“how to get the most out of the day, including doing your talk (optional).”
Trampoline is an unconference (http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2006/how-to-run-a-great-unconference-session/) event that is quite similar in format to Interesting*. The first event was held in March and Trampoline 2 will run on October 24th again at Donkey Wheel House in Melbourne. It is always a great opportunity to meet some of Melbourne’s community, in the flesh. What I like about Trampoline is that it is based on the idea that you “come along and share what you find amazing” – unlike TED where you actually have to __be__ the person doing the amazing things, at Trampoline you just have to be able to tell the story :)
- link to ppeach (http://www.vimeo.com/groups/trampolinemelb/videos/3986295) from last time and notahat (http://notahat.com/posts/32)
The day starts at the grid – the empty schedule on the wall is filled as people put their hand up to give a talk on a particular topic. Not everybody is expected to talk, but you will probably have a topic in mind that you could quite easily lead a discussion around. When the grid is filled the morning starts and everyone disperses to one of the five concurrent sessions that are running. It is quite fluid because of the idea that you vote with your feet – if you don’t find a particular session relevant you are expected to get up and move to another session.
# How can you attend Trampoline?
Trampoline 2 booked out in 4 hours – so physically, you can’t (unless somebody mimics the emergent BIL (http://laughingsquid.com/bil-an-open-self-organizing-alternative-to-ted/) event and organises one around Trampoline(http://bilconference.com/conferences/organize-a-bil/)?)
That leaves us with the virtual. There will be a very loud #trampoline backchannel (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23trampoline) due to the sheer number of Twitter natives that will be in the room, so that’s a good place to start (http://www.rosshill.com.au/article/how-to-follow-an-event-on-twitter/). People will be sharing their highlights from the talks that are in progress, their photos, their videos, and more. If you follow the links that appear you should have a continual flow of interesting things to watch.
# What are people talking about?
What do people want to TALK about?
What do people want to HEAR about?
# How do you prepare for your presentation?
Being an unconference, there is no expectation at all that you have something prepared before you get there on the day. There are a few things that you might like to keep in mind though :)
Session Title: People go or don’t go to your session, based purely on the title that is on the grid.
Backchatter: The Twitter #trampoline chatter around a session is an important indicator of which sessions people are looking forward to, or finding interesting.
Format: You need to present enough focussed information at the start of your session to kick-start the discussion amongst the group. Slides are optional of course, but if you are using them be sure to keep it short.
Closing: Remember the point of Trampoline is to “share what you find amazing”. Make sure people have a clear message from your session that they can spread. Give people your name, twitter alias, website address, or email address so that they can easily follow up with you afterwards.
Curate: If you have a blog this is a great chance to copy/paste (link) the contents of your talk and the conversations that followed to an online space so that you can extend the conversations there. You might even prepare this before your talk so that you can simply hit publish when your talk finishes. You should link to your post on Twitter using #trampoline, and you could also send a link to a few of the people who were at your session and suggest that they could leave a comment on the post with any thoughts or ideas that came from the day.
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# promote this post
- post to twitter with hashtag
- post to trampoline email list
- post to mel pat steve asking for rt
# how am i going to game it?
- i can record videos and share them instantly, uploaded by 3g.
- qik stream? jailbreak
- i can live-post cool concepts.
- i can create a blog post page that aggregates stuff from all over the place using friendfeed
- i can link to a shared photo calendar of the grid
- @yabble can share a top list of local cafes and places to grab lunch (fruit from coles, the cafe and restaurant next to donkey wheel, the southern cross cafes – it’s a sunday so not much is open down this end of the city)
- @thehive can mention the event?
- start discussions on the email list, that people would expect melpatsteve to start / unless i get moderated…
- start another ’space’ or side conversations that are awesome.
- invite people along who aren’t on the list.. or host a session in the cafe next to trampoline at lunch time for everyone else. Trampoline^2
- message all the people who are coming on twitter with a question. or, follow them all (mob mentality) when I have posted my trampoline post at the top of the stream…
- bring an actual trampoline for people to bounce on.
- tag the building, with stickers or something.
- turn it into a game, you have to find… or tweet, or bingo, or be at..
- get meta, do interviews with people who are there. what are the trends?
- @yabble competition to win a free lunch!
- run a session that has a portal to the outside world, using wave, streaming video of somebody remote (@eddie?), shared chat room, new hashtag.
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Trampoline is an unconference event that is quite similar in format to Interesting*. The first event was held in March and Trampoline 2 will run on October 24th again at Donkey Wheel House in Melbourne. It is always a great opportunity to meet some of Melbourne’s community, in the flesh.
What I like about Trampoline is that it is based on the idea that you “come along and share what you find amazing”. Unlike TED where you actually have to be the person doing the amazing things, at Trampoline you just have to be able to tell the story :)
The day starts at the grid – the empty schedule on the wall is filled as people put their hand up to give a talk on a particular topic. Not everybody is expected to talk, but most people will probably have a topic in mind that they could quite easily lead a discussion around. When the grid is filled the morning starts and everyone disperses to one of the five concurrent sessions that will be running. It is quite fluid because of the idea that you vote with your feet – if you don’t find a particular session relevant you are expected to get up and move to another session.
How can you attend Trampoline?
Trampoline 2 booked out in 4 hours – so physically, you can’t attend this one (unless perhaps somebody mimics the emergent BIL event and organises one around Trampoline?) Keep an eye out for Trampoline 3, which will probably happen in Melbourne in March next year.
That leaves us with the virtual. There will be a very loud #trampoline backchannel due to the sheer number of Twitter natives that will be in the room, so that will be a good place to start. People will be sharing their highlights from the talks that are in progress, their photos, their videos, and more. If you follow the links that appear in the stream you should have a continual flow of interesting things to watch.
By Ross Hill - October 11th, 2009 at 11:21pm with 676 views - bil donkey wheel house interesting ted trampoline
