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You've got your career events at your conventions. Teachers and experts and progeeks are speaking. You've got workshops and gameshows and lectures. You've got it all.
What about after?
Well in your mind after probably means "cleaning up after the con and wondering why someone left their Keyblade in a potted plant." But, post-con-cleanup trauma, what are you doing with the panels and workshops and career events you had?
What about putting them and their materials online so others can benefit them and attendees can review them.
Consider how you can extend the value of your career events:
- If the presenters had handouts, ask them to put them online or give you copies. That way you can link to them from the website (in fact, you could do this before the con). Observe proper copyright statements of course.
- Did you film some of the events? Can you stream them, put them online, make them available as podcasts? Again, watch for copyright issues, but consider it.
- Is there work that was done during workshops, panels, and other career events? Can you post it online or post photos of it so people can see – and learn – from the results?
Think of all the materials involved or produced by your career events. With proper procedures and approvals, you can put them online. With them available to the world you can help those who attended – and those who didn't – easier. It also promotes those kind enough to give your convention their time and effort to do those events.
It might even inspire events for next year, or build an archive to enrich the experience of the attendees in the years to come.
– Steven Savage