a nice little interview summary from #Amp08

Three questions

1: What’s good about the event today?

2: What’s bad or the downside about this event?

3: What would you like to see happening in the future?

 Nicely put together by Penny Jackson

Thanks to Carl Jeffrey for letting me know they were up!

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Joanne Jacobs has written a great newsletter summing up all the great things that happened at Amplified 08 #amp08.  I can forward you a copy as it isn't yet on the site.

Roland Harwood was kind enough to mention me in his article

6. The 1 tweet feedback session facilitated by Rebecca was brilliant and my favourite part of the day.

Love you too, Roland!

Here's my photos from the event.

And so if you're wondering what it was all about.  My contribution to the big,
hairy-arsed goal for the whole Amplified Movement (#amp08 #goal) is to make the UK the world's number one networked
economy by 2010.

That's it.

And we're going to do it by enabling groups of people who already
have reasons to meet, to come together into a group-of-groups series of
events.  At these gatherings we 'amplifiy' the message about what we
are doing to get networked and how we're doing it so we mutually learn
and enable.

The big target is a conference in 2010 which has been styled as a "European TED" [but without the invitation-only snobbery IMO]

What do you think about that?

PS note the main site is now Amplified09.com  

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I will be speaking at Amplified 08 a "Network of Networks" event to bring together the creative thinking around several business networking events.

This is a ground-breaking event for business in the UK.  I have had the pleasure of being at a couple of 'seminal moments' when great things started (Social Media Cafe planning event in the Methodist Central Hall; Peppers and Rogers' methodology development; Pembridge investment strategy planning).  Frequently I haven't realised at the time how important they were to become.

This is one of those moments. 

Amplified08 will be one of the thought-leaders for this decade about new ways of doing business and harnessing the strength of our networks.

And I am very honoured to have been asked to chair a session and being described as a 'network guide'. Plus I've volunteered for a group about using social media for business development 'cos that's what I do.

Have a browse around the Wiki and read the newsletter and topic suggestions to find out more.

Conference Mantra:

What Works? What Doesn't? What Next?

• Create a network of networks which can amplify the power and reach of both our personal networks and the various UK social media, technology production and mobile media networking meetups that we regularly attend
• Come together to share our ideas and projects, to discover new ways of working together, and to break through the generation of silos among social media communities
• Coordinate the common themes from our various member networks to advance the causes that are important to the social media and technology scene in the UK
• Capture the collective intelligence from this first event to build our knowledge base and provide a more focused starting point for the next event in February
• Plan ahead for collaborative projects at the next event and beyond
• Work towards creating a major Network of Networks event targetted for 2010, working with NESTA that will run in conjunction with their own Innovation Edge conference.   We’re building towards 4,000 attendees that year, and a conference that will have the flavour of a "TED for Europe" [TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.]

Style:

Barcamp style organization
Unconference approachEverybody contributes
Everybody tweets
Live video streaming of each roomLive blogging, photo and video sharing
Encourage remote participation from anywhere in the World

 

 I love the ambition of creating a "TED" for Europe.  

And please, get involved yourself.

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