Category : informations

Using crowdvine was great, but I felt that a bridge to real world socializing was missing. Maybe some group dynamics activities could help there..

There are still 38 (!!) slides missing... And 38 excluding the missing key notes slides...
Cause it wasnt possible to join every presentation i will at least have a look in the slides. And there are some presentations i joined i also have no slides yet.

I hate to check slideshare every day to search if there is some slide uploaded in the meantime. Also slideshare isnt the kind of platform which is well structured.

How we go on? From now on, i have to check slideshare each day, hoping that in the next days/weeks/months all slides will be available? Ok, it is just friday, but the conference is over. i hope there is someone who really is responsible for...

For the next conference i wish to get informed, or have a direct access and/or download on the Web2.0-page.

Why not make the session information easily printable from the website? This would have been useful before setting off to Berlin. Instead it did not print well and did not work well at all in Firefox. This seems bad for a conference with a design stream that talks about usability and accessibility.

Most places seem to have a list of delegates so you can find out whether there is anybody you need to meet. Here you were forced into the social network.

Local English speakers meet up for drinks every Thursday night in Berlin. More information on the forums at toytowngermany.com. I'd link it if this damn iPhone could copy and paste.

Perhaps some better 'tagging' of each session would improve the selection of wich sessions to go to.
(the current categories, don't hack it)

I found it difficult to make out if a session was going to be a general overview of the subject, or a more indepth technical (handson) experience.

Sometimes I wanted some general idea of a subject I didn't know about, and then it turned out to be a rather theoretical presentation for insiders that already knew what it did.

A number of people have commented about the difficulties in networking. Perhaps it might be a good idea in the future to:

1) make them bigger so you can see people's names
2) color-code them by occupation/interest so you can see at a glance who is who
3) icons: country flags for one, would be helpful so, again you can see who is who

Since this is a Web 2.0 conference, I think a healthy challenge would be to try and apply the principles we are familiar with online to the physical world. Like Kathy has asked, I think the reason so many people are primarily here is to meet each other and forge the offline relationship that still feeds the online ones.

Other ideas for the badges? (Thanks to Gleb Kaplun for initially suggesting badge color-coding)

In a conference room, there is IMHO more experience and skills in the public than on the stage.

It would be great to have a way to know all attendants in the room, ie locate people in the room and relate them to their favorite social network profile.

Who's my neighbor ? What's his interest ? Where does he come from ?

I'd like to know.

After a presentation not every presenters make their slides public because they don't want to make it globally accessible or because they want to publish it on their own blog.

That's ok, but at least people who attend a given conference should be able to get it simply.

So it would be great to provide a way to make it possible.

Hello,

Give a royal place for the Women's Startup !

On a screen, give the name of the people who are at the exibition !

It's always difficult to know who's who in an exibition !
Perhaps you can use some differents colors for the badge.
Yellow for the startup, Blue for the VC, ...