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Social Media and Planning, or My Passion and Frustration Story in Progress

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Ideas, Unconferences | tagged as , , , , , , ,

During BarCamp, I attended Boris Mann and Mark Busse’s session on Balancing Passion and Frustration – but I stepped out to chat with someone across the room in the middle of the session, and now I’m kicking myself a bit for it. Near the start, I offered the story of how I turned one of [...]

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Evaluating Diversity in Unconference Participation

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in Unconferences | tagged as , , , ,

One thing I’m thinking about today as we continue to cobble together the details on the SkyTrain Unconference is diversity. This flared up as a topic of discussion in the Web 2.0 world more generally a while back, with many high-profile bloggers like Jason Kottke looking at the gender breakdown of speakers at conferences, and [...]

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