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What happened to the schedule on Saturday night?
What happened to the schedule on Saturday night? Up until then, NN had been extremely good at keeping to schedule (thanks). When the schedule was changed for Saturday, we all got new schedule grids that morning, which was a great way of doing it (some conferences would just publish a list of changes, which makes for a lot of annoyance when trying to correlate the schedule grid and the changes). This updated schedule still listed the Donna Edwards keynote as 8-9:30, and I made plans to meet a friend at 9:45.
However, the introductions and pre-Donna Edwards speakers didn't even begin until 8:30p, and Donna herself spoke from 9:40 - 10:15 - beginning later than she was scheduled to end! What happened?
However, the introductions and pre-Donna Edwards speakers didn't even begin until 8:30p, and Donna herself spoke from 9:40 - 10:15 - beginning later than she was scheduled to end! What happened?
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Inappropriate?This is a fair criticism and honestly it was two mistakes that combined to make this situation.
First, at 8pm, when the program was scheduled to start, there weren't any people in the room. We could have avoided this by having this keynote earlier in the day and not giving people a 3 hour break. As it was, people left the building and were late to come back (if they ever did at all).
Also, we should have kept the staff comments more brief and maybe fewer than 2 comics.
We (and it was mostly my responsibility) just kind of missed the boat on this one but we'll make sure it doesn't happen in the future.
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I think Nolan pretty accurately covers things. The other thing that I'd add is that we need to consider whether that triple-deck of panels on Saturday afternoon was just too much for people to realistically attend on the third day of a conference (and after a big morning event) and then *also* expect them to attend a nighttime event. Had we concluded the panels in the 4:30-5p range and started the Saturday night function at 7p, that might have worked better. Let us know. -
I agree about the comedians. No issues with the talent, but I felt they were a distraction to an already tired audience. Compared to other conferences I've been to, though, the Netroots people persevered magnificently.
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