I was really surprised at the number of questions and comments that I received from my presentation at BarCamp Nashville last weekend. For those of you that weren’t there, I talked about some ideas I have been tossing around about how to make social networking more useful. The title of the talk was “3D Social Networking”. I feared it was a topic that had a lot of potential to result in glassy eyes and bored participants (the exact opposite of what BarCamp is supposed to be all about).
I give presentations fairly regularly as part of my day job. One measure that I use to know if the audience is getting anything from my presentation is the quality of the questions. I was amazed at the quality of the questions last Saturday. Not because I expected the BarCampers to be slouches, but because it demonstrated to me that what I was talking about was really resonating with some people. Dare I say that it was even causing people to think about things in a new paradigm (possibly my ultimate goal in life, resulting from my study of Philosophy).
Over the next few days I am going to try and post more details about the concepts and ideas that I was talking about. I hope to remember enough of the questions to be able to explore those in more detail as well. Hopefully I will be able to get the exact questions if/when there is video of the talk available.
