Heather Gold led the discussion. People are missing quality connections, meaningful conversations online. If you have a deep conversation with someone face to face, can you continue that online? Can you have such a deep connection when you meet online?
Gail Williams: I see the words friend and community used to describe database divisions.
Shannon Clark: People […]

So that it is clear that we don’t just get together to blow hot air, we wanted to do something  that brought participation and creative collaboration into the unconference.  Skittles and Sketches is a sketch comedy contest around the idea of Web two-dot-OHHHHH.  We have asked unconference participants to:

Find a team
Find a theme
Live the dream […]

MJ Kim, Raj Prasad, Al Chang and Jason Hilton talked about marketing.
Kim is the marketing person for PhotoBucket. Hilton and Prasad are from WDFA Marketing, an ad agency. Kim says, “Marketing, evangelizing is the same whether it’s for your company or you’re on your first date.”
How do we do no-bullshit marketing, both traditional and non-traditional?
Kim: […]

Bruce Cahan of Urban Logic and Kevin Jones from GoodCap led a discussion on “The Economy of Abundance.”
Cahan introduced the idea of the Means Meter. How do you know you’re creating the good? How do you now what social values you’re either enhancing or impeding? How do you translate social values to the monetary economy?
For […]

Chris Heuer and Howard Greenberg pitched Social Media Club, the first user-generated startup.
From the blog: ” Social Media Club is being organized for the purpose of sharing best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and promoting media literacy around the emerging area of Social Media. This is the beginning of a global conversation about building an […]

Web 2point2: Day 2 Agenda
Please note that these are the Main Talk Topics that will be featured in the Main Room. You can still propose a topic at the event and/or talk with Sponsors in the demo room as we explained in detail in the Web […]

Web 2point2: Day 1 Agenda
Please note that these are the Main Talk Topics that will be featured in the Main Room. You can still propose a topic at the event and/or talk with Sponsors in the demo room as we explained in detail in the Web 2point2: Format Update.
Thursday November 9, 2006 @ […]

So we decided to pull the How To room from the proposed format since we received very little interest - actually no interest other than from Sarah Dopp and Bill Humphries, who both offered up their tech-to-english translation talents (and they will still do so informally as will most everyone else participating). We also […]

Chris has mentioned our desire to have the event be a mash up between open space and somewhat stuctured conferences. It can be tricky to find the right mix, but I think (hope?) we are on the right track.
However, the true test of whether or not this will work is how this event is […]