# Online conferences have different affordances than in person conferences * The quality drop-off if a presenter is not live is much lower, and conversely the impact of high-production value prerecorded presentations can be pretty high. * This opens the door to things like the (live) presenter answering questions during the presentation * Everybody is staring at a screen and probably doing other things anyway. * You could take advantage of that by curating the chat channel etc * Hallways are where real (in person) conferences happen - these don’t happen as naturally online so you need to do extra work to achieve the same effect * People can’t do 8 hours of sitting in front of a screen the way they can * On the flip side, since people don’t need to all be in the same place and aren’t burning money the whole time, an online conference can be spread over time * Hard to run into people * There is just less embedded context that sets shared mood ### Related * [[A month long online conference is a neat concept]] * [[Online communities could enable designed serendipity]] * [[An online community that works -scene]] * [[Most online communities feel impotent]] <!-- #stub --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Online+conferences+have+different+affordances+than+in+person+conferences) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Online+conferences+have+different+affordances+than+in+person+conferences)