Authors: M: Timothy Meaney
Timothy Meaney is a Partner at Arc90, Kindling, and Readability. In his spare time, Tim enjoys reading, running, kickboxing, and relaxing with his family, although rarely at the same time.
Conversation is the New Attention
Issue 326April 19, 2011
Baby's got backchannel! If everybody at the conference is staring at their Twitter stream instead of at the person who's doing the speaking, maybe the speaker should meet them halfway. Migrating speaker presentations to the backchannel can empower the audience while enabling the speaker to listen carefully to their responses. The broadcast model of presentations is dead! Long live the conversation model.
