Document and democratize what the workshops produced.
technique — attributed to Sarah Shewey
Shewey's EXP workshops are documented and published in a book that participants and non-attendees can buy. The lessons learned get democratized rather than sealed in the room. The technique multiplies the value of the event beyond the people who attended. Workshops that close without documentation lose ninety percent of what was learned, even for the participants. Workshops that get documented and shared extend the program's value into a permanent artifact. The discipline requires investment in the documentation layer that most conference programmers treat as optional.
For conference programmers, retreat organizers, and learning event designers thinking about the post-event life of their programming. The technique is most useful when the workshops produce substantive content that would otherwise dissipate.
documentation, book-as-output, knowledge-sharing, post-event-value