Comments on: A View from the Cheap Seats – Commentary on ASAE Annual 2009

By: desabol

desabol — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:55:46 +0000

Hey Scott,

Let your kids have the Toonie – every little one should have a bunch of foreign currency for show-and-tell – as for blogging, thanks for the nudge, I am gearing up for another adventure and think I’ll be able to honor that request.

Thanks for always giving me some focus. I’ll owe you more than a Toonie.

Dave

By: Scott Briscoe

Scott Briscoe — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:36:28 +0000

Hey Dave — where you been. Come back and blog some more, please?

And tell me where to send your Toonie — you didn’t have to be there to claim your prize (unless I accidently gave it to my kids).

By: desabol

desabol — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:45:40 +0000

Thanks Maggie. A while back I was too adversarial with these types of posts, but I came to realize that it’s tough to get everything in order – especially when some of the technology is totally emerging and there is no definitive playbook. I’m just hoping that Reggie, Amy and Peter take a gander at this – and any other reflections and integrate what makes sense. I figure I could be part of the problem or part of the solution – and since I am on the Social Media Task Force, I thought the later was preferable.

By: Maggie McGary

Maggie McGary — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:38:31 +0000

This is a really great post–you need to be working at ASAE!

Great point about Twitter–you are totally right that with it being as unreliable as it is it’s a huge gamble to make that your only way for engaging virtual attendees.

By: desabol

desabol — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:42:22 +0000

Swan, @JeffHurt is a bright man and I agree with both of you. There are so many ways to monetize event content that add value to not detract from the event (sponsorships, ads, etc.) that I’m surprised that more organizations aren’t taking advantage of them.

By: Swan

Swan — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:38:32 +0000

My pleasure. I agree with @JeffHurt that content providers should find ways other than tickets to monetize digital content. If they don’t, the content will get out of their control in exactly the way that you describe.

Ideally, the conference will create a quality video stream and simulcast it through something like twebevent. Revenue could come from selling ads on the pages, pre-roll, etc…

By: desabol

desabol — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:51:37 +0000

Swan, thanks for the note. This could be a good resource if we could get some live video. We need folks recording from their mobile devices and flip recorders to contribute. That would be a huge resource! Thanks for sharing it – it’s a great idea.

By: Swan

Swan — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:49:02 +0000

Dave, great points.

There is now a site available that will stream any video (live or recorded) and mash it with a Twitter hashtag chat. Called twebevent

I created a twebevent for ASAE and trying to put content into it so that it provides a one stop shop for virtual attendees, but it would be dramatically better with a live video stream. http://twebevent.com/asae09

Swan