Comments on: Lessons from Helsinki: Kill the Speaker / Attendee Divide

By: Scott Gould

Scott Gould — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:40:26 +0000

Hey RosaTotally – I knew TED did something like this – and that's what I want to do.Do you know how else they train speakers?Scott

By: Rosa Garriga

Rosa Garriga — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:50:09 +0000

Hello Scott,I was just catching up with your last posts, and I'm glad I did it! It sounds like a fantastic event, love your ideas to increase brainstorming, crowdsourcing… you're so right about the role of facilitators!by the way, do you know why TED speakers don't have a laptop? Because they rehearse the session before, they make sure that the presentation is 100% perfect, like if it were a movie… they even put make up on the speakers. One speaker told me how much she had learnt to deliver great presentations thanks to the training she received by the TED people…

By: Scott Gould

Scott Gould — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:34:24 +0000

I love this. We started doing this when we had our lunchtime speaker slots at Like Minds Conference in February – people could sit and have lunch with their heroes, so to speak.I'll have a look at the website and get more info about what you did!Thanks Deborah

By: Deborah Dawton

Deborah Dawton — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:20:40 +0000

Scott: we ran an event in December last year called The Edge. One of the things we did was invite 15 or so leading lights in design to sit in the crowd and participate like eveyone else. What was great was the surprise on peoples faces at finding themselves sat next to one of their heroes. Younger designers told us that they never got the chance to speak to speak to the speakers – bridging the audience/stage divide was too daunting for them. The aim was to bring the speakers off the stage and into the audience and it worked brilliantly. Those people who actually spoke also stayed for the whole day. Our design “heroes” also then hosted lunch discussions where their admirers who could really get to know them. Thoroughly recommend it. Deborah

By: Scott Gould

Scott Gould — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:13:28 +0000

Thanks for that Dave – JUST what I needed to read!I also have a stack of Midcourse Correction blog posts to catch up – expect lots of comments there from me soon!

By: Dave Lutz

Dave Lutz — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:10:39 +0000

Hey Scott, thanks for the shout out! Here's a link to a recent post about Panel's and their effectiveness. http://tinyurl.com/2vmjsv7 You'll find quite a bit of gold in the comments.

By: Scott Gould

Scott Gould — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:26:44 +0000

I'm sure we'll see you in October

By: Scott Gould

Scott Gould — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:26:29 +0000

LOL – Thanks Jeff.Crowd discussion worked very, very well. Need to tweak though.

By: Scott Gould

Scott Gould — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:26:01 +0000

Right on Markus, that's what I'm doing

By: beckysocial

beckysocial — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:53:49 +0000

I wish I was there. Just sounds fantastic. Well done Scott and thank you for sharing!