After the event - YOU produce the slides

One of the challenges of buzzy events is how to capture some of the conversation in a way that adds to the experience of those involved, rather than becoming a chore, and spreads the words.  Matt O'Neill and I ran a workshop - well, more of a group conversation - at the recent NESTA Uploading Innovation conference, which was captured here on video by Lloyd Davis. No effort on our part ... but I didn't recall much immediately after. I wondered later if this might generally be a problem for unconferencing in some circumstances. My post led to some further discussion about expectations, preparation, even moving it all into Second Life.
Matt has just got in touch again to show me the results of a half day workshop that his outfit  Activ-Media ran for the 'KIN' network, a 'subsidiary' of Warwick Business School.
Participants split into four groups and addressed issues around building communities of practice, transferring tacit knowledge, the benefits of knowledge management, and the ways that people learn. You can see the results in Matt's blog post - Knowledge and Innovation Workshop: Outcomes.
However, Matt didn't leave the session with the equivalent of a set of bullet points on flip-charts - he asked the participants to produce a set of slides, with voice-over, which you can see here. Matt says it's an experiment to test his theory that if people produce something tangible together, that can be referred back to and shared with their peers, it's going to be a much better learning experience as well as a way of sharing the knowledge.
Update: Matt has more here from the Corporate Podcast Summit.

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Comments

[Michele]

I like this a lot, David. I just reorganized an entire training session to end up this way, where the participants will create their own handouts because I think that the more engaged people are in creating actual work product, the better off they are. Sometimes the challenge has been getting them to actually do the work. As a trainer, they expect me to just feed them the information and depending on the group, can get pretty crabby about not just being able to sit back and listen to me yammer on.

I think it's fabulous to see this kind of thinking about how to end a workshop.

[Ron Lubensky]

Won't work for every situation, but for events where participants are already knowledgeable and ready to tell their stories, and willing to learn from each other, this is a terrific idea!

[John Humphries]

Interesting mixture of construction and deconstruction. Probably one of a range of mix and match opportunites that new media will bring forward will bring forward for all sorts of organisations. Thanks for shairing that on the wider web.

[carl reynolds]

I like the idea. Forgive the colour of my critique. I didn't like the product - death by powerpoint reaches out its menacing mandibles. And I couldn't relate to the 'content', tho' I realise I'm not supposed to.

But I also thought that you'd been doing this for sometime David. On a weekly basis I observe that you come back from a conference/meeting or workshop, write a pithy review, reflect on it, include a pic, link to some talking heads and then have a chat about it via comments now and again.

Now that's got the juice of interactivity in it.

[David Wilcox]

I saw Matt's original blog item listing the results of the workshop, but it wasn't until he Skyped me with a link to the presentations produced by the people there that it clicked.
I'm delighted (for Matt) that the idea has caught people's interest, and with the comments (thanks folks) given me a nudge to think how new media opens up new ways of doing things. More ideas please!