Google Ops Presentation and Meeting Formats

Fri Jan 27 17:02:10 PST 2006

At 4:03 PM -0800 1/27/06, Alan Horn wrote:
>On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Brent Chapman wrote:
>
>>Yes, that's my feeling as well.  The talks were fine, the spread 
>>was great, and the venue was good (though having to be escorted 
>>in/out through security is always an annoyance), but the audience 
>>wasn't well managed (by itself, by the organizers, or by the 
>>speakers).
>
>Thanks for the advice Brent. I'll try and manage it better in the 
>future when I'm EC. I think I'm doing the next Google event as well.
>
>That said, I would like to make two comments :
>
>The first speaker ran over by 10 minutes. Well within normal 
>'management' of such, and more timely than a lot of speakers.
>
>The second speaker was intentiionally allowed to speak as long as he 
>wanted without interruptions. It's his venue and we wanted to be 
>invited back :). That was a conscious choice decided beforehand. So, 
>poor handling of question flow aside, thats probably the main reason 
>we didn't interrupt.

 From my point of view, both of them ended up rushing through the last 
1/2 to 1/3 of their presentations, which is usually the most 
interesting parts, because they got held up in the introductory stuff 
in the beginning.

-Brent
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