Did you perchance mean one of these? conference, nonconference
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Internet, informal A conference that attempts to avoid the traditional drawbacks of conferences, such as high entry fees, excessive formality, and bias due to sponsors.
Etymologies
- un- + conference (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The key in the term unconference is the "un" where we try to unravel the bad points about standard conferences.”
“Incidentally, I believe that creating such post-event archives of each unconference is one of the great distinguishing characteristics of the Be2camp approach – using social media to create an easily accessible record of past conversations, so that future events and members and future presenters can expand on the information already delivered.”
“BarCamp is simply an 'unconference' - an ad-hoc gathering of people with the simple desire to share and learn in an open environment.”
“BarCamp is an "unconference" - organized by attendees, for attendees.”
“I do think we maybe need to refocus a little on the overall goal of this unconference, which is (as I understood it) to create a chance to get all the people in the Aussie 2.0 space talking together.”
“We discovered in October that the unconference is a perfect compliment to our brand, because it encourages a high quality two-way dialog.”
“Perhaps the unconference is a good format to give participants a sense of focus on the things they value the most.”
“We discovered in October that the unconference is a perfect complement to our brand, because it encourages a high quality two-way dialog.”
“As for confusion that some seemed to be having, Freeman called the unconference "well-organized chaos.”
“The so-called unconference session titled "iPhone vs. Blackberry vs.???" drew about 25 participants for a roundtable discussion.”
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Web Words to Know
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
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VanishedOne's Words
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I'm Struggling
A list of examples of writing that I'm struggling to like, usually due to poor wording, unclear intention, weasel quality or stylistic failure.
Edit: Now with dicky diction too!funding exclusion, impactful, dispersed, pornify, squinkered, uticated, sherpa, redistributive, wittol, redistricting, unconference, storaging and 29 more...
Tweets
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vanishedone A not altogether explanatory citation: 'After 250 written responses, 12 "unconferences" (whatever they are) and "more than 500 bilateral engagements between stakeholders ... and the core team", yesterday saw the release of the government's Digital Britain report.' Jun 17, 2009