Too many things at the Share Fair… no time for blogging!

Just a quick blog post to say that I intended to blog in real time about at least a couple of sessions at the Share Fair but there were too many interesting sessions and too many people to talk to, even at coffee, lunch and dinner time… really no time for blogging. Not that I am a good blogger anyway, I usually blog every two months, which probably can’t be even called blogging. But this time I really wanted to. 

In the end this Fair was more about face-to-face knowledge sharing and I have the impression that people have preferred meeting each other and talking rather than using KS tools like blogs; most of the real-time feedback was given after sessions and during breaks, not through blogs, with the exception of the Share Fair blog of course, that covers the Fair extensively. (And Flickr, of course…)

 

I was particularly pleased with the way the training sessions went. I was involved in three so I could not participate in others that interested me, but what I noticed is that people were really interested and participative, full of questions and quite flexible about the format.

 

Also the facilitated sessions were very informal and relaxed (at least most of them).

 

The things that worked best in my opinion:

- almost no Power Points!

- the meetings in small rooms

- splitting into small groups

- informal, relaxed and flexible formats for the meetings

 

One lesson learnt: let’s always keep Power Points to a minimum!