The Online Community Camp 2006 took place last Thursday. Here are a few observations:

1) We had a very experienced and senior group show up (capped at 110 participants -- 40 on waiting list) reflecting great interest in discussing issues on online interaction with other practitioners.

2) The event itself ran smoothly. Ft. Mason is a fun venue -- particularly on a gorgeous day. People seemed to get a lot out of it (we're polling opinions now).

3) We used an untraditional approach of fixing the days agenda (mostly nine breakout sessions) at the start of the day. The big news was that this seemed to be no big deal to participants -- and ran very smoothly. I think the sessions and presenters we had were certainly as good as any agenda set in advance, with the advantage of much more participant buy-in. The agenda-setting process itself was very instructive to folks in seeing what issues were on which peoples minds, especially as we voted on topics.

Overall the event was great. We'll use the tag "occ2006" so in coming days you should be able to watch blog posts, photos, or other content with this tag. Thanks again to all who participated!

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