I am finally set up with a loaner computer that my fingers are reasonably used to (wow, it’s hard to get used a new keyboard!) and have had a chance to both sleep and read a bit more about reactions to the conference, both personal and public. I’m happy to say that despite the continued stream of aversion for the Messe, for me things seem to be settling into a sentiment along the lines of Lars Hemmingsen’s comment on the feedback site:

Great after effect!

After having attended 4 days and 17 sessions I lefted this years event with a bit of scepticism… like in a vacuum. But after a few days and after having shared my learnings, inspirations and my outlook from the conference with friends, colleagues and likeminded, I’ve found some of the value-for-money I’d hoped for.
It’s when you do your storytelling based on your experiences that it becomes clearer to see the perspective of the great power this media represents.
It can be expensive and hard work to climb a mountain, and it’s not before you stop and take a view you know why you’re doing it.

There are many of you I met in Berlin who were so pleased with the conference and gracious about it’s value and potential for the future; for the most part, those of you with more criticism than praise did not personally introduce yourselves to me, though if you knew me I’d hope you would not be reluctant to do so.  To all of you, if I haven’t emailed you a follow up yet, it’s due to the loss of all the business cards I collected, as well as of course the laptop.  I’ll get the attendee list at some point, but we are working through our German partner for that and I don’t have it yet.

I’ll be working on a Lessons Learned post on the plane to Tokyo, where I’m headed for Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo.  This one will be much less personally stressful as our partners at CMP Japan have headed up this effort, and it looks very promising.  Still lots to do to process about Berlin, but happy for all that’s gone well and all that we’ve learned. 

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