Comments on: When is a conference not a conference?

By: Link Building Outsource

Link Building Outsource — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:40:58 +0000

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By: mesh blog » 2006 » March

mesh blog » 2006 » March — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:38:19 +0000

[...] Update: Rob posts this morning on the tools we are using to get mesh going, and Mathew talks more about what we are trying to do. Add Comment (6) | Trackback | Permalink [...]

By: Is there a perfect kind of conference? » mathewingram.com/work

Is there a perfect kind of conference? » mathewingram.com/work — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:32:41 +0000

[...] As are we all, Euan, as are we all. That’s why I keep writing about how with mesh we are trying to create something part-way between a traditional conference and an “unconference.” Can’t get enough of my thoughts on that topic? Here’s another one. I think Euan and I share a similar thought — that boring, stale, PowerPoint-filled conferences are useless, but also (as he puts it) that he’s kind of irritated by “a small group of people who have attended mind-boggling numbers of conferences… over the past four years in the US getting bored with themselves and declaring conferences dead.” [...]

By: The mesh wiki — create a workshop » mathewingram.com/work

The mesh wiki — create a workshop » mathewingram.com/work — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:38:14 +0000

[...] I’ve written before about the debate over conferences versus “unconferences” — which Dave Winer and Jeff Jarvis and some others (including the whole FooCamp and BarCamp gang) feel is a better way of organizing things. As I’ve said before, I think there are benefits to both approaches, whether it’s the free and self-organizing approach or the more structured, charge-a-fee approach. And with our mesh conference in Toronto on May 15th and 16th, we’re trying to do a little of both. [...]

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:48:08 +0000

A pleasure and good luck with Mesh 2.0.