I’m a halfbreed. One part production groupie and one part digital media junkie. I’ve made a feature length film, more shorts than I can count (or remember) and I did all of that before the internet became a “thing” to participate in. Since then I’ve compressed video, authored DVDs, streamed live events, created wireframes, altered designs in Photoshop, written XML and, most of all, had a blast doing everything. I’m a halfbreed – and I’m okay with that.
Virtual Event Platforms are not Virtual Events, the presentation
What does that title mean, anyway? At the Virtual Edge Summit this week I presented a concept that was echoed over and over again by other speakers: objectives first, technology second. The entire idea behind my talk was that you cannot expect the technology provided by a virtual event platform to magically create an event experience. Instead, you need to define an experience based on your objectives and then look to technology to enable it. Check out the free video of the session as well as the slide deck posted below.

