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Ask HN: What works well in virtual conferences?
Have you attended any virtual conferences? Professional or otherwise?
Tell me about the things that worked well. This could be anything, from presentation tips, to efficiently-managed breakout rooms, to finding ways to engage participants. How did it make a difference? Give me details!
I’m writing an article about how companies can run better online events, so thinking in terms of “good ideas worth stealing.” Leave out the disappointments; I want to focus on the positive practices.
If you’ve run a virtual event I’m interested in your opinions too, but keep in mind that this is framed as tips-and-tricks worth sharing.
- mtmail 6y agohttps://thegeomob.com/ https://thegeomob.com/ (https://twitter.com/geomob https://twitter.com/geomob) is in the niche of geospatial tech (maps, routing, data, visualization). 4-5 presentations per evening, 6x per year. Audience is muted in Zoom during presentations. We're un-muting after a presentation so everybody can clap. It kind of works.
- ohjeez 6y agoI'm hoping for more than "it kind of works." <grin> Ideally, I'm looking for cool things that organizers have done. For instance, my editor told me about attending an online event run by a winemaker... who spoke from the vineyard. Meanwhile Tom was in his own kitchen with a glass of wine. That would be a better experience than he'd have had in any hotel conference room. And another friend wrote about a conference he attended: > I think anything online is almost by definition ‘short attention span theater’ and the organizers took note of that with shorter panel sessions. Instead of a half hour to 45 minutes, these ran 10-15 minutes with four panelists. Extremely brief introductions, right to the point, on-topic questions, and so it went. Pretty effective even for fairly weighty topics like impact of AI on business.