You are welcome! It was actually my pleasure to make the trip. I had a blast! You, Adrian and Lindsey should be very happy with what you accomplished.

Regarding webcast – it would have failed badly at your event. The format doesn’t lend itself to webcasting. I am so glad that you didn’t try.

Also, I think too many people get caught up in the webcasting as the only way to “tell the stories” of your event and “share the love.”

Personally, I think using the Conference Publishers to write summaries of the summaries was a great strategy. Event Camp Twin Cities has had over 50,000 page views on the content summaries that were distributed after the event. I expect that you can achieve something comparable.

Thanks again for investing all of your personal time and energy into Event Camp East Coast. You did a great job. It was a privilege to be there!

This was the right way for us. Do we feel that this is the right way for everyone? Not necessarily. EventCamp is all about experimentation. This was our experiment…others will tweek it here and there. It will be their experiment. And by ours I do not mean Adrian, Lindsey and myself. I mean our entire community. Those who attended in person, those who could not be there and those who’ve never yet heard of eventprofs.

@midori – thanks for your comments. I always appreciate your energy and enthusiasm.

@Eric – It was great to meet you F2F this weekend – Finally! You are right – we had a great mix of people from different backgrounds. It’s so true that – if any one of us had not been there (or other people had come) – the entire event would have been different. Glad to have finally met you F2F!

@Joan I am SO excited for our gathering this Spring…CANNOT wait!

However, I must say that I still love a great general session. I love to be inspired and entertained by a good orator – as long as we recall that that is exactly what we’re there for. Less about education and more about information and emotion delivered in what can be an exciting and fun format. It’s just making sure we know the objective for sitting in that chair really.

Can’t wait to see the session summaries from the indomitable, intrepid, brilliant Mitchell Beer!!
Midori

When a camera is near, people have a) less privacy and b) may act differently. I’m not a fan of live-streaming for the sake of live-streaming.

More, what I may say in a small, intimate group (where the ‘norm’ may be confidentiality) I don’t want broadcast to all.

It’s a conundrum.

@Joan: I think that we hang out in the wrong place. A few weeks ago, I went to a strategy conference – where I met hundreds (yes, hundreds) of people that call themselves meeting designers and use methods like this. I was delightfully surprised. I think there is hope – we just need to keep cross-pollinating ideas and spreading them around to as many people and places as possible.

@JeniseFryatt: Thanks for your kind words – you are always so kind. Also, thanks for bringing up the privacy factor, I think it was a relief for those attendees that were not used to living their lives in social media.

Rather than webcasting, I think it would have been nice to capture some of the session highlights and a few interviews on video. Then create a video trailer for the event. I think that would have given people a taste of the event and encouraged them to attend next time.

@davelutz: The Event Camp events are refreshing because they are putting into action all of the different ideas that people are talking about. I am tired of reading blogs that are regurgitations of the same ideas with a different picture and analogy.