Frameworks for panel moderation

As someone who's moderated a conference another one in June, I found Guy Kawasaki's tips on Guy's post for his detailed explanations with each point. This fits with my belief that old blog in January: [] The speaker's/presenter's responsibility is to use [the environment created by the event organizer] as his or her own framework to provide the means to stimulate engagement with the people who have showed up at the event. So that means things like no boring PowerPoints, no panels full of talking heads just having a nice little chat with each other, etc. You know the kind of thing I mean. Instead, it means speakers and presenters who really do participate with their audience, making that audience an integral part of the session. In effect, everyone there is the panel or presentation where the (so-called) presenter or speaker is a conversation leader and focus former. Now there's a convoluted label!. Those attending have a responsibility, too - actively participate, not just sit there like glazed-eyed mute dummies where you can see the bodies are physically in the room but the minds are absent. This was definitely illustrated by the quality of panels, speakers and participants at the Jen McClure and DiggThis | NevilleHobson.com blog which focuses on business communication and technology.

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