Engines are running, ready for liftoff
It pains me to admit that it’s been awhile since we posted anything here on the mesh blog, and for that we — Mathew, Mark, Rob, Mike and Stuart — are eternally sorry. As penance for our sins, we have engaged in a variety of rituals (many involving a prescribed quantity of fine ales and lagers), which I won’t go into any further for fear of boring you.
Let’s just say that we have been working hard to get our ducks in a row for the next mesh conference, and you’ll be happy to know that we’re very close to being able to announce our keynotes and open the doors for advance ticket sales.
Last year’s mesh was such a fantastic experience for all of us, with what we thought was a great mix of speakers, panelists, moderators and other contributors — including the participants, of course, or the “people formerly known as the audience,” as Jay Rosen likes to call them — and some terrific social events as well.
We’re really hoping that we can reproduce that same kind of experience this year, and with your help we know we’ll be able to. So hang in there, and we’ll be letting you all know about the keynote speakers for this year and the details about ticket sales just as soon as we possibly can.
Tags: 2007, conference, launch, mesh
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I am listening to the 2006 keynote podcasts right now and really enjoying them. For 2007, do you plan to record video and post them later like TED? I think that will be great. Thanks again for the 2006 keynotes.
Hi Mathew,
I for one am tongue-hanging-out keen to see the agenda for this year’s mesh.
You may not realize that mesh provided the inspiration for a group of people to organize the Third Tuesday social media meetups http://publicrelations.meetup.com/85/. We’ve tried to keep the spirit of mesh alive through the cold winter months. And the fact that over 250 people have joined the group and that on any given night over 75 of them will come out to hear great speakers like Mark Evans and Mathew Ingram(!) shows that you started one big snowball down the hill.
So, we’re planning our May Third Tuesday on the Fourth Tuesday so that it will occur the night before mesh starts. I hope that you’ll feel free to invite all of the mesh registrants to come out to Third Tuesday on May 22 (and it’s free!) so that they can mix and mingle with the Toronto social media practitioners who have been meeting every month while we wait for mesh.