Going Solo

Wow. I think I can say that. Your response to Going Solo exceeded all my expectations. I’m taking the week-end off but will be back on Monday with online news, cooking up a survey for participants, and collecting links to blog posts and photos.

In the meantime, check out:

• talk videos on DailyMotion (more being uploaded this week-end, thanks Sébastien!)
• official photos on Flickr (thanks Guillaume!)
• live notes by the legendary live-blogger Suw Charman
• live notes by Urs
• live notes by Jaap
• more links
• sign up for the newsletter or join the Facebook group to keep in touch with the Going Solo community if you haven’t yet

Thanks to everybody who came, everybody who helped out, and everybody who supported this project during the last months. I couldn’t have done this without you.

A special thanks to the speakers, who delivered a really really great programme.

See you in a few days!

I should be in bed sleeping, but I’m too excited by this video of Ouchy that Sébastien has just finished editing. Last Saturday he and I headed out to get some footage of the area around the venue hotel, and we ended up rollerblading around for a little guided tour. I took some photos and will upload them tomorrow. In the meantime:

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Ouchy is the “lakeside” area of Lausanne, and is where Going Solo will be taking place. If you’re into rollerblading and have enough space in your luggage, take them with you. You can go from one side of Lausanne to the other on your wheels, and it’s pretty nice!

I’m convinced that for any conference taking place nowadays, filming talks and putting them online is a must. This allows more people to learn about the event, gives extra visibility to the speakers, and also lets people who couldn’t make it to the conference benefit from it.

And no, I don’t believe that people are going to decide not to come to the conference because they can get all the talks online for free (have you ever spent a whole day in front of your computer watching recorded sessions?)

So, all of Going Solo will be filmed and put online almost in real time (we’re not certain we’ll manage streaming). For that, I would like to extend particular thanks to Sébastien Baudet of Taxi-pub.ch, who will be managing camera, editing and uploads.

For hosting and distribution of the videos, we’re partnering with DailyMotion, who have very kindly (and speedily!) set us up with an Official User account for Going Solo. This is where you’ll have to head to see the videos on the big day, if you’re not lucky enough to be on location. We’ve already added a few videos to the account, and chances are you’ll see one or two more before things start getting really hot on Friday.

So, a big thanks to Taxi-pub.ch and DailyMotion for their help in making these videos available to the public!

Last Thursday, I went over to the Seesmic offices for lunch and ended up being the CEO Loïc Le Meur and his partner Vinvin’s guest in their daily show, Seesmic du Jour. I got a chance to briefly present Going Solo before rambling on about GTD. Here’s the video:

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Going Solo also got a mention on Loïc’s blog (in French too). I’d like to insist on the fact that if I was typing on Loïc’s keyboard, it was because he started out by asking me to dictate — typing directly seemed less painful 😉

I’m quite a fan of Seesmic, though I use it irregularly. Yesterday, I gave a little news about Going Solo in video format, so I thought I’d share it with you here too.

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Finally! My open stage video from LIFT08 is online, which isn’t too bad given the slight hiccups surrounding the open stage videos, isn’t too bad.

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Here is a copy of my preparation notes, including a short bit I missed out. (The video is on Facebook too.)

If you haven’t done it yet, you should also check out the two interviews I gave about Going Solo during the conference.

Update, 21.02.08: the open stage speech video is online!

Unfortunately, we have no idea when my open stage speech video will be available. I guess this shows you why it’s always better to attend events rather than rely on technology to give you second-hand access to them. For those of you who didn’t attend my speech (because they weren’t at LIFT, or because they arrived too late on Thursday, well… I can only say I hope the recording is not lost and will surface at some point. (Let’s say “it’s complicated”.)

I was interviewed at least four times after my speech, and I’d like to point you to two videos which are online — and are, in my opinion, pretty good 🙂

First, my friend Robert Scoble caught me off-guard on Qik:

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Then, Nicolas Charbonnier did a really nice interview of me with his HD camera. I can’t embed it here, but you should head over to techvideoblog.com and watch it there. (Maybe I’ll stick it on YouTube or something later on.) Third time lucky — thanks for insisting, Nicolas: I said “yes, later, not now” the first two times he approached me. I’m glad we did it!

Watch my interview by Nicolas Charbonnier about Going Solo:

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In other news, registration is working (yes! people are actually signing up!) — be sure to pass the word around so that your friends don’t miss the Earlier Bird discount (only until this week-end).