Comments on: Hearts of Darkness: A EventCamp Stream Apocalypse

By: Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 04:10:41 +0000

I was fiddling with our redesign on this site and loved going back and reading this post. I also enjoyed reading about other hybrid events from folks that have done similar events and released PR statements and are on every website imaginable saying about how groundbreaking and rising to another level it was. We now produce Hybrid events meetings regularly and I did learn a ton from this event. PLus the technology has gotten much better. It’s really okay to make mistakes if you make them one time. Best way to learn. I wish more peopel would put on EventCamps in there cities.

By: Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:00:24 +0000

oops — see above-

By: Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:59:52 +0000

Pat – It was really great to meet you in person. It was such a great learning experience. I cant wait for the next one! I really appreciate the comment.

Jeff-
You are a great friend and such a smart cat. I learn something new from you every time we talk. I also enjoy our banter. I look forward to watching your progress and fame grow as you lead us in educating and engaging audiences for events and meetings. I also really appreciate your comment here on the blog.

Cheers

Mike

By: Jeff Hurt

Jeff Hurt — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:16:29 +0000

Mike:

As one of the event organizers, we knew you were under some incredible stress…and I even added more to it. Powerstips anyone?

I thought you did a great job and handled the stress wondefully. It was a wonderful learning experience for all of us and you pulled off some amazing things.

Thank you for being on our planning team and helping us pull this off!

By: Pat Ahaesy

Pat Ahaesy — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:32:42 +0000

Mike,

I love this post and revelation of what was happening. You are so brave to tackle this with no budget and something so new. You did a great job and the lessons that you learned and outlined above should be heeded by all of us.

loved meeting; everyone and finally meeting you. You are quite talented.

Love the comment about the electrical outlets.

On to either EC10.2 or EC11.

By: Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:03:57 +0000

Thanks Steve. The online software that our sponsor LiveStream gave us is really cool. I wish I had more time to fool with it before the actual event. I am so glad you watched and enjoyed it.

Will we see you at the next event?

Mike

By: Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:02:15 +0000

Traci- It was great meeting you! It was a fantastic experience and I also look forward to Summer Camp! LOL

Really it was people like you that made it work. If not it would have been Mike, Jeff, Jessica, Christina and I getting drunk on the live stream. Then the dark cameras wouldn’t have been a problem they would have been a plus!

Thank you so much for coming to eventcamp and commenting here on my blog.

Your friend

Mike

By: Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:58:15 +0000

Hey Eric- Honestly it was a cluster and worked out fine in the end. I did and still do feel bad because it is not the sort of performance I strive to present. It was an amazing experience and I hope to see you at the next one! Thank you so much for attending virtually. I look forward to seeing you in person on the next one!

Mike

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By: Eric Lukazewski

Eric Lukazewski — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:44:24 +0000

Mike, it’s very interesting to hear these behind the scenes ‘hiccups’ as they were never evident in the daily sessions. I hope that is a testament and validation to the quality of the environment that was provided to the virtual audience.

I missed much of the morning sessions, but saw most of the events from the tail end of the fish bowl session on. Aside from occasional minor and expected stream choppiness (again, reiterating minor), the experience was above any I’ve witnessed in terms of quality. I will second Julie’s comments about the sound quality as well. Well done!

By: Traci Browne

Traci Browne — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:42:59 +0000

Hi Mike, this is great info you are willing to share. Someone’s got to get through the growing pains so everyone else can benefit no? But I have to say, for all those problems you guys did such a great job. I can only imagine what you could do with the right venue/budget/tools. I also think that having a bunch of event folks there helped…all we needed to do was take a look at the outlets and we understood immediately.

Despite little glitches here and there Event Camp 2010 was an overwhelming success. Everyone I talked to said the same thing, “it was even better than I imagined it would be!” Summer Camp is going to rock!

Thank you for being a part of the team that created it…I am deeply grateful.

By: Steve Briggs

Steve Briggs — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:17:06 +0000

Mike – another “me too” as a virtual attendee – I really felt like I was there! Yes the video was a bit dark, but really not bad, and I could even recognize quite a few people from their twitter profile pics. The sound is much more important anyway, and that was clear as a bell! I thought it was a great example of the future of live streaming. Thanks!

By: Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:45:13 +0000

Thanks Juile for the nice words and you are one of my first eventprofs friends. We will always have Atlanta!

Great feedback!

Mike

By: Mike McAllen

Mike McAllen — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:43:42 +0000

Jenise- I have to say you were one of the folks I really wanted to meet and I am glad I did. You are right it was such a learning experience. I actually have two more of these to figure out in the next two months. (not event camp obviously) I always put lots of stress on myself because I want each show to be perfect. But this time I have the eventcamp team watching and they are all such cool friends, eventprofs and it was so important to make sure it went well. Thanks for your nice words. I cant wait for the next one of these.

By: Jenise Fryatt

Jenise Fryatt — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:22:40 +0000

Thanks so much for this very informative post. I’m going to pass it on to our team here at Icon.

I had no idea the stress you were under at Event Camp. You made it all look so easy.

Sharing what you learned is so helpful to us all. And I have no doubt that it will be easier the next time around. But again, this is all new territory. The people who jump in and make a few mistakes are the ones who will be ahead of the game. As someone who was there, I can say that the AV was great and it was a wonderful experience getting to interact with the virtual audience. I’ve heard nothing but great reviews from virtual attendees I’ve spoken to.

Thanks again for everything you did at Event Camp.

By: Julie Hewett

Julie Hewett — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:03:12 +0000

I was one of those virtual attendees and all I have to say is that I had a great experience!

What was key for me was SOUND, I was very impress with the sound quality on my end. Know that I was at home on a DSL connection where at least 4 people were playing World of Warcraft at the same time or were streaming Youtube videos.

While the video was dark/fuzzy, I could see the basics of the PowerPoint slides. Could I read the details .. no. But then I doubt that I could even if I were sitting in the room!

It would have been nice to see the speakers instead of a dark outline, but I could hear what they were saying.

The Twitter feed also enhanced the experience as additional websites/resources were listed and the “virtual” audience could ask questions.

Overall on a 1 to 10 scale … I give this an 8! Next year I hope to be one of the “real” attendees.

Thanks Mike for all of your efforts and showing us all how this CAN be done with no budget.