Category : conference sessions

As a web marketing manager representing a large international manufacturing company I was quite surprised to meet several speakers and sessions only addressing or appreciating Entrepreneurs, VCs and Journalists. I spoke to at least 3-4 others who was left with the same impression.
An idea for the next Expo event could be to make sessions and key notes targeted directly to the attending segments. After all that's what Web 2.0 is all about... listen to the masses and give them what they demand.

A topic that i expected to be big at the conference but didn't see at all was the problem of getting benefit out of data-mining vs. pushing herd behavior.

Will the users behavior be negatively influenced by early published results from data-minined peer-data?

Tim O'Reilly blogged about this in context of the inbreeding techrcruch-top-bloggers.

What are techniques to avoid this?

Where was the discussion about this?

i think that privacy and data-security was vastly underrepresented at the conference.

How can we keep the users confidential data secure?

What to do to minimize problems for the users that gave us their data in case of a security breach?

Web2.0 companies are trusted with a lot of data from a lot of people and should show some foresight by thinking about problems that could arise from that.

I'm not gonna talk about a certain session, but want to give an overall feedback. I've only attended a few sessions and workshops, but over all it seemed a little too basic sometimes. Some speakers used up a lot of time to explain basic things like "What is Web 2.0", something that should be basic knowledge for people attending a Web 2.0 Expo.

Especially compared to the BarCamp taking place the weekend before W2EB some sessions were not made for specialists, but more or less for people who want to get an insight of what all this Web 2.0 is all about. I want to point out that this is just my opinion as someone who spends a lof of time with 2.0 stuff.

Thank you for an interesting event. Some sessions were not as good as others but overall the conference was great, especially the key notes. I think you can find better facilities for next year but other than that I hope you will continue to offer events in Europe.

The title and the synopsis of the conference sessions were attractive. However, it was very disappointing that there were almost no takeaways.

--> Most of the speakers were intent on establishing the fact on why the Web 2.0 is the big thing

--> Why people and companies should use it.

--> What led to Web 2.0

But there were no information on what Web 2.0 can do? How to harness the power of Web 2.0? How can it financially benefit corporations.

In short, a lot of hot air and beating on one's drum.

It would have otherwise been a complete waste of time had it not been for some very smart people that I met.

Short on Cycles, Long on Storage. Great presentation combining theory and frameworks with substance. Very logical and entertaining!

The presentation gave great insights into the Advertising trends for social media, and provided valuable recommendations to making good use of those trends. Nate Elliott is a brilliant and inspiring presenter. I look forward to accessing this presentation on Slideshare.

The skill that horoskop writers or women predicting your future using tarot cards must have is to say something which makes you think: "Yes, that fits to me/ I know this situation". First a bit excited you will follow reading or listening to the predictions, but the longer you give attention to them, the less substance or pragmatism you will be able to grasp.

I just felt a bit like this during this session. More buzzwords and heroism than goal orientation. Maybe some concrete use cases would have helped.

Well, my feedback on the event.

negative aspects:
- no coffee on the first day, even if we are talking about a bad coffee like this one
- outrageous the fact that a conference that cost more than 1000€ gives a sandwich for lunch (if we were talking about one or two days, but 4 days lunching sandwichs?!)
- paying for leaving coats and luggage
- alcohol at tea time, without anything to eat (on the second day)

positive aspects:
- some speakers (just some, because there are others that I do not even understand why they were here)

In conclusion:
This was my first conference of O'Reilly, I only will go to another one if you get really good speakers, so good that make me forget all the so negative aspects of being in a foreign country with so bad conditions, for four days.

A present presentation that presents a presentiment for presently presence.

which have classic websites but now want to be part of the web 2.0 era.

I think the conference miss a session or two focused on what/how it is possible to do a change from web 1 to web 2.0

I had expected the marketing and community track had contained a case or two which could inspire me and give me inspiration and ideas how to add web 2.0 elements to our web.

The conference has given me a lot of ideas, but all these comes in fragments in the different workshops and sessions.

im coming from the product field and not technlogly or marketing.

in the future ill be happy to see more product lectures, such as the "passionet users" lecutre/workshop.

there were not enough lectures related to product and UI.

Soren! The old org.charts is just being replaced by new ones. Facebook and other successful web2.0 networks (like CoreMedia!) is not anarchies, they are strong central idées for "the art of letting go!" The idé that "everyone should be bloggers" is not self-organized, but the blogging itself is. OK?