Conference	Unconference
Attendees	Participants
Exhibitors	Participants
Recruiting speakers	Recruiting participants
Content planning	Content facilitation
Direct marketing	Word of mouth marketing
Handouts	Wikis
12 month planning cycle	12 week planning cycle
Sponsorships	Donations
Once a year	As often as needed and desired
Large budgets	Shoe-string budgets
Maximize value for organizers	Maximize value for participants
Best practices	Innovation
Top down	Bottom up
Wisdom of experts	Wisdom of crowds
Magazine coverage 2 months later	Live blogging/podcasting
Slides	Stories
Panels	Conversations
Best practices	Practicing
Hierarchy	Networks
Directive methods	participatory methods
Participants	Contributors/creators
Speakers	Conversation starters
Sharing information	Learning collaboratively
Instruction	Discovery
Best learning in the hallway	It’s all hallway!