Google Ops Presentation and Meeting Formats

[Brent Chapman]

At 6:03 PM -0600 1/27/06, Jim Hickstein wrote:
>>Yes, that's my feeling as well.  The talks were fine, the spread 
>>was great, and the venue was good (though having to be escorted 
>>in/out through security is always an annoyance), but the audience 
>>wasn't well managed (by itself, by the organizers, or by the 
>>speakers).
>
>How about the median BayLISA meeting?  Am I hallucinating the bit 
>about raising hands and waiting?

In my experience, it depends on how big the audience is.  The bigger 
the audience, the more likely folks are to raise their hands and 
wait.  With a smaller audience, it gets more informal and 
interactive, and that's fine with me.

I didn't see too many people just blurting things out last night; 
folks were raising their hands and waiting to be called on.  The 
problem was, the speakers were calling on _everybody_ before moving 
on to the next slide.  Like I said before, I would have suggested 
taking just a few questions after each slide, and then moving on, 
even if you don't get to everybody who had their hand up.  That way, 
you don't end up rushing through the ending, which is usually where 
the meat of the talk is.


-Brent
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