Everyone here read about @media2006? Start saving those pretty pounds my lovelies, it’s going to be a great time. The list of speakers is wonderful, http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2006/

Actually I think it was in part our fault. Setting expectations is important, as is meeting them. So, if that’s the outline we provided, that’s what we really were striving to deliver.

It takes finesse, it’s not easy, and yeah, I ultimately agree: Shorten the list of topics, and try for two days in the future ;-)

Yes, it was a hard task to squeeze in the advertised content into one day.

Not criticising what was discussed, more over I was commenting that the advertised scheduled seminar that paying attendees have come along to take part in covered 4/5ths of what was advertised as the content.

I suggest “topics from” next time out if there is too much to cover.

Again, no complaints at all about what was covered – but if you ordered a book from amazon that was a great read but had 20 out of 100 pages… ;-)

Two days would have been perfect for so much content and the massively helpful interaction.

Again, really not after seeming it was a major complaint – more a case of wanting more of the good stuff that was actually advertised (and that’s certainly not Molly and Andy’s fault!).

True, I was on the second day when you had gone through the material the day before. I guess the more you go through it, the better it will get.

There is so much to talk about! And yes, there’s no question that the first day did not have the timing the second day did. We definitely paced the Friday better, based on audience response.  However, the Thursday people got details that Friday’s children didn’t get.

I think a one day workshop is a harsh task. I think two days is better for a workshop model. It’s not as exhausting as a conference but allows room for discussion and detail as well as the networking benefits.

The feedback is essential. I always appreciate constructive criticism and I’m always glad to learn something new.  So thanks.

M

I’m repeating myself and almost certainly overdoing the posts percentage so I’ll sign off by endorsing acceptance of the clock beating the presenters on purely honourable grounds!

?what I got was so helpful I?m gutted I might have enjoyed being handed further knowledge? – I think this sums it up perfectly.

It’s only because the stuff we did get was so perfect in pitch and quality that it makes you feel like you’ve really missed out on something.

Had the workshop not been as good as it was, we’d probably have just been happy to get out of there after seven hours staring at a projection screen.

Hope I’m explaining myself properly here.

This is by no means a dig at Andy or Molly as I fully appreciate that presenting these slides to a live audience for the first time would be completely different to running through them in preperation. You can never fully anticipate which parts of the presentation will provoke a response, or how time consuming that response may be.

I guess self-employment and paying myself made me a bit more jumpy than some who’d been handed a day out the office and been paid to go ;-)

I’ve no doubt I enjoyed awesome value by the way, I’d prefer my stance to be seen as “what I got was so helpful I’m gutted I might have enjoyed being handed further knowledge”.