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Yesterday, Oct. 8th, I went to Web 2.1: A BrainJam for the rest of us. Since I had some errands to do beforehand, I got there a bit late, 2:30 pm to the 1:00 pm start time. After signing in at the KRON TV front desk, Brian Shields of The Bay Area is Talking blog met me, bringing me up to the event.
The speed Brainjamming section was well underway. Described on Chris Hueur’s blog:
Odd chain of events but I saw a DVD Boxset of Sex in the City today, which somehow reminded me of speed dating, which made me think…
What if we did speed BrainJamming?
OK, so this may not be for tomorrow but could be a very interesting experiment and perhaps it should not be dismissed for the seeming silliness just offhand. Imagine the basic table setup of speed dating bur replace the table with a ‘soapbox’ where people who have something cool to talk about can introduce themselves and an issue they care about passionately. The other 1 or 2 people then offer suggestions or ideas or just ask clarifying questions to dig deeper and learn more about it. 5 minute rounds with everyone encouraged to share equally. especially those who normally would not speak up in a typical large conference.
Linked at the top of this entry is the video I took of one of the speed BrainJamming groups.
More video will be posted in the coming days.
that was a cool recap. I’m digging the video.