Re: Interactive Science Meeting-platforms or ideas? #events
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýThrowing some fun into the mix.? If they have a high self-perceived geek factor, and Topia is along the right lines for interaction, you may want to explore Spatial.chat or Gather.town to play with the meeting visual and interaction metaphors. ? Do think about Accessibility when looking at various platforms.? Some of these are actually great for introverts but may not be great for those with visual challenges or different abilities.? We had a major event in Hopin in the spring and it wasn¡¯t ready in terms of accessibility issues. ? Recording is another challenge¡make sure you do a demo recording early in your decision process so you can see what archival recordings look like and where they get stored etc.? ? Gigi Johnson Maremel Center for Creative Futures Rethink Next / AmplifyMusic.org ? P.S. If you want to tinker with others on new platforms, or are part of platforms that want to get piloted, check out .? We just played with new virtual event game platform this week and previously descended en masse in Spatial.chat ? From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Lucas Cioffi
Sent: Friday, September 3, 2021 9:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [f4c-response] Interactive Science Meeting-platforms or ideas? #events ? Thanks for posting the questions, Leilani. ? I often hear people say they "do not want this event to be just another Zoom meeting."? If someone says that or "I hate Zoom" I recommend asking them to share more about the specific aspects of Zoom that they do not like to make sure that your ultimate choice of platform achieves what they are looking for. ? The reasons I hear most often for why people?want something?other than a standard Zoom meeting is that they want to give participants a bit more freedom to move around and they want to make the event look more special to show participants that it was worth paying for. ? In 2021, one of Zoom's greatest strengths is that people who will join an online event probably already know how to use it.? Topia is great, because it lets you move your avatar around a 2D virtual space (similar to a gameboard) and then go on video with people that are nearby.? There is a small learning curve, but a 5-minute video like the one on ?is sufficient.? What I don't know about Topia is how long it takes new users to figure it out if they don't come prepared or watch a video and what happens if you'd like to have more than 25-50 people in one conversation. ? If the client didn't like Zoom for the reasons mentioned in the 2nd paragraph above, you might be able to solve that by wrapping Zoom with Google Docs.? You would get several Zoom meetings (one for each presenter), putting the links to each meeting in a Google Doc, and adding some colors or logos to the Google doc to "give it a sense of place".? Consider making it an editable document so that participants can add notes. ? Or if you wanted to go farther with that "Zoom wrapper" idea, you could use QiqoChat to enable user profiles, directory of participants, 1-1 messaging, site-wide announcements, multiple embedded documents in each "space", etc. ? Whatever you decide, I recommend also trying to set participants' expectations of how social/interactive the event will be.? For example, if the expectation is that people will share their video, let the participants know ahead of time so that they can come prepared to do so (for example, being in a place that they don't mind sharing in the background). Live Online Events | Engaging Communities | Real Collaboration Drop in for? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 6:08 PM Leilani Henry <lrh@...> wrote:
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