There are still a lot of notes in my One Note file about Reboot 9.0 to work through. You might think of an abrupt crash having followed my rebooting in Copenhagen, to stretch the metaphor…
Anyhow, one of the things about the conference that I really liked was the cut-down Pecha Kucha format of micropresentations (a term used I think due to the copyright on Pecha Kucha) that peppered the packed programme at Reboot 9.0.
Basically people get to make their point, their pitch, their whatever, in the time that it takes for an automated slides presentation to move through 15 slides allowing a strict twenty seconds per slide. You see the clock counting down from 20 in the bottom right hand corner of the slide as soon as it appears…
It was an excellent way to do lots of things including: letting people pitch their upcoming conference session, recap on sessions they’d already facilitated, throw in their own pet ideas, share a brilliant idea. There’s a guarantee implicit in the format that no one will hog the mike, go in too long, bore people or lose their thread – I love it.
If I were organising a conference, especially one with parallel tracks of sessions and conversations such as Reboot, I would think about getting all the presenters on a given day to do micropresentations up front. This would help people decide which sessions are going to be best for them and also to grab key concepts and ideas from ones they won’t be able to attend, which would enrich the whole thought stew going on.
Anyway, I’m seriously thinking about organising an evening session around these in Brighton soon. I know there’s a Pecha Kucha group already but there’s probably room for a media-y / geeky one too…
Anyway, here are a couple of pics of micropresentations from Reboot I enjoyed:
: : There’s a good 20 minute podcast from Nicole Simon interviewing Guy Dickinson about the micropresentation sessions in which he facilitated at Reboot.
: : : BTW does anyone know of a good plug-in or piece of software to do these (including the whole countdown thing) in Powerpoint? Reboot was utterly Mac dominated but I am chained to Windows.
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