A focus on conferences

Conferences are still valuable for established attendees and potential new audiences, and the overall audience for events can be increased, helping alleviate competition between professional organisations. In addition professional organisations need to avoid conferences being run-of-the-mill, and taking their audience for granted. They need to widen their primary and secondary audiences by helping potential attendees and presenters find out about events, evaluate those they might attend, and benefit in other ways from participating in; professionalising presentation and documentation; facilitating more controversial discussion; improving media relations (including with informal commentators). Some of the solutions involved re-designing and reprogramming events, greater inter-organisational cooperation, technical developments, and greater intelligence when thinking about audiences and stakeholders. Author Keywords Conference formats, conference documentation, conference discussion, con...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Nico Macdonald
• Keywords: CHI 2005, Conference Attendees, Human Computer Interaction, Keywords Conference Formats, Potential Attendees