{"id":161,"date":"2008-02-05T07:20:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T23:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=161"},"modified":"2008-03-19T10:03:50","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T02:03:50","slug":"the-un-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"The Un-conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the weekend I attended Kiwi Foo Camp<\/a>. It was damn interesting on several counts:<\/p>\n

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  1. The people there were all fascinating in their own right<\/li>\n
  2. The format meant that people could hold sessions on their passions. Those that were also passionate contributed in such a way that added value<\/li>\n
  3. The venue was a standard school, with no fancy trappings or dressing up. It was proof that of that old photography adage I like “the last thing you should add to a great photo is a sunset.” (However the same adage does not always apply to nudist beaches – especially ones frequented by overweight European tourists – where there are definitely some things that need dressing up)<\/li>\n
  4. People camped. Literally. I took my tent. People who have bank accounts which require calculators with extra wide screens also camped.<\/li>\n
  5. It was casual. Being a New Zealand summer, shorts, t-shirts and bare feet were often the order of the day.<\/li>\n
  6. Invite only increases the quality of the event immensely.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There’s pages you could write on the implications for innovation events, but I’ll leave it at that. Next time you are planning an event, consider the above list.<\/p>\n

    By the way, raving about the weekend<\/a> seems to be par for the course…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    At the weekend I attended Kiwi Foo Camp. It was damn interesting on several counts: The people there were all fascinating in their own right The format meant that people could hold sessions on their passions. Those that were also passionate contributed in such a way that added value The venue was a standard school, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}