I don't know about you, but I'm definitely starting to feel 'virtual event fatigue' ... there are so many events at the moment (several every week, even sometimes every day) that it's a bit overwhelming.
Another problem is also that virtual events require you to dedicate time. It's at a specific time ("Join us at 2 PM Thursday"), so it's very hard to manage. If it was instead 'on-demand', I could watch/listen whenever it fitted into my schedule instead.
I truly believe this is something we need to change. Virtual events are great, but we are currently doing them like 1980s TV shows (Watch this at 8PM Friday!!) 
We also need to think about formats. I just watched this ... and it was great:
But there was absolutely no reason for it to be a Zoom event. This could be done much better as a podcast, which would probably attract a much bigger audience.
https://twitter.com/risj_oxford/status/1334073267762688003
But there was absolutely no reason for it to be a Zoom event. This could be done much better as a podcast, which would probably attract a much bigger audience.
Imagine if a podcast was only available to be listened to, on 1 PM Wednesday for one hour ... and if you couldn't make it, well... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is what we are doing with virtual events. We are taking the limitations of the physical world and applying them to digital.
This is what we are doing with virtual events. We are taking the limitations of the physical world and applying them to digital.
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