Speakers and Sponsors Join SCALE 3x

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Sponsors, speakers, panels, audience

Sponsors, speakers, panels, audience 05/07/2004 01:39 PM

Supernova and the recently announced Web 2.0 conference are throwbacks to the priorities of old conferences, of the eighties and nineties: sponsors, speakers, panels, audience.

Execs from high tech companies pay sponsorship fees, not disclosed, and guarantee that the content is paid advertising and that nothing real is said on stage. If you don't pay the sponsorship fee, you don't get a speaking slot. If you offend a sponsor, you don't get invited back.

These conferences are all spin, and empty bluster.

The organization of the conferences, with speakers and panels, guarantees that the audience falls asleep or is frustrated, waiting to make their point until they get to ask questions at the end of the session. Questions. What a silly concept. Look in the room. It's pretty likely the people who know the most are in the "audience."

By the end of the day people are in the hallway or outside, talking to each other, and when that gets boring, talking on cell phones.

Now that they have WiFi, at least there's an outlet for the audience's ideas, their blogs.

But as we learned at BloggerCon II, it's totally possible to do a conference without sponsors, without speakers, panels, without an audience. In this model, the rooms are full to capacity and even though there's WiFi, there was hardly any time to post to blogs. You can steal the design for this conference. And if you do, sign me up, I want to be there.

If you really want to get the most out of people's time, switch models. You don't need the money from the sponsors, and you don't need speakers, and you surely don't need an audience.

Hardy Instruments Introduces A Dual
Scale CompactLogix® Weigh Scale Module

Hardy Instruments Introduces A Dual
Scale CompactLogix® Weigh Scale Module 12/24/2004 12:14 PM
Hardy Instruments' Dual Scale CompactLogix® Weigh Scale Module is a PLC style module for use with Allen-Bradley® MicroLogix™ 1500 and CompactLogix™ controllers. [PRWEB Dec 23, 2004]

Super TV Sponsors

Super TV Sponsors 01/22/2004 10:18 AM
$2 million will buy you 30 seconds. Don't spare a penny for your thoughts.

MSN Sponsors Mensa

MSN Sponsors Mensa 03/19/2005 02:33 AM

i-mode Sponsors F1

i-mode Sponsors F1 01/30/2004 06:05 AM
Unstrung.com Jan 29 2004 8:25PM GMT

Sponsors 'manipulate' scientists

Sponsors 'manipulate' scientists 03/25/2005 06:28 AM
University scientific researchers are put under pressure to tailor their results to suit their sponsors, a survey finds.

uDevGames 2004 Looking For Sponsors

uDevGames 2004 Looking For Sponsors 07/12/2004 05:36 AM

NLnet sponsors Parrot

NLnet sponsors Parrot 04/19/2005 11:26 AM
Allison writes "NLnet, a non-profit organization supporting open source network technology research and development, announced on Friday that it will sponsor US $70,000 of Parrot development work. The funding will go to Leopold Tötsch who has been...

ActiveState Sponsors pVoice

ActiveState Sponsors pVoice 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
davorg writes "Jouke Visser has announced that ActiveState have agreed to sponsor the development of pVoice, an application which allows people with certain kinds of disability to communicate using a computer. Jouke initially started on the project to ...

Making Sponsors Walk the Plank

Making Sponsors Walk the Plank 06/05/2005 10:45 PM
Any company that tries to pull a fast one on an increasingly media-savvy populace should first consider the power of blogs.

Spymac sponsors new Mac game contest

Spymac sponsors new Mac game contest 06/05/2005 11:20 PM
For the next 21 days, Spymac and iDevGames invite Mac developers to pay homage to our OS of choice by creating a game which places the player at the top of the food chain in the new 21 Days Later: Predator game contest. Carlos Camacho of iDevGames says be it teeth, claw, poison, horns, cunning, blade or ballistics, it's time to make the predators prey in the new "mini" contest. First place prize is a free one-year subscription to Wheel and the Spymac Set. Second place will receive a free one-year subscription to Wheel and the Spymac Pack and third place will get a one-year subscription to the Wheel and any item from the Clothing Line at the Spymac Shop. Deadline for applications is June 16, 2005 and the game entry deadline is June 23, 2005. The contest is open to all developers, regardless of location and age, except for where prohibited by law.To enter the Predator contest, follow the instructions on this page: http://www.idevgames.com/forum/showthread.php?p=88435 iDevGames is a website committed to promoting the development of Mac gaming. The site hosts an annual developer contest and several "mini" game contests throughout the year.

Microsoft sponsors HITBSecConf2005 -
Bahrain

Microsoft sponsors HITBSecConf2005 -
Bahrain 04/04/2005 09:42 PM

Novell-SUSE Sponsors Openswan

Novell-SUSE Sponsors Openswan 06/19/2004 11:03 PM

FeedDemon sponsors IndiBlog Awards

FeedDemon sponsors IndiBlog Awards 01/03/2005 05:27 PM

I meant to blog this a while ago, but better late than never: Bradbury Software is among the sponsors of the IndiBlog awards.

Apple sponsors Post-NAB Roadshow

Apple sponsors Post-NAB Roadshow 05/17/2004 09:01 PM
Apple is sponsoring the Post-NAB Roadshow, which is running in 35 cities through June 30...

Push for private school sponsors

Push for private school sponsors 06/18/2004 10:20 PM
Ministers have been meeting the heads of private schools and other bodies interested in sponsoring new academies.

W3C Co-Sponsors 26th
Internationalization & Unicode
Conference

W3C Co-Sponsors 26th
Internationalization & Unicode
Conference 09/02/2004 01:47 PM
2004-09-02: The 26th Internationalization & Unicode Conference will be held 7-10 September in New York, NY, USA. Presenters include Team members Martin Dürst and Richard Ishida and participants in the W3C Internationalization Working Group. The event is the premier technical conference worldwide for software and Web internationalization. During four days of tutorials and presentations, leaders in the field will discuss internationalized Web addresses and markup, language and locale tagging, complex scripts, ICU, software internationalization and other topics. Read about Unicode and the W3C Internationalization Activity. (News archive)

Ecora Sponsors Patch Management eBook

Ecora Sponsors Patch Management eBook 09/21/2004 05:11 PM

MSN Sponsors Anti-Piracy Film Contest

MSN Sponsors Anti-Piracy Film Contest 06/17/2005 04:37 PM
MSN UK is holding a contest for both youths and adults aimed at teaching the evils of intellectual property theft - an issue Microsoft is constantly battling to protect its software. The short film competition, aptly titled Thought Thieves, requires entrants to make a commercial-length movie about how IP theft affects society.

W3C Sponsors Workshop on Constraints and
Capabilities for Web Services

W3C Sponsors Workshop on Constraints and
Capabilities for Web Services 07/02/2004 09:47 AM
XMLMania.com Jul 2 2004 1:53PM GMT

Microsoft sponsors HITBSecConf2005
planned for Bahrain

Microsoft sponsors HITBSecConf2005
planned for Bahrain 04/03/2005 05:45 AM
AME Info Apr 3 2005 9:04AM GMT

wired sponsors a creative commons
concert

wired sponsors a creative commons
concert 08/19/2004 02:24 AM
might be a nice reason to go back and visit NYC

Er... MS UK sponsors open source
deployment workshop

Er... MS UK sponsors open source
deployment workshop 02/11/2004 04:32 PM
Satan sponsors pope? MS UK sponsors own P45s?

W3C Co-Sponsors 23rd
Internationalization & Unicode
Conference

W3C Co-Sponsors 23rd
Internationalization & Unicode
Conference 02/26/2003 12:28 PM
26 February 2003: Registration is open for the 23rd Internationalization & Unicode Conference to be held 24-26 March in Prague, Czech Republic, near most major cities in Europe. Come and meet W3C Team members Martin Dürst, Richard Ishida, and Chris Lilley who are presenting. The event is the premier technical conference worldwide for software and Web internationalization. Read about Unicode and the W3C Internationalization Activity. (News archive)

Japan's NTT DoCoMo sponsors Renault F1
team

Japan's NTT DoCoMo sponsors Renault F1
team 01/30/2004 06:05 AM
AFP via Yahoo! Jan 29 2004 5:27PM GMT

AP: Hezbollah Sponsors Anti-Israel
Attacks (AP)

AP: Hezbollah Sponsors Anti-Israel
Attacks (AP) 04/11/2004 01:20 PM
AP - The Islamic group Hezbollah has become a key sponsor of Palestinian violence, funding suicide bombings that have killed dozens of Israelis in recent months, Israeli intelligence sources, Palestinian Authority officials and militants have told The Associated Press.

Olympus sponsors Montreal Grand Prix

Olympus sponsors Montreal Grand Prix 06/01/2004 08:16 PM
globetechnology.com Jun 1 2004 11:31PM GMT

"Warner Brothers Records sponsors
podcaster."

"Warner Brothers Records sponsors
podcaster." 03/23/2005 04:59 PM

AOL Latino Signs Major Brand Sponsors

AOL Latino Signs Major Brand Sponsors 01/26/2004 03:02 PM
Internet News Jan 26 2004 6:02PM GMT

BioVisability Sponsors the UC Berkeley
Global BioExecutive Program

BioVisability Sponsors the UC Berkeley
Global BioExecutive Program 03/14/2005 05:07 PM
As a continuation of its work with new and emerging bioscience companies, BioVisability, LLC is delighted to announce its sponsorship of Prologue International’s 2nd Annual BioExecutive program. Providing leadership and management training to leaders in the biotechnology industry, the program will take place at the University of California, Berkeley during April and May 2005. [PRWEB Mar 14, 2005]

Minnesota University Library Sponsors
Campus Blogging

Minnesota University Library Sponsors
Campus Blogging 05/31/2004 05:38 AM
Minnesota University Library Sponsors Campus Blogging
http://www.libra ryjournal.com/article/CA415382

Last month the University of Minnesota Library launched UThink, a program that offers free blogs to the university community, making UM among the first university libraries to become a "blogging center." UM says blogging is key to the library's mission, both for facilitating academic discourse and from a historical collection perspective. "We are not unique in using blogs in an academic environment, but we are unique in that we saw that the university libraries could lead the effort," says UM librarian Shane Nackenrud. "We are also excited about the potential that blogs hold to create communities of interest on campus. We can [combine] blogs based on department, college, major, research interest, or specific classes and bring people together who maybe would never have met if not for the system." Nackenrud says the UThink effort is currently staffed by two people -- Nackenrud and a programmer -- but that could increase if demand grows. The library has addressed the copyright issue by assigning all rights to blog content to its creators. A mechanism allows authors to license their content through a Creative Commons license.

iPodlounge sponsors Playlist Club event
in Philadelphia

iPodlounge sponsors Playlist Club event
in Philadelphia 03/19/2005 03:26 AM
iPodlounge has teamed up with the UK's Playlist Club to bring its unique iPod-DJing experience to the US, Playlist Philadelphia. Held on Monday, March 28, at The Khyber, 56 S. 2nd Street (2nd & Chestnut) at 8:00 p.m., Playlist Philadelphia will feature free admission and prizes courtesy of iPodlounge. "Playlist invites music lovers, mixers and makers to turn up with their best 15-minute set of tunes on their iPod and play their songs through the club PA for our audience of music fans and critical judges. The best DJs on the night win great prizes, and judges get a free drink on us."

AIfIA sponsors first scandinavian
conference on information architecture

AIfIA sponsors first scandinavian
conference on information architecture 12/02/2003 01:26 AM

Noble Systems Sponsors ATA Compliance
Seminar Series

Noble Systems Sponsors ATA Compliance
Seminar Series 09/16/2004 03:12 AM
Noble Systems Corporation, a global leader in contact center technology solutions, and the ATA present the Compliance Seminar Series to promote contact center legislation compliance. The ATA’s “CYA” (Cover Your Assets) Seminar series, with dates in 10 cities in the U.S. and Canada, is the only comprehensive seminar for virtually all state and federal call center regulations. Noble Systems will offer a brief presentation on technology solutions to help companies meet the legal requirements. Visit www.ataconnect.org or www.noblesys.com to learn more. [PRWEB Sep 16, 2004]

"Round Two" Launches Web Site, Sponsors
Popular Firefox Add-Ons

"Round Two" Launches Web Site, Sponsors
Popular Firefox Add-Ons 04/12/2005 02:17 AM
New startup will offer innovative products and services to Firefox users, while sponsoring development of FlashGot, Bandwidth Tester, ExtensionsMirror and other Firefox-related projects. [PRWEB Apr 12, 2005]

Aladdin Purchased, Becomes Allume,
Sponsors TidBITS (16-Aug-2004; 3.5K)

Aladdin Purchased, Becomes Allume,
Sponsors TidBITS (16-Aug-2004; 3.5K) 08/16/2004 08:01 PM

NaturalGasStocks.com Sponsors the C.K.
Cooper & Company Annual Small Cap Oil &
Gas Conference

NaturalGasStocks.com Sponsors the C.K.
Cooper & Company Annual Small Cap Oil &
Gas Conference 02/01/2005 09:05 PM
Market Wire Feb 1 2005 8:23PM GMT

Dubai Internet City sponsors IT
Exhibition for the youth, by Emirates...

Dubai Internet City sponsors IT
Exhibition for the youth, by Emirates... 03/22/2005 05:01 PM
Ameinfo.com - Tue Mar 22, 12:06 pm GMT

Sencore Sponsors ISF/HAA/RTI Home
Theater Certification Classes in Dallas

Sencore Sponsors ISF/HAA/RTI Home
Theater Certification Classes in Dallas 02/01/2005 08:46 PM
Sencore Electronics is sponsoring a five day “Maximizing Home Theater Performance” certification seminar in Dallas, Texas. In this seminar you will learn what makes a good home theater, including pitfalls to avoid, check lists to follow, and ways to build your installation business. You’ll learn how the entire room ambiance including the video image, sound quality, room acoustics, and RF distribution are as much a part of the home theater environment as the electronic components themselves. Plus, you’ll receive extensive hands on training on how to efficiently use the right tools, and make measurements that eliminate guesswork and subjective decisions. [PRWEB Jan 27, 2005]
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