We want to thank attendees for their enthusiasm, energy, curiosity and willingness to participate. As much as we spend a lot of time trying to come up with great content, it’s what our attendees bring to the table that makes mesh so amazing.

We want to thank all of our speakers for their time and effort. From top to bottom, we were impressed with your enthusiasm and generosity in spending so much time engaging with everyone.

A big thank you to all of our sponsors such as Microsoft, Edelman, CIRA and CNW. mesh couldn’t happen without you. Thanks to Sandra MacDonald for all your work with our sponsors.

Thanks to our volunteers for helping make everything run so smoothly.

Thanks to everyone at MCC Planners, particularly the amazing and tireless Sheri Moore, for making mesh and meshU run so seamlessly.

Thanks to our technology partners – mDialog, FileMobile, Sweet Caesar, Viigo, Rypple and Flip – for delivering tools and services that made the mesh experience that much better.

Thanks to Roz Allen and Mark McKay (and Stuart Macdonald!) for doing such an amazing job filming, editing and posting so much video.

Thanks to MaRS and Allen Gelberg for being such a great hosts.

Last, but not least, thanks to our wives, partners and children for being so supportive, patient and understanding!

If you have feedback on what you liked about mesh, what could be improved and new things you would like to see, you can do it here.

If you haven’t left feedback, it’s easy. All you do is click on one of the links below. You’ll then see a page where you can leave your thoughts about a particular speaker. The feedback gives us a better idea of what you liked, what you didn’t like, what worked, what needs to be improved, etc. All this information will help us make mesh better.

Keynotes
Paul Kedrosky/Howard Lindzon
Bonin Bough
David Miller

Panels
Managing Your Ad Buy
Managing Your Online Persona
The Benefits and Risks of Building for a Platform
Boostrapping a Startup
Managing a Community
Using Online Word of Mouth

Workshops
Social Media Analytics
Legal Bootcamp for Web Startups
Search Engine Marketing
How to Integrate Social Media into Your Marketing Plan

We’re using Rypple, a cool local start-up that has a user-friendly service that makes leaving feedback a snap. To provide feedback, we’ve created a different URL for each keynote, speaker and workshop. All you need to do is visit one of the URLs below:

Keynotes
Mike Masnick
Jessica Jackley

Panels
David Usher
Hyper-Local Media
Future of the News
Using the Web for Good

Workshops
Professionalizing Pro-Video
The Nuts & Bolts of iTunes
Social Media for Non-Profits
Monetizing Media
Social Media 101
Using Social Media for Social Good

See you there?

Get Shot by The Photojunkie at Mesh from photojunkie on Vimeo.

In that vein, we’ve set up a couple of interesting ways for you to tell us what questions you want the answers to at mesh ’09.

I’m going to be chatting with Mike Masnick — founder and CEO of Floor64 and chief blogger at Techdirt.com — as part of the media “keynote conversation” this year, and I’ve set up a Google Moderator account so that you can submit questions you’d like Mike to answer, and/or vote on questions that others have suggested we ask.

Rob Hyndman will be speaking with Kiva.org founder Jessica Jackley in the keynote conversation for the society stream, and he’s set up a Google Moderator account as well for your submissions.

And Mark Evans will be talking with musician David Usher as part of the media stream, and has used Rypple — the customer feedback service that is also a mesh sponsor — to gather questions for his chat.

We can’t promise that we’ll ask every question you submit, but we’ll certainly do our best. Feel free to leave some in the comments on this post as well, or find us on Twitter at @meshconference, @mathewi, @markevans and @rhh.

mesh on!

Bonin is.

As the Global Director of Digital and Social Media at Pepsi, his job is to figure this stuff out and deliver a return for the many Pepsi brands out there. And he knows his stuff: prior to running this area for Pepsi he was EVP of Interactive for Weber Shandwick and a Professor of Online Media at NYU.

While we are sorry that our previously announced keynote is being called away unavoidably, if taking the digital channel from the world of potential to the world of results matters to you, you won’t to miss my Keynote Conversation with Bonin Bough on Day 2 of mesh09.

Haven’t registered yet? Do so here.

On that note, here’s the “Party Plan” for meshU and mesh:

April 6

meshUp
The beer o’clock at the Drake Hotel brought to you by meshU and StartupNorth

Time: 6 p.m. to close
Where: The Lounge & Dining Room
Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen St. West (Click for map)

Everyone is welcome. Space is limited. There is no charge for this event.

Please note: As a participant in meshU, your package includes a complimentary drink ticket that you can redeem at the Drake Hotel.

Thanks to our hospitality sponsor and host: Drake Hotel

April 7, 2009

The Social
Hosted by: Hyndman | Law
Time: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Where: The Atrium, MaRS (private function for mesh09 participants)

mesh after-party at The Mod Club
Thank you to our sponsor Social Media Group

Time: 8 PM – close
Where: The Mod Club (Map)
722 College St.
College & Crawford

http://www.themodclub.com/

mesh09 participant: included in registration price (present your name badge at door to access event free of charge)
Transportation to The Mod Club will be provided by Expedia.ca.

Ticket Price (at door): $15 (Net proceeds to benefit a local charity)

We’d like your input. Please vote on your charity of choice from the list below. We’ll name the charity selected by you next week. Submit your vote by April 1 by sending an e-mail to info@meshconference.com

Daily Bread Food Bank http://www.dailybread.ca/
Habitat for Humanity
Little Geeks
Love of Reading
War Child

April 8, 2009
mesh09 wrap party
Sponsored by Edelman Digital
Time: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: TBA
Transportation will be provided by Expedia.ca.

To purchase tickets for meshU, register here. For mesh, register here.