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Behind the ROFLs: Next-Gen Conference Organizing While Broke
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- Description:
- With no money or previous experience, a few college kids organized a hugely successful conference on internet culture. Now, Team ROFLCon discusses the fine art of creating next-gen conferences with low-tech tools, balancing serious dialogue and spontaneous fun, pleasing the internets, and making low-budget look charming.
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- How can you make a nonexistent-budget conference look charming?
- How do you get sponsorships without getting accused of "selling out"?
- I can has Cheezburger?
- What kinds of tools are available to make conference planning (somewhat) easier?
- Backchan.nl, Twitter, IRC, wikis--what are the pros and cons of each, and how do you guide productive discussion on them?
- How did we discuss and analyze the internets without SERIOUSLY pissing it off?"
- How do you balance spontaneous LOLs with Serious Business?
- What can go wrong with real-life (and online) conference trolls, and what are some basic precautions to take?New memes, new technologies, new thoughts: what are we doing differently next time?
- How can you keep the momentum of a conference going after the closing remarks?
- New memes, new technologies, new thoughts: what are we doing differently next time?
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Category:
- Community / Social Networks
- Type:
- Panel
- Event:
- SXSW Interactive 2009
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