the cool people were behind the scenes and kept themselves there.

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