Comments on: What about the backchannel?

By: Naked Bits: Inspirational Technology to play with

Naked Bits: Inspirational Technology to play with — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:32:08 +0000

[...] = ‘nkdbits’; Yesterday at MoMo Amsterdam #10 a new experiment was held: The public had been asked previously to submit ideas for presentations [...]

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ULURU blog » Blog Archive » What on earth is Pecha-Kucha? — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:07:45 +0000

[...] at MoMo Amsterdam #10 a new experiment was held: The public had been asked previously to submit ideas for presentations [...]

By: Roel van Bommel

Roel van Bommel — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:08:09 +0000

I think it would be a shame if the backchannel would be subject to moderation. As Gerd Leonhard said, control is out.

The backchannel is currently functioning as sort of collective hive. It’s awesome because it helps in getting a view of the audience’s thoughts in realtime. So don’t change it (yet) in favour of censorship I’m inclined to say.

In case of moderating the backchannel I’d suggest to only ban those who seriously misuse the backchannel (i.e. marketing/commercials, anal squirts etc.) and leave criticism and real comments (useful or not, who is to say) intact as long as they appear genuine.

Furthermore I think it’s up to every speaker him/herself whether or not they’d like to see the realtime feed during their speech. If so this possibility should be made available.

By: Kjeld

Kjeld — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:03:01 +0000

@billywanzi User can’t handle this kind of “power” and it leads to miss use..

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:00:33 +0000

Basically as a speaker I tried to ignore the backchannel to keep concentration, as a listener / viewer I get distracted from the speaker unwillingly. As the backchannel is to innovate interaction with the audiance its content should be used by the speaker, this is not at all the fact so …… its useless I would say. Rethink audience interaction using a mobile phone but then really involve it in the speech or leave it.

Seeing the response on the 30 second elevator pitch, I would say the crowd should rethink its backchannel banter and step up when they have the chance to tell their story.

By: chris ping

chris ping — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:48:46 +0000

i’m with billy on this one

By: @billywanzi

@billywanzi — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:05:02 +0000

I think it’s clear where I stand on the subject, but Chrizzieman makes a valid point where it comes to using the input of the backchannel. I would love to see more integration of the input within the sessions. That way MoMo also can give people who can’t attend and are following the livestream the chance to ask the speakers questions or participate in future polls! In any case use the input of the backchannel in a productive and constructive way ;-)

- @billywanzi

By: Chrizzieman

Chrizzieman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:43:04 +0000

Helemaal eens. Het is een backstabbing channel geworden. Oplossing: moderator bekijkt welke tweets (vragen?) met #momo interessant zijn en plaatst ze (via retweet)gedoseerd op het backchannel.

Het kan ook zonder backchannel; dagvoorzitter kan dan na afloop van preso DE (beste) vraag stellen die via twitter is binnengekomen. Voorkomt ook dat niemand een vraag durft te stellen als er door de dagvoorzitter gevraagd wordt om slechts 1 vraag zoals gisteren meerdere malen gebeurde.Helemaal eens. Het is een backstabbing channel geworden. Oplossing: moderator bekijkt welke tweets (vragen?) met #momo interessant zijn en plaatst ze (via retweet)gedoseerd op het backchannel.

ps: deze reactie eerder al geplaatst op wizpr.nl

By: @billywanzi

@billywanzi — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:36:24 +0000

@Kjeld I disagree! The power of the backchannel is to give the audience a way to participate directly. If you close off that option by selecting some ‘elevated’ users, the dynamic interaction becomes a ‘walled garden’ which is accessible by only the chosen few. I do agree with Kjeld about the fact a speaker should have the option to choose if the backchannel is available during his or her keynote (although I can’t imagine anyone saying no ;-))

@MoMo Please don’t the actions of the few spoil it for the rest of us. This way they win in the end…

- @billywanzi

By: Kjeld

Kjeld — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:26:31 +0000

Use hand picked (and briefed about the guidelines) elevated users that are in the crowd to moderate the channel.
This is similair to what user fora do. tweakers.net etc.

If this is not possible, than just ask the speeker if he/she wan’t it available weeks before.

Also use a speeker to address the specific questions to the speaker to get more interaction. Ask people with many tweets/querys to the channel to stand-up and ask the questions in person at the event.