Full Circle Associates

There is still a lot to debrief (and more interviews to share here if they are of interest) and I'm running on a severe sleep deficit myself, but I want to remind myself to post some of the initial observations about trying to bring a rich F2F conference experience to a virtual audience to complement their online interactions. I won't finish now, but here is a start.

• We can bridge from the online to the F2F by bringing content, pictures, videos, chats, documents and live blogging really well. Participants kept saying they felt like they were with us in Miami. The blogging from 6 of us particularly was well received. I tended to blog verbatim, while others posted summaries or personal reflections. The combination of styles was really a great thing. It is good we decided not to settle on one format. We each brought a different slice online.
  
• It is much harder to bridge online to F2F. We provided daily snippets of what was going on online, so people were very aware of it, but they were totally immersed in the F2F. Understandably, they did not seem to have time or inclination to go online. I think this is one of the reality checks if we continue to format F2F conferences in the traditional ways.
  
• We could reinvent both forms and find ways to weave them together. This would be very interesting to pursue!
  
• Working with great people is SUCH a pleasure. Gabriel Shirly from http://www.bigmindmedia.com, Bob Stilger of http://www.berkana.org, Tracy Robinson, Rich Parker, Soren Kaplan, and the 10 volunteer reporters and photographers from AI Consulting were just the best.

There is more. But no more active brain cells for tonight. Remind me to share another day of the next hybrid online/offline/online events I'm working on. Two more starting this week through November! WOo hoo!