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Lessons learned from running a 150-person all-hands INNOQ company event online: It works quite well (Thread)
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We’ve done these things for 20 years, 6-8 times per year. Typically we pick a hotel somewhere and spend two or three days there, with people arriving from all over Germany and Switzerland.
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This time, due to obvious reasons, we had to transform it into an online event. The format was more or less classical three-track conference style for day 1, and mostly open space sessions on day 2.
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We used SlackHQ for coordination, Confluence pages for the dynamic program, MiroHQ for collaborative boards, @zoom_us for video conferencing, plus a ton of other tools among individual groups. All worked very well for us.
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A lot of the credit for the fact it ran so smoothly is due to the organizers, who prepared things very well, facilitated discussions, and acted as moderators. Open Spaces worked great, “rooms” for the open space sessions are more dynamic and thus actually and improvement.
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One thing we haven’t yet found a good solution for is the kind of conversations we have in the hotel bar at night, where you can move from group to group. We briefly gave sococo a try for this, but it seems overkill.
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I could absolutely imagine paying for sococo for two or three days every few weeks though.