>Not just the same ol' powerpoint and questions routine, but 
>something more engaging, memorable, creative.  So, I volunteered to 
>poll colleagues to harvest ideas for alternative formats.

At the MCN conference this past fall, I was part of a session with a 
new format that, from my viewpoint as a presenter felt far more 
engaging. With 5 or 6 speakers, we each gave a 5 minute overview 
(sans ppt) of our topic and then broke into round table discussions 
for the next hour. The audience was free to go to each table for as 
long as desired and engage (or not) as much as they wanted with the 
speaker. As a speaker, it was nice to tailor the topic instantly to 
an interested audience and be less generic in presentation. It 
certainly felt like the information flow was much more valuable.

In my case, I was talking about our building expansion and the 
associated technology both in-gallery and infrastructure-wise. I 
tried to focus on successes and failures, so it was an easy topic for 
me turn into an hour-long discussion with great questions from the 
audience clustered around my table.

-bw.
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