Everything old is new again
Our web guru Jeff Sarmiento has put together a sweet page of resources from past mesh events. It’s such a nice job I can’t help writing about it. We had a lot of fun in 2006 and 2007 – it’s great to have a quick way to connect to those memories. More links to video etc. will be going up on the page soon. Nice job, Jeff!
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Much More mesh Videos
With many, many thanks to Mark McKay and the folks at mDialogue for their hard work, here are a few more videos from mesh07, including the rest of the keynotes, and the 15 Minutes of Fame Winners:
Keynotes
- The Web and Society (Rob Hyndman with Austin Hill and Tom Williams)
- The Web and Media (Mathew Ingram with Mike Arrington)
- The Web and Business (Mark Evans with Jim Buckmaster)
- The Web and Public Relations (Stuart MacDonald with Richard Edelman)
15 Minutes of Fame
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What do you want mesh to be?
One of the real pleasures of being involved in mesh is hearing the ideas that people have for improving it. We get lots of comments – the great majority very positive, some critical but constructive, and others, well, not so much. But we really do appreciate and think carefully about all feedback, and use it to try and make mesh better.
So we’d like to ask everyone who came to mesh – whether you were a speaker or a guest – and anyone who didn’t come – whether because mesh07 wasn’t quite what you wanted or just because you couldn’t make it – to chime in and give us comments on what you’d like to see at mesh, how we could make it better, things we didn’t quite get right – or anything else you’d like to say to help us make mesh better.
You can leave your comments on this blog if you’d like, or just email them to us at info@meshconference.com. And once again, thanks for meshing with us.
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More on mesh07 Photos and Video
We’ve created mesh YouTube and Flickr groups for anyone who wants to include any video or pictures taken at mesh. Here’s Mark McKay’s video shown at mesh, here’s the mDialogue site (which already has some video up) and iTunes RSS feed, here’s Loren’s tag page for mesh and here’s Storystream’s site (we’ll try to get this year’s mesh videos up on the YouTube group soon).
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mesh07 Pictures
There are a lot of shots on the Web already, with many more of ours to come soon. Rannie’s shots of Day 1 are up now, here’s the mesh07 tag page at Flickr and here’s a search at Flickr on “mesh”.
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mesh Panelists: Mark Federman
An unconventional, yet strategic thinker, Mark Federman has more than twenty-five years experience in the high-technology industry as executive, manager and consultant, spanning disciplines including research and development, marketing, sales, operations and strategic leadership. Until recently, Mark has played the role of Chief Strategist at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. He is a regular guest lecturer at Högskölan för Lärande och Kommunikation (Practical School of Education and Communication – equivalent to a polytechnical institute that grants both undergraduate and graduate degrees) in Jönköping Sweden, and has been a visiting professor at the Fachhochschule (same as a högskölan) in Kiel Germany, and elsewhere.
Mark is the co-author, with Derrick de Kerckhove, of McLuhan for Managers — New Tools for New Thinking. Some of his recent explorations have examined “Generation Gap: Why today’s youth are living in tomorrow’s world,†“The Penguinist Discourse: A critical application of open source software project management to organization development,†“Why Johnny and Janey Can’t Read, and Why Mr. and Ms. Smith Can’t Teach,†“Discovering the Passion in Your Work and Your Life,†“The Ephemeral Artefact – Visions of Cultural Experience in 2020,†“How to Know What Business You’re Really In,†“Integral Awareness in the Connected Society,†“The Cultural Paradox of the Internet,†and “Creating a Culture of Innovation.†His recently completed research proposes the notion of “role*†(pronounced “role starâ€) through which people can become aware of the effects of the roles they play, and how to actualize these effects to achieve personal motivation, engagement and passion throughout their lives.
Mark is often called on to provide thought leadership on issues relating to consequences of the seemingly massive changes that are occurring throughout society. Most recently, he has been invited to provide keynote addresses to the senior levels of management in Canada’s Public Service, health care researchers and policy makers, teachers, school administrators, and education policy advisors, and senior executives in the advertising, marketing, branding and public relations industry. Internationally, Mark has been called upon to provide a view into the future for the emergence of culture by UNESCO, and at universities in Germany, Sweden, Austria, the Slovak Republic, and elsewhere. The University of Toronto lists Mark in its “blue book†of experts and he is frequently called by major media outlets, including Canada’s three major television networks, and the major newspapers across the country; a feature interview with Mark specifically on his method of strategic engagement appeared several years ago in the Wall Street Journal.
Mark is currently engaged in Ph.D. research at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, the theme of which is A Valence Theory of Organization. His research strives to re-theorize the concept and consequences of organization, creating an emergent model of the “organization of the future†that is consistent with our present conditions of ubiquitous connectivity and pervasive proximity, or “UCaPP.â€
An internationally sought lecturer, speaker, facilitator and playshop leader, Mark consults to businesses and government agencies as a strategy advisor to help them gain awareness, perception and insight into complex issues in an environment of continual change.
Mark blogs at What is the (Next) Message?.
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mesh Panelists: Albert Lai
Albert Lai sold his first internet company, MyDesktop Network, for millions of dollars while still in his teens. After the sale of his first internet company to JupiterMedia (JUPM), Albert has been involved in founding, launching, or funding nearly a dozen technology companies over the past 10 years. Most recently, Albert was the founder and CEO of BubbleShare, an innovative online photo sharing service that attracted the interest of multiple?industry leading companies, that was sold to Kaboose (KAB) this year in a deal worth several million dollars at 28. Albert has passion for seeking out “what’s next,” and help launched the first DemoCamp, a series of “Unconferences” that now takes place around the world. In his spare time, Albert enjoys spending time helping emerging companies and young entrepreneurs avoiding the immeasurable number of mistakes that he’s made in the past, hoping they too one day will “pay it forward.” He blogs about disruptive simplicity and other random thoughts at http://simplyalbert.blogspot.com.
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“The dog ate my homework, err, delayed my mesh ticket purchase”
So we are out of tickets. Completely full. As in the-place-has-no-more-chairs-and-we’d-have-to-rent full. As in the-fire-marshall-is-this-close-to-calling-me-at-home full.
Yes, I know that a lot of times Sold Out might not mean Sold Out (we all know of those lucky slobs who snagged the perfect seat to some concert the day before because extras magically appeared. Heck, it’s happened to me). And yes, most of you are a plucky bunch, so asking anyway likely seems like the right call. But, alas, this is not one of those times.
We are just plum sold out.
We really don’t have some hidden stash still left to sell to the best storyteller (although, come to think of it, that might be fun next year). Asking us to hook you up – even nicely – won’t change that. And, yes, you are right, some people won’t show…but we actually baked some assumptions around that into how many we decided to sell this year after getting some experience last year. All high tech, like the airlines 
So no wiggle room there, either.
We do appreciate your desire to come to mesh. We are humbled by it in fact. I mean, the five of us are all still blown away by how far we’ve come since sitting at The Paddock a little more than a year-and-a-half ago spinning up the idea of the mesh The First.
But, despite that, sadly, we really can’t oblige.
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mesh Panelists: Leila Boujnane
Leila Boujnane is Co–Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Idée Inc. Leila has been instrumental in making Idée the leader in visual search and image recognition technologies for the digital imaging, media and entertainment industries. She is responsible for all aspects of the company’s strategy and operations.
Leila brings over a decade of experience in the technology sector to her CEO role. Leila is characterized by her peers and colleagues as a passionate and determined entrepreneur with exceptional leadership skills. She regularly speaks at industry conferences and is an active mentor for young women in technology. Leila can be found blogging at hyperbio.net and she is also an avid long distance runner.
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mesh Panelists: Philip de Vellis
Philip de Vellis is the creator of the “Vote Different” ad, which he posted online under the pseudonym ParkRidge47. The ad, which mashed up Apple’s iconic “1984″ spot with footage from Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign website, has received more than 3 million views on YouTube and was featured on every major US television network, cable news channel, newspaper, and political blog. The San Francisco Chronicle called it “a watershed moment in 21st century media and political advertising.”
De Vellis previously worked as a senior strategist at Blue State Digital, a progressive internet consulting firm. He was director of Internet communications for Sherrod Brown’s successful 2006 U.S. Senate race in Ohio, deputy internet communications director for Wal-Mart Watch, and was deputy field director for Cuyahoga County, Ohio on the Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign. Prior to his full-time work in politics, he was a freelance video editor and motion graphics designer in his home town of Los Angeles. De Vellis graduated from UCLA with a BA in history.
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