Here is the PPT slide deck from a recent presentation to The Higher Education User Group (HEUG). Innovative Techniques In Conference Formats For The Participatory Culture View more presentations from Jeff Hurt. For more information consider these past posts: How Participatory Cultures Are Changing Conferences, Events And Associations The One Technology Tool Most Associations And Conferences Need Today 14 Presentation Techniques That Encourage Maximum Learning, Participation And Memory … [Read more...]
The One Technology Tool Most Associations And Conferences Need Today
Today's networked individuals have shaped the Internet into something especially hospitable to an emerging class of citizens - the participatory class. The Internet pioneers built into its structure, organization, model of governance and sustainability, the potential for creation, collaboration, sharing and interactive learning. One of the most important characteristics of this Web 2.0 World is its capacity to allow for a worldwide community as well as subsets to build likeminded tribes and … [Read more...]
How Participatory Cultures Are Changing Conferences, Events And Associations
Roughly two-thirds of adult Internet users have created content and media for the web. The number of adults who use the Internet to broadcast or narrowcast to several people or more has gone from less than a tenth of the population in the 1990s to more than half the entire population in the early part of 2010. (Networked Creators, Pew Internet & American Life Project) Nearly three quarters (73%) of online teens and an equal number (72%) of Millennials (18-29) use social networking sites to … [Read more...]