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BarCamp Vancouver Session - Feedback?
By leelefever on August 16, 2007 - 11:05am
BarCamp Vancouver is about to lift off and I'm so excited. Vancouver is easily one of my most favorite cities in the world and happens to have a load of great people - many of which are planners of the event.
I was there was for Northern Voice and Moose Camp - the unconference in the Spring. For that event I signed up for a session early and then remember it the night before the event. Luckily Nancy White was there to co-host the talk on "New Rules for the New Communities" which made all the difference.
Since then, our videos have taken over our lives and I just signed up for a session at Bar Camp. See what you think of this title:
Making Paper Work in Video - A discussion on the role of simplicity, plain English, basic tools and technical amateurism in the creation of online videos that go places.
Does that sound interesting? What would you want to know from such a session? Any suggestions are welcome...
kiss
i'd keep it simpler even still... something like 'simplicity sells: how to use simplicity and creativity to create movements online' or something. i dunno. sounds interesting tho. :)
it'll be great to see you guys.
BarCamp
We had a BarCamp here is Perth, it was excellent. However to answer your question, readers probably need more details. At our BarCamp the concept was that at the beginning of the day everyone wrote their topic on the board. Each person had 20 minutes to talk.
So if similar to our BarCamp your title will need to be smaller because it won't fit on the board :). How about "All about videos in Plain English"? I would find it hard to believe people won't know about your videos. So a very direct title will tell them exactly what it is about.
Sue
Simplicity
I agree with the other comments...you create wonderful videos on relevant topics, simply. But your title is a mouthful! And sounds more like an academic thesis than a 90 minute discussion.
All the words become lost and don't matter as much when your point is paper is worth a thousand words!
Paper in Video - A discussion of simplicity.