If you read the blog on Friday, you’ll know that I attended the sold-out Blog Potomac - billed as an unconference (see…there I am wearing the shirt). I’d never attended an unconference before, but I knew that it meant that there’d be a little more audience participation.  Which is kind of fitting, when you’re doing a conference about social media.

The majority of the speakers spoke for 10 – 15 minutes about their background, specialties, and involvement in social media.  Then, each session was turned over to the floor for Q&A. As you would have seen from the sessions I wrote up on Friday, this meant that there were lots of questions, and in some cases unpredictability about the direction of that particular session. For example, the last session of the day on ethics, actually ended up with a floor discussion on the legality of content scraping.

All in all, I’d have to say that the conference was well put together by Debbie Weil and Geoff Livingston.  It was just the right size, the venue was great.  The only problem was that usual conference bugbear – poor wifi (if you were following my liveblogging, you’ll have noticed that it ceased after the 3rd session, with the other sessions going live later in the day).

(Note to self: While being smug in congratulating yourself for bringing a spare battery to get through the day, make sure that both are fully charged the night before).

One problem that I can see for BlogPotomac next year, is that we’ll have to see how well it scales when the audience size ratchets up, which I’m sure it will.

Related posts:

1. Blog Potomac Speaker Kami Huyse
2. Blog Potomac Speaker KD Paine
3. Blog Potomac Opening Keynote – Lionel Menchaca
4. Blog Potomac Speaker – Maggie Fox
5. Blog Potomac Kicks Off

Tags: Blog Potomac, blogpotomac, social media conference, unconference
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