Fwd: digi.lit meeting notes for 4/22/15

[Janine Kovac]

I've forwarded this to diglit group. Hopefully everyone gets it!

One thought I had last night is how tough it would be to pick just two or three panels now that digi.lit is sort of truncated. I think part of what people pay for is the option to see a bunch of different panels. 

Is it set in stone for Elise to program Sat OTRS and not Sunday? The reason I ask if Elise and I switch, we could do more digi.lit-like crossover panels on Saturday to give people more to choose from. (We had some digi.lit-lite programming at OTRS last year with a hybrid publishing panel). 

And THEN we could make all the panels free and just charge for the Speed Dating and mixer portion. WNBA charged $65 - 90 ($65 for members, $75 non, $90 for walk-ups) for their Pitch-O-Rama. We could charge something like $55 for the Speed Dating, $15 for the mixer or $65 for both. 

With the exception of the opening and closing mixers, everyone would be able to roam freely between upstairs and down. 

And hits that cheaper price point Laura was gunning for. :-)

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Subject: digi.lit meeting notes for 4/22/15
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digi.lit Meeting Notes - April 22, 2015

 

 

Schedule of Day:

 

·      Ideal day would be three-four panels – two discussions and two how to sessions

·      No keynote speaker

·      Can we fill 230 seats in Z Space? Or should we place it in Z Space Below where there are 99 seats? Maybe Z Space Below would be a better fit? Off the Richter Scale will draw more people than digi.lit.

·      Catered lunch would be REALLY nice – helps people mingle and meet up. How do we make it economical for us? Maybe a local restaurant could sponsor?

·      Tentative schedule: 10:30-12:00 (speed-dating), 12:15-1:15, 1:30-3:00, 3:15-4:15, 4:15-5:15 (wine mixer)

·      A quick wine reception where people can mingle for an hour after. But if we bring donated wine, we need to pay the bar $300/night.

·      How long are the panels? One hour? 75 minutes?

·      Maybe a food truck? A coffee guy?

 

Price:

 

·      What do we want to charge per panel? $35 per session? But the sessions are different time lengths. Or should we only make it a full day ticketed event? How do we make sure that folks have tickets? We can’t empty the auditorium each time.

·      What do we want to charge for the full day? $99 online. $125 at door.

·      Let’s have a more reasonable price than last year, which was $225.

·      Let’s give discounts to folks who attended Lit Craft self publishing workshops.

·      Let’s give ten discounted tickets to Brooke Warner, other folks, etc.

 
Possible Panels:

 

·      Speed-dating in which aspiring authors would speed-date with freelancers who do head-shots, cover arts, copy-editing, etc., folks would LOVE this, maybe have this first in the day so folks come out for it?

·      How to panels - panel on how to do a podcast – lots of Bay Area aggregators, podcast industry has matured recently

·      People doing different things than just e-books

·      Let’s include something that is REALLY cutting edge. Let’s not put out more marketing. Instead show what are you doing that is really revolutionary. We’re giving you inspiration.

·      Be sure to include both meta and how to panels

·      What companies are doing things that are ONLY digital?

·      Let’s get folks from Twine community where you can make hypertext fiction. Huge community, Lise could ask Laura to participate.

·      Maybe a panel on the difficulties of hypertext – how do you monetize hypertext?

·      Possible panels: How to alter content? What not to do?

·      Lise is on a panel at Bay Area Book Fest so she can chat with those folks and ask them to be in digi.lit.

·      Last panel – Scott did a fabulous panel last year, New, Now, Next, in which every person got five minutes to share his/her idea. Maybe do it again? Worked REALLY well! Lise wants Narrative Technologies to be in it this year!

·      Let’s stress the innovation and creativity!

·      The How To needs to be more than just the basics. Attendees have already covered the basics.

·      Scott spotted a few self-published types in Submittable. If they are ebook innovators, they could be used for digi.lit panels.

·      Scott also suggested doing a panel for “Funding Readers” or “Funding Books”: BEACON does crowdsource funding for all sorts of writing- innovative way for authors to build an audience for their books, or possibly help fund a book. LONGREADS is a curated site that publishes long form storytelling of at least 1,500 words, striking deals with publishers and authors to run excerpts from upcoming books, allegedly have a million readers, new way of building an audience and interest in an upcoming book. And I think they pay for content.

·      From Scott - Linda Lenhoff is in the submissions. She's a fun writer and a delightful person. She took two of her previously published books, got her rights back, and recently e-published them. She says she has found a whole new audience. Great case study that would be perfect for the digi.lit audience, especially if Linda is willing to share the details of how she did it.

 

 

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[Janine Kovac]

Good points, Debby!

We didn't decide when our next meeting will be. I'm guessing we will be toast after the next general meeting, May 6th. 

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From: Deborah Krant <dkran...@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: digi.lit meeting notes for 4/22/15
To: Jen Siraganian <j...@litquake.org>, Jack Boulware <j...@jackboulware.com>, Jane Ganahl <jga...@pacbell.net>, Laura Joakimson <laurajo...@gmail.com>, Lise Quintana <li...@narrativetechnologies.com>, Janine Kovac <janine...@gmail.com>, Scott James <vob...@gmail.com>, Fiona Hannigan <fiona.h...@gmail.com>, Darothy Durkac <mar...@sbcglobal.net>

We need to have 5-10 minutes inbetween session so people can go to the bathroom, get a drink of water, or check their messages--  my training tells me that 75 minutes is the maximum length for adults to concentrate before they start to attention wander,  but you could do some variation.  like a two part sessions that was 45 minutes, a little break, then another 45 minutes for a companion session or a contrasting sessions. 

It would be great to have at least one part of the day where people had a choice of two different things going on simultaneously--maybe not all day long, but just a segment.  And I think the lower level might be best unless we can divide the big area into two sections?

Debby 

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