Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

10/25/07

What's the good of a Conference if You Can't Join Any Presentations?

Filed under: A Good Day, Conference — timwang @ 12:22:48 pm

I suppose it's a good thing that Educause 2007 Seattle is "sold out". However, conference participants are often "shut out" from the sessions they want to join because of the room is "full" is a quite frustrating experience. I showed up 10 minutes before the early morning sessions started (8:00) and was told the room is full. There were obvious seats available at but the door lady was doing a count I suppose and she is not allowing anybody standing nor sitting on the floor! I think they should be a bit more considerate that people wakes up early in the morning to come to these sessions. They should at the least do their best to accommodate as many people in the room as possible. I just wish there have been more presentations in each track so the traffic can be averaged out a little better. Well, enough whining, I better run to the next session and line up now or I will be "shut out" again.

Comments:

Comment from: Caro Archer [Visitor] Email
Tim, I agree with you. There was one session I tried to get in but got shut out 15 minutes prior to the starting time of the presentation.
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