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Friday Apr 28, 2006
Top 5 conference hates
When was the last time you came back from a conference and thought, "Excellent - a day really well spent"?
The voluntary sector has always been conference-rich. But weirdly, new media conferences, which you might think would be considered rather un-web 2.0, seem to be multiplying.
My top five conference hates:
1. The ministerial speech (in which the least informed person in the room reads a speech written by a civil servant)
2. The host chief exec's speech (in which the most excited person in the room tells you how excited they are and tries to make jokes)
3. The host chair's speech (at least it's normally shorter than the chief exec's)
4. Lunch (goujons anyone?)
5. Ice breakers (no phrase spreads more dread)
Feel free to add your own list of hates. Or, (who knows?) what you love about conferences.
Posted by Tom Green ( 8:53 AM ) Link to this post Comments[5]
7. Questions from the floor which take the conversation down pointless, dead-end semantic alleyways.
Posted by Dom Waghorn on April 28, 2006 at 09:18 AM GMT+00:00 #
8. Tea thats stewed in the flasks for a week
9. Incorrect ratio of fizzy to still water (not enough still)
Posted by Sam Thomas on April 28, 2006 at 01:02 PM GMT+00:00 #
Posted by Tom Green on April 28, 2006 at 03:12 PM GMT+00:00 #
Posted by 127.0.0.1 on May 05, 2006 at 11:33 PM GMT+00:00 #
Posted by Dom Waghorn on May 08, 2006 at 12:48 PM GMT+00:00 #