After catching up on sleep and other projects, I spent much of the afternoon clicking through and scanning Google, Technorati (term 1, 2, 3), and Blogpulse results on the Blog Business Summit. The response has been amazing and almost all positive. At one point I just sat back and said, “wow.” I’ve also read the grumblings about no audio feed, the IRC channel that got borked, and have been warned to not blog. We hear you and will respond at the next event. We’re planning that now. As a 1.0, or beta event, we had to learn what attendees expected, wanted, dug, and didn’t like so much (I don’t like losing connectivity during my presentations). Maybe we should’ve put an ever-in-Beta badge in the banner or said over and over again “be sure to go up to the rooftop observation lounge and see the gigantic cargo ship.”
Besides all the great presentations, the hallway and break chatter was the liveliest I’ve seen it in years. It reminded me of dotcom land, but just the good parts, and sitting in an Aeron chair was a big flashback (from the point/counterpoint department, we do have an Aeron chair diss).
After reading all the posts from the bloggers that blogged it, there’s no need for me to wrap it up here (Canter as a Sumo Wrestling Opera Man hasn’t left my memories yet). Steve will post his thoughts a bit later and I wanted to thank you all again for attending, being a part of it, and responding positively.
If there’s something else we missed, something you’d like to tell us (like why no Pepsi?), please comment or contact us. I look forward to blogging the event live with you all again soon. That was rocking. As I noted on my blog, I could barely keep up with it all.
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Des Walsh 02.02.05 at 11:34 pm
Steve
I realise it’s a bit early to say Sydney Australia or - better - the Gold Coast Australia, where I live, but one day! Do you have an idea of when the next one might be, as in a year from now, months? I would really like to be able to plan to get to the next one.
Des