Field notes
Field notes
What we've learned about crowd participation, hyping a room, and pointing cameras at audiences that would rather not be pointed at.
11 Feb 2026
Reading a room: what audience energy looks like as a signal
Event people talk about a room’s energy as though it were a mood. If you are trying to measure it with a camera, it…
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Audience participation ideas for conferences that aren’t a Q&A app
Most conference “interactivity” is a poll. Here are formats that ask something more of a room, roughly ordered by how much nerve they take.…
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We’re building a game the whole audience plays at once
We have started building something odd: a game that cannot be played by one person. The idea came out of watching audience-participation technology fail…
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