Comments on: How Ignite Phoenix chooses presentations http://ignitephoenix.com/2009/04/23/how-ignite-phoenix-chooses-presentations/ Lighting a fire under the Valley's creative community! Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:19:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Drum Roll Please - Ignite Phoenix #5 Line-Up! | Ignite Phoenix http://ignitephoenix.com/2009/04/23/how-ignite-phoenix-chooses-presentations/comment-page-1/#comment-4829 Drum Roll Please - Ignite Phoenix #5 Line-Up! | Ignite Phoenix Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:37:17 +0000 http://www.ignitephoenix.com/?p=538#comment-4829 [...] We had more than 100 submissions across a wide range of topics and the final decision was an extremely difficult one for our review board.  Our review board was comprised of a group of individuals with different degrees of technical, entrepreneurial, and artistic focus who reviewed all submissions; we wish there was time for all of the fantastic submissions we received but we only have room for 18.  For more information about the Ignite Phoenix selection process, please review our voting process post. [...]

]]> By: Phil Earnhardt http://ignitephoenix.com/2009/04/23/how-ignite-phoenix-chooses-presentations/comment-page-1/#comment-2919 Phil Earnhardt Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:35:37 +0000 http://www.ignitephoenix.com/?p=538#comment-2919 First off, this is a very good problem to have. It reflects well on both the organizers and the community as a whole that you find yourselves with an abundance of excellent submissions. May your problem continue to worsen in the future. ;-) I like what @igniteportland is doing this time with regard to a "town hall" in the selection process and giving participants in that meeting a vote. That gives you crowdsourcing without the problems inherent in most of the internet crowdsourcing solutions for this application. Have people shout out their proposals for 15 seconds and then allow attendees to vote for the the top 3 or 4 proposals that they like. Use blue ink on the left index finger to make it all official. Ignite is about community, and this meeting also provides a way for the community to meet. One long-term thing I've thought of would be smaller "regional" presentations that would feed into your larger event. That may be the future of Ignites. Everybody has a bunch of compelling stories to tell. First off, this is a very good problem to have. It reflects well on both the organizers and the community as a whole that you find yourselves with an abundance of excellent submissions. May your problem continue to worsen in the future. ;-)

I like what @igniteportland is doing this time with regard to a “town hall” in the selection process and giving participants in that meeting a vote. That gives you crowdsourcing without the problems inherent in most of the internet crowdsourcing solutions for this application. Have people shout out their proposals for 15 seconds and then allow attendees to vote for the the top 3 or 4 proposals that they like. Use blue ink on the left index finger to make it all official.

Ignite is about community, and this meeting also provides a way for the community to meet.

One long-term thing I’ve thought of would be smaller “regional” presentations that would feed into your larger event. That may be the future of Ignites. Everybody has a bunch of compelling stories to tell.

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