I’ve been meaning to set out more on Bridging Media but have been too busy until today. Thinking about it, I’ve been trying to analyze just what made this event on March 29th such a success? Not only the hard work of the organizing team and the vision of the two founders, Erica Hargreave and Megan Cole, but also the willingness of the panelists to open up to the group and the easy interaction between the panelists and the audience. The setup in the round helped a lot, so it was more like sharing a conversation between panelists rather than having a linear group each taking a turn to show and tell.

Also, from start to finish this was a rapid and effective free community event. The concept came into reality very quickly - and this includes panelists, equipment, sponsors, barbeque from the folks at Vera’s Burgers, remarkable real-time liveblogging documentation by Miss604 and Robert Ouimet’s full podcast of the proceedings that was made available the next morning.  With around 150 people registered from both the video production and interactive media communities, this was a terrific example of the kinds of open events that are making a difference now in all fields.