Tomorrow MESH 2.0 kicks off. I have to admit to being more than a little curious about what great ideas will surface this year. Last year I live blogged the conference. I might do a little of that this year but I really want to take the time to dive into MESH's zeitgeist a bit more. Until then, here are some thoughts from last year's MESH by RadiantCore's Jay Goldman:

I asked some audience members to send me their thoughts on the conference for posting on Gagglescape. Jay Goldman of RadiantCore, one of the BarCampTdot organizers, offered the following:

Some thoughts on Mesh:

- I've been to many conferences that were planned in much longer amounts of time, most of which where chaotic and disappointing. Stuart, Rob, Mark, Mike, and Matthew did a wonderful job of pulling together an informative and interactive two days in a remarkably short amount of time.

- The network connectivity, especially on day one when they had many of the ports blocked, could have been much better. Conferences for the tech crowd need gobs and gobs of bandwidth almost before they need anything else.

- The mix of tech and marketing folk was fantastic and made for some excellent networking. The two sides of the fence are often divided by great chasms where collaboration and mutual respect go to die. Mesh really helped to build some bridges, at least in the Toronto area.

- I liked the mixed streams of sessions because it made it easier to plan my day.  It would have been interesting to also cross the streams and have some panels made up of marketers and technologists -for example, I would definitely have attended a debate between Steve Rubel and Chris Messina on the relative merits of blogging as a marketing and information (...read more...)