A New Standard: Interact or Stay Home


Adam at The Creativity Project points out

Seth Godin explores a new standard for meetings and conferences and how to justify the increasing cost and time commitment of travel. Face-to-face contact is much more effective than internet-related conferencing tools and Seth hits an important point that we need to address this effectively.

One powerful method Seth missed in his analysis is Open Space Technology.

Godin says:

The new rule seems to be that if you’re going to spend the time and the money to see someone face to face, be in their face. Interact or stay home!

And of course, as Adam describes, Open Space Technology lets us apply that to everyone in the room. Not just a few talking heads at the front of the room.