Guy Kawasaki, software entrepreneur,posted some advice last year on "How to be a Great Moderator", based on his experience on technology and business conferences. He seems to be against the use of Power Point or video aids during panels, and encourages to get the audience involved. What do you think?

Sarah Weinman is an editor for GalleyCat, mediabistro.com's publishing industry news blog, the Baltimore Sun's crime fiction columnist and writes "Dark Passages," a monthly online mystery & suspense column for the Los Angeles Times Book Review. She finds herself moderating and participating in plenty of panels,

The Unconference is a format that is gaining popularity in the tech and business community.

Our discussion on Organizing participatory and interactive events brought together a variety of experiences from different regions. Here are some of the main topics that were discussed during the two weeks of online conversation:

The Support Design Helpdesk is a unique facility offered to GK3 session leads,

Some of you who have called in for coaching sessions have asked some very important questions about the basics: how to keep a conversation aligned, how to heep the pacing and timing of a session, and how to "hold" a group in clear focus so to have an effective session.

"When people frame their strategic exploration as questions rather than as concerns or problems, a conversation begins where everyone can learn something new together, rather than having the normal stale debates over issues."

Open Space Technology (OST) is one way to enable all kinds of people to create inspired meetings by designing and managing their own agenda of parallel working sessions or conversations around a central theme or questions of strategic importance. www.openspaceworld.org

Some workshop designers and hosts have expressed an interest in the appreciative inquiry approach to break new ground on their topics and/or bring the best out of a culturally diverse group. Appreciative Inquiry is a strategy for intentional change that identifies the best of 'what is' to pursue dreams and possibilities of 'what could be'.

Assumpitions of AI:

"If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of the future." (Jacob Needham, et al. "Centred on the Edge")

If you are running a session at GK3 and need some last-minute advice/support on your session design and process between Dec 11-13, please stop by the Support Design Helpdesk in the Interactivity Corner at the GK3 Exhibition Hub, located on Level 3 of the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.