{"id":162,"date":"2006-06-30T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2006\/06\/brainjamsorg-organizes-unconferences.html"},"modified":"2006-06-30T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T23:10:00","slug":"brainjamsorg-organizes-unconferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/brainjamsorg-organizes-unconferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Brainjams.org organizes "unconferences""},"content":{"rendered":"

I talked to Chris Heuer from Brainjams.org<\/a> about the very interesting work he’s doing with organizing “unconferences.” I didn’t know what a barcamp<\/a> was before today (an admission that drew gasps from some of the hipper Gnomedex attendees) but it’s a cool concept. A barcamp is basically a conference that’s organized on the fly. Everyone has to contribute but no one gets to run the event. Kind of a physical blogosphere, really.<\/p>\n

The concept reminds me a little of birds-of-a-feather sessions that have been part of user conferences for many years. People basically suggest topics on a white board and then self-organize the discussion. Barcamps are longer – typically one or two days – and more intense. There’s also a post-event conversation that continues online that BOF sessions rarely have. It’s very Web 2.0.<\/p>\n

Brainjams is about to organize a multi-city barcamp tour. If they come to town, I’m definitely going to try it.<\/p>\n

Categories: blog_culture<\/a>, social_media<\/a>, Gnomedex<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I talked to Chris Heuer from Brainjams.org about the very interesting work he’s doing with organizing “unconferences.” I didn’t know what a barcamp was before today (an admission that drew gasps from some of the hipper Gnomedex attendees) but it’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-2C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}