Jul 16th, 2008 |
I attended the SocialMedia BarCamp yesterday at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco. Working in an organization that produces large events such as Enterprise 2.0, I was looking forward to being part of a grass roots, completely user-generated event. I wanted to experience an event on the other end of the organization spectrum.
BarCamp came about through the efforts of the web community in response to Tim O’Reilly’s invitation-only FooCamp. They are organized and marketed through web 2.0 tools, and users are encouraged to participate in the Open Grid Sessions. Anyone in the community can host a BarCamp, and utilize the wiki. We provide a similar UnConference opportunity for Enterprise 2.0 attendees with Enterprise2Open.
