Thread by @magsamond

<>🧵 of appreciation and admiration >
#SnapCon21 took place last week online and the @SnapCloud organising team upped the online conference game in terms of making it easy to navigate - I jotted down some of notable features
snapcon.org/conferences/20…

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a daily email arrived on with reminders and links directly to each conference space

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on the conference website the scheduling had a direct line to ‘what’s on now’ and ‘what’s next’, a rolling timeline, with time elapsed indicated

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in small print for every single session there was a link to a pop out ‘your timezone’ - a lifesaver as we were convening from china around to California [which meant at meal breaks we were heading off for breakfast to supper and everything in between]

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a relaxation space called “The Hallway” [using the platform OhYeh] was open all the time - loads of spaces from ‘hotel bar’ to ‘lakeside campfire’ - reminded me of The Cantina at #cesicon and #ictedu

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a dynamic keynote format which used pre-recorded video made by the speaker, who then was in the audience with us, answering questions for us in the chat - very imaginative, very compelling, very good idea

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one of three more ‘unconference’ spaces: there was a zero hour invitation to attendees to Share Your Project via an upload facility, for a live ‘show and tell’ session on the final day

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another unconference ‘unexpected delight’ - a visit to the Cyber University (imagine a programmable Gathertown!) which custom built for après-conference

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the unconference part of Snap!Con offers spaces for Birds Of A Feather [already shortened to “BoF” which has a ring to it] so that groups can put out a call to get together by interest or practice … no agenda until you get to the space - Turtlestitch BoF pictured here:

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the best shortcut of all for navigating the ether was the button on each event in the schedule to go directly to join in

@SnapCloud Many thanks to the organising committee of #SnapCon21 - as well as all of the above, the content was terrific. But all of the above made it easier to spend four days in screen mode without getting too fatigued </>🧵