Conference Hack, We Call It FrontChannel

Jeffrey Veen has a great brainstorming session, a Conference Hack as he calls it, where he addresses some of the challenges of running a conference and engaging the audience in conversation:

I had a very interesting experience a few months ago while participating in a panel discussion. Once again, I realized that the content on stage is merely the spark of a broader conversation, and that the backchannel is rapidly becoming the whole point. So we've decided to try an experiment at the Start Conference in a couple weeks to see how we might hack traditional presentations.

As many of you may recall, I hacked up the initial version of FrontChannel just in time for Web 2.0 earlier this year.  We're currently working to productize it out more fully and will have it ready by September for more broad use.

Check out the Start conference as well, should be a blast.