Comments on: Is Live Blogging Good For Conferences? http://www.princanada.com/is-live-blogging-good-for-conferences?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-live-blogging-good-for-conferences Daily Source for the Public Relations Industry in Canada Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:42:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: David Leonhardt SEO http://www.princanada.com/is-live-blogging-good-for-conferences/comment-page-1#comment-64 David Leonhardt SEO Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:16:12 +0000 http://www.princanada.com/?p=129#comment-64 It all depends how live "live" is. The "live" that you are describing, minute-by-minute, is a distraction and I believe it takes a lot away from the conference. That being said, I am not sure it is quite as one-sided. I actually spend a lot of time scribbling notes by hand at a conference (much easier than balancing a laptop), so even without blogging there is a fair amount of "trying to get every single comment made". Some people take no notes, some people live blog, others are somewhere in between. The interesting question will be when laptops all come equipped with good quality microphones and voice to text software...no more distracting clicking and verbatim transcription of every word, save for a few errors the software makes. It all depends how live “live” is. The “live” that you are describing, minute-by-minute, is a distraction and I believe it takes a lot away from the conference. That being said, I am not sure it is quite as one-sided. I actually spend a lot of time scribbling notes by hand at a conference (much easier than balancing a laptop), so even without blogging there is a fair amount of “trying to get every single comment made”. Some people take no notes, some people live blog, others are somewhere in between.

The interesting question will be when laptops all come equipped with good quality microphones and voice to text software…no more distracting clicking and verbatim transcription of every word, save for a few errors the software makes.

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