Ashley Richards has posted the excellent speaker guidelines she wrote up for the BlogHer conference (pdf format).

The characterization of types of speakers who go bad is spot on:

Mockers

Interrupters

Know-It-Alls

Attackers

I think it’s a list worth extending. I’d add:

Droners

Shills

Smartest-Guy-in-the-Room

That last one may seem to be the same as the Know-It-All, but in my experience Know-It-Alls demonstrate their superiority by the quantity of their knowledge (and thus often become Droners) while Smartest-Guys-in-the-Room are happy to interject a single comment on every topic in order to show that they’ve thought more deeply than anyone else. (And, yes, I use the word “Guy” on purpose seems this seems to be a gender-based disorder.) [Tags: BlogHer AshleyRichards]

Staci Kramer at OJR has posted her excellent recap of the conference, and blogs about the conference and recapping it.

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