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The joys of attending an “un-
conference” and social media
continues at a frantic pace… |
On Saturday 11th July I joined around 120 other
geeks at Bar Camp 3 in Auckland.
This was an “un-conference” and was a great way to
network and find what other people thought was
interesting and important.
I co-presented in two sessions and the discussion
from the floor really made the whole thing very
interactive and collaborative.
We found a large take up of social media users –
with a single sole person admitting they didn't
have a twitter account – and many of the
participants having more than 5 separate accounts.
The beauty of the “un-conference” is that anyone
can present on any topic based under several
streams of topics.
The rooms and timetable are added to a whiteboard
and people write what they want present on – and
folks turn up to participate.
There were several joint presentations and some
great humour added to an excellent day.
The venue (Botany Downs Secondary College) was
fantastic with a central area and the 5 meeting
rooms off that – there was also a big screen that
showed a steady Twitterstream of comments made by
participants.
It was a day of geekdom and social media was very
much in evidence with geeks everywhere playing on
all aspects of devices from the latest iPhone
launched the day before to laptop and iBooks.
Shame the wifi couldn't handle the load…
Here's a link to enjoy the hype via Twitter: -
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tinyurl.com/bca3-twitter
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