Hi All,
Today, we are in a place where everything is global. People form groups, they meet, they do conversations with people on the other side of globe with out their physical presence.
The same concept had caught the eyes of these event management committees and every group or org. who have presence in certain stream want to conduct virtual conferences. The benefits being a lot like they are very inexpensive, people can sit at their desk or they can work from home with out traveling. All they need is, a computer with internet facility.
when I attended the event as a member..I could see very few things related to a member (Ofcourse, being a free member I cannot expect more than that) like network lounge and a chat window. With a lot of enthusiasm, I clicked the networking lounge and to my surprise I could find hardly 30-35 people online at any given point of time during the whole one day event.
For god's sake the system was such that, if a member invites the other member in the lounge for a chat, he cannot invite some other person unless and untill his invitation is accepted or declined by other party or he declines his own invitation since the other party is not responding.
With a little bit of disappointment I moved to chat area and the most pathetic thing there was people are more interested in their hair styles, the kind of suites they wear, the shoes they wear and the list goes on
And adding fuel to the fire, when I started a topic related to subject of the conference...no one responded.
That was one of my pathetic experiences with virtual conferences which repeated in the next one too which was on some other topic by some other well known org.
I was feeling that..there should be a moderator who can atleast control the chats and make it more confined to the purpose of the meeting. Guys..share your experiences or comments if you have any such
