This initial personal feedback is by no means comprehensive! Late night memory fragments:

It seems there was a compatibility problem with the venue's projector and the new media downunder. The first presenter, Thomas N. Burg did not loose his cool and continued about Government (overseas!) sponsored innovations and research w.r.t. social software for learning organisations.

Over the top of boat-building and raging party noises, the other speakers could be filtered out by an attentive audience.

Rebecca Blood argued for an enabling 'participatory media' usage, especially citizen science projects could significantly impact on social and ecological concerns. In Q/A time the problematic relationship of education and blogs were raised, she responded by saying: 'Blogging is in an uneasy relationship to everything, education, business etc.'

Mark Bernstein brought a lively, spot-on presence into the space responding to Robert Ackland's research he summarised: 'Liberals talk to the world, conservatives link to their network'. He also mentioned new EU privacy rights regarding the publication of personal images without permission. A Mobloggers nightmare! Looking foreward to his talk tomorrow..

Last minute the audience came out and reported on how little current social technologies, like blogging are actually utilised and 'taught' in their workplaces. An unsettling thought that some of these graduates of the Australian educational systems, could actually get a job with IBM  and did not have the media literacy to blog (pdf) the Intranet there…..