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.

Apr 24, 2020 · 3:17 PM UTC

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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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All in all, it was fun, we learned a lot, and we’ll definitely do it again, even if we’re not forced to. Feel free to ask questions if you want to know more.
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Replying to @stilkov
Hi Stefan, thanks a lot for your report. Did you use the breakout sessions with 150 participants, too? Would be interesting to know if this works for so many people for a session we are running in a few weeks. Thanks!
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We used them, yes. They work great for a limited purpose: When the host wants to control which participant gets assigned to which room. There is no way to allow for free movement between rooms, sadly