A first post from Jon from last night’s event is available here: http://masocialmedia.com/?p=18 . I think he’s summed up my initial thoughts of the event process excellently.

My first thoughts are shown below:

Jon, I agree whole heartedly. We ran this event with a format not knowing quite what would happen, whether the audiences both in the room and online would engage with the speakers and the ‘wall’. The ideas added to the wall are of course of interest, but the process and interaction was the most interesting thing for me. As you say people seemed happier to tweet from within the event, which then appeared on the Twitterfall at the front of the room as opposed to getting up and drawing/writing on the wall physically.

Maybe our media socialites are a shy bunch?

The other thing that I found interesting was the lack of a string of threaded ideas from each concept or thought raised. I was expecting ideas to connect and run from one to another, with plenty of cross over, where what we actually achieved was a ’splat’ of ideas all standing alone on the wall. The most we probably achieved joined up might be 2 or 3. Maybe this portrays a physical representation of Twitter itself? Lots of ideas, many getting RT and repeated, but many starting and stopping in their own space.

I am interested in ‘what next’? It’s important to post these observations now, along with the pictures of the wall, and see if we can gain anything from this.

Next time you’re right. Pens on the door.