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August 07, 2005

BlogHer discussion guidelines and speaker types

Ashley Richards has posted the excellent speaker guidelines she wrote up for the BlogHer conference (pdf format).

The characterization of types of speakers who go bad is spot on:

Mockers

Interrupters

Know-It-Alls

Attackers

I think it's a list worth extending. I'd add:

Droners

Shills

Smartest-Guy-in-the-Room

That last one may seem to be the same as the Know-It-All, but in my experience Know-It-Alls demonstrate their superiority by the quantity of their knowledge (and thus often become Droners) while Smartest-Guys-in-the-Room are happy to interject a single comment on every topic in order to show that they've thought more deeply than anyone else. (And, yes, I use the word "Guy" on purpose seems this seems to be a gender-based disorder.) [Tags: BlogHer AshleyRichards]

Staci Kramer at OJR has posted her excellent recap of the conference, and blogs about the conference and recapping it.

Posted by D. Weinberger at August 7, 2005 10:28 AM

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Thanks for the plug, but I cannot take credit for the types of speakers that go bad. Nick Morgan, in his book Harvard ManageMentor on Running a Meeting, did the excellent job of defining them. The pdf on my site has a list of references that I used when writing the guidelines.

Posted by: Ashley Richards | August 8, 2005 03:14 PM

And the you have all the speakers who come on after Dave.

Posted by: Opie Emell | August 9, 2005 04:56 PM

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