Mike Caulfield at OCW Blog has posted on some new developments in conference management. Rather than select something like Crowdvine to manage the conference backchannel, OCWC will be aggregating blogs, Flickr pages and tweets with the tag “#ocwcglobal2009.” From the blog post:
We’ve tried various ways of building conference communities online in the past, and most have relied on a third party site. And usually these sites have followed a sort of bizarro Pareto rule — for the 20% of the product that integrated a twitter feed or flickr gallery the other 80% forced and encouraged the typical walled garden approach. Whatever integration was just sweetener to get another signup.
