About 60 members of IAOC and PRSA heard "Communicating on the Read-Write Web" with Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz at IAOC’s inaugural conference luncheon in Valley Forge, PA on March 24, 2006. Shel was present with us in Valley Forge, while Neville joined in via Skype from his office in Amsterdam. They gave a great presentation, as you’ll hear in their postmortem discussion on their podcast, or download their complete presentation.

You can download their PowerPoint file and an MP3 audio file from the presentation. Also listen to their discussion of the event on their March 27 "For Immediate Release" podcast.

In the podcast discussion, Neville describes how as the online speaker he had no visual feedback and felt less connected. We’ll try to fix this for their return presentation in Belgium on June 16, where Neville will be present (and Shel will be virtual) for our European conference at the IBM Forum in Brussels. Since Skype now supports video, I think a solution would be for a camera to be pointed at the audience so the online speaker  can see who he's talking to. Shel had asked me to set up a computer so the Valley Forge audience could see Neville, but he decided it wasn't a good idea since the picture would be rather small to project on a screen. However, I think it does make sense to go the other direction and send a video view of the audience to the online presenter.

Don Dunnington