mesh 2008 - May 21st – 22nd

Keynote Conversations

Keynote with Ethan Kaplan

Mathew Ingram talks with the head of all technology at Warner Bros. Records Ethan Kaplan

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Keynote with Michael Geist

Rob Hyndman talks with U of Ottawa law professor and blogger Dr. Michael Geist

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Keynote with Lane Merrifield

Stuart MacDonald talks with Executive Vice President of Walt Disney Internet GroupGlobal Lane Merrifield

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Keynote with Garrett Camp

Mike McDerment talks with co-founder of StumbleUpon Garrett Camp

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Panel Conversations

• Video is Everywhere with Amber MacArthur, Dina Kaplan, Andre Gaulin and Guinevere Orvis
• Does Location Matter? with Nora Young
• The New Front Page with Daniel Burka, Pema Hegan and Candice Faktor
• Managing the Mozilla Way with Michal Berman, John Resig and Mike Shaver
• Where's the Business in Show Business - Music and the Web with David Usher, Kieran Roy, Graham Henderson and David Gratton
• Private vs. Public with Rachel Sklar, Nancy Baym, Mark Kingwell and Ken Anderson
• Social Media and the Enterprise with Natalie Johnson, Chris Reid, Jenny Bullough and Michael O'Connor Clarke
• Cultivating Community with Jen Evans, George Tsiolis, Derek Szeto and Christopher Jackson
• Building a Brand on the Web with Rohit Bhargava, Maggie Fox and Michael Garrity
• Founders' Stories with Paul Kedrosky, Julia Johnston, Leah Culver and Ryan Carson
• Measuring Social Media with Alan Chumley, Sylvain Perron and Katie Delahaye Paine

Workshops

• Podcasting with David Jones and Doug Walker
• Making Online Videos People Want to Watch with Amber MacArthur and the MGImedia team
• Government 2.0, from Community Participation to Co-creation with Mark Kuznicki and Sean Howard
• Capturing Angels - How to Raise Angel Financing for your Startup with Austin Hill
• Online Advertising - An Introduction to Ad Networks> with Mladen Raickovic
• Business Metrics - Beyond Web Analytics with Dmitry Buterin
• Reputation Monitoring and Management with Sam Ladner
• VC's in Canada - What you need to know with Kevin Talbot

View the full mesh 2008 schedule for panel and workshop descriptions.

Photos, Videos and Audio

• mesh08 on Flickr
• Portraits from mesh 2008 by Rannie Turingan
• mesh 2008 stream on mDialog

mesh 2008 Blog Posts

• Looking back at mesh 2008
• Want more mesh08? Check out Dave Fleet’s live blog of it
• Michael Geist’s mesh08 presentation is on blip.tv
• mesh 2008 first day: rocked

mesh 2007 - May 30th – 31st

Keynote Conversations

The Future of Public Relations

Stuart MacDonald talks with Global CEO of Edelman Richard Edelman

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Building a Web Business

Mark Evans talks with Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster

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The Future of Media

Mathew Ingram talks with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington

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The Web and Philanthropy

Rob Hyndman talks with charity 2.0 entrepreneur Tom Williams

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The Web and Philanthropy

Rob Hyndman talks with Canadian entrepreneur Austin Hill

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Panel Conversations

• Barbarians at the Gate - Should Old Media Be Afraid of New Media? with Rachel Sklar, Cynthia Brumfield and Loren Feldman
• The Web and Politics - Rattling the Cage with Andrew Coyne talks with Scott Feschuk, Garth Turner and Phil de Vellis
• Pros vs. Amateurs - the War for Attention with Jon Dube talks with Paul Sullivan, Steve Herrmann and Tony Hung
• Digital Blinders - Are We an Inch Wide and a Mile Deep? with Nora Young, Mark Schneider and Mark Federman
• The Future of Entertainment - "The People Formerly Known as the Audience" with Jian Ghomeshi talks with McLean Mashingaidze-Greaves, Amber MacArthur and Ethan Kaplan
• The Always-On Generation - What Do Youth Do with the Web? with Kimia Ghomeshi, Laila Adassi, Adam MacIssac, Erica Sum and Hugh Switzer
• Digital Sharecropping - Are You Taking Advantage of Your Users? with Michael Sikorsky, Simon Pulsifer and Jeff Howe
• New Media - Teaching Old Markets New Tricks with Jen Evans, Maggie Fox and John Jantsch
• Startup Stories - I've Fallen and I Can Get Up with Paul Kedrosky, Scott Brooks, Mary Hodder and Leila Boujnane
• Building a Community - How and Why it Matters with Mark Relph, Will Pate, Jordan Banks and Lionel Menchaca
• Monetizing the Long Tail - Life Beyond AdSense with Andrew Goodman, Nancy Peterson, Mike Masnick, Christine Herron and Ted Murphy
• Is Fake the New Real? Transparency and Trust with Michael O'Connor Clarke, David Jones and Rachel Clarke

Workshops

• Blogging 101 with Jeremy Wright
• Wikis with David Crow
• Using the Web for Good with Deborah Kaplan
• Podcasting 101 with Leesa Barnes
• How to pitch VCs with Rick Segal
• Build a Team, Build a Culture with Mark Dowds
• Building a Community with Kate Trgovac
• The Life of a Startup in 30 Minutes - Lessons from the Trenches with Albert Lai

15 Minutes of Fame Presenters

• Octopz
• ConceptShare.com
• Sneakerplay.com
• WildApricot.com
• Fivelimes.com
• Demofuse.com

Photos, Videos and Audio

• mesh conference YouTube group
• Rannie’s shots of mesh 2007
• general mesh flickr group
• mesh 2007 flickr group
• Mark McKay's video on what Web 2.0 means

mesh 2007 Blog Posts

• Arrington Rocks mesh
• My Chat with Craigslist’s Jim Buckmaster

mesh 2006 - May 15th – 16th

Keynote Conversations

The Future of Media

Mark Evans talks with Business 2.0 writer and blogger Om Malik

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The Web and Society

Rob Hyndman talks with U of Ottawa law professor and blogger Dr. Michael Geist

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The Future of Marketing

Stuart MacDonald talks with Steve Rubel of Edelman and Micropersuasion.com

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Venture Capital and Web 2.0

Mathew Ingram talks with venture capitalist and blogger Dr. Paul Kedrosky

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Building a Community

Online marketing director of Riya.com Tara "Miss Rogue" Hunt hosts an interactive seminar

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Panel Conversations

• Are Bloggers Journalists? with Om Malik, Michael Tippett and Scott Karp
• Can Blogs Influence Politics? with Warren Kinsella, Paul Wells, Andrew Coyne and Brad Davis
• The Future of Broadcasting with Barnaby Marshall, Amber MacArthur, Jian Ghomeshi and Andrew Baron
• Panel Conversation: Can Web 2.0 Change The World? with Tyler Hamilton, Tom Williams, Dave Pollard and George Irish
• The Future of Newspapers with Angus Frame and Tomer Strolight
• Will the Web Make Us Free? with Ren Bucholz, George Schlukbier and Bob Young
• Building a Brand Online with Jonathan Ehrlich, Jim Coudal and Bruce Philp
• Does Web 2.0 need VCs? with Rick Segal and Jason Fried
• Corporate Blogs - How and Why with Jen Evans, Tara Hunt, Debbie Weil and Jeremy Wright
• Creating a Viable Web Business with Leila Boujnane, Albert Lai, Michael McDerment and Malgosia Green
• How to Engage the Blogosphere with Michael O'Connor Clarke, Nathan Rudyk, Sarah Spence and David Carter
• Is Web 2.0 Changing the Software Industry? with Mike McDerment, Chris Messina, Matt Mullenweg and Stowe Boyd

Workshops

• Blogging 101 - How and Why with Tris Hussey
• How and Why to run a Wiki with David Crow
• How and Why to Podcast with Amber MacArthur
• Mashing the Vote with Phillip Smith and Mark Greenspan
• Post-mass Media Marketing with Tony Chapman
• What to Expect From a VC with Sean Wise and Sutha Kamal
• How to Run a PR Blog with Michael O'Connor Clarke and David Jones
• Startup benefits and pitfalls with John Phillip Green and Levi Cooperman of FreshBooks.com

Photos, Videos and Audio

• Video of Stuart's introduction to mesh 2006
• The mesh mini-podcasts are here

mesh 2006 Blog Posts

• A walk down memory lane for mesh 2006
• updated: thank you and feedback