http://www.princanada.com/is-live-blogging-good-for-conferences/ Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:34:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.princanada.com/is-live-blogging-good-for-conferences/#comment-69 David Leonhardt SEO Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:16:12 +0000 http://www.princanada.com/?p=129#comment-69 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. n nThe 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. n nThe 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.

]]>