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Doc Searls On Fixing Tradeshows

Posted by timothy on from the they're-about-getting-swag dept.

zachlipton writes "Almost everyone seems to have a love/hate relationship with tradeshows, the giant geek, suit, and vendor gatherings put on by a handfull of corperations. Doc Searls writes in this month's LinuxJournal on his suggestions for fixing tradeshows. The problem, as he puts it, is that traditional shows make two assumptions: 'what matters most is helping vendors sell stuff to customers' and 'knowledge flows top-down, from speakers to audiences.'"

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  1. More dense a proposition ... by foobsr · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... switching to structures resembling a network rather than a tree is helpful in many cicumstances, especially where complexity (with regard to all relevant levels: social, economic, ... ) is looking as if it were an obstacle.

    I think I recall this from researching into structures of communications in groups I guess 20-30 years ago. It did not make news then.

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