First Event Recap

Thanks to everyone who came out. Who’s ready to start planning the next one?!

Here are the stats:

1) Attendance: 35 registered, about 42 total including speakers, lurkers, and volunteers

2) Donations: $84.45 — Enough to cover our next event! (excluding food) This amount was verified by myself and JM and is in my possession.

3) Number who said they’d help out: 16

4) Number who said they’d pay a small fee for a future event: 26 – I think, for now, the donation system seems best. Comments?

5) Negative comments I heard about the event: 0

6) Positive comments I heard about the event: Many, many

Check out the panel discussion (YouTube seems to be choking on some of them occasionally, so I apologize in advance if you can’t get to all segments. If it keeps up, I’ll find an alternative way to post them Monday):

Madison Interactive First Event

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If you’re working or playing in the
Madison area, you probably find yourself thinking about things like this on a daily or hourly basis.

Well, we have the support group for you:

Madison Interactive
A new group for people who work on public websites – both for work and for play – in the
Madison area. Come hang out with us – you just might meet other people thinking about the same geeked-out things you’re thinking about.

Whether you’re uploading articles to a local media website or just tending a personal blog, we want you to join us and share your experiences.

We’ll be hosting our first free event February 15th at the High Noon Saloon, 5pm to 7pm.

Complementary appetizers will be provided. And to make it all even more interesting, we’ll also be having a brief panel discussion with some local website gurus. Details are at the bottom of this invitation.

Staff from the following local websites will be in attendance:

• madison.com
• Dane101.com
• Eating in Madison A to Z
• Contessa Says…
• Wisconsin Sports Network

If you plan on joining us – and we hope you will – please reply to this post (you don’t need to leave your real name) so we’ll have an idea of how many folks are going to show up. Also, please feel free to pass this invitation on to anyone else who you think might be interested.

Panel Discussion Details:
MadInteractive Panel No. 1

Location:
The High Noon Saloon

Event Time/Date:
5 – 7pm on Thursday, Feb 15

Panel Time:
5:30 to 6pm

Details:
We’ll have the stage and audio waiting for us. The Brass Ring will cater with appetizers.
(Panelists, please show up at 5:20 at the very latest.)

Topic: Community and commerce.
You’ve built the community. Now how do you generate revenue? Commerce isn’t inherently evil; we all need to buy stuff from time to time. The Internet can be an amazing way to connect buyers and sellers, and the community marketplace is one way to do that. What are some ideas for making commerce work for your online community?

Moderator:
Adam Powell, aka christopher_robin

Panelists:

• Todd Lekan, madison.com
• Jesse Russell, dane101.net
• Craig Bartlett, theonion.com
• Kyle Myhre aka El Guante, guante.net
• Nicholas Kartos, wissports.net
• Samarah, belladonnarecords.com

Format:

• Introduction: moderator (2 minutes)
• Opening statements: (3 minutes) 30 seconds from each panelist on the intersection of commerce and community online.
• Open discussion (20 minutes)
• Q&A from audience (5-10 minutes)

Again, if you plan on joining us, please let us know by leaving a reply to this post.

We hope to see you there!
MadInteractive

Welcome to Madison Interactive

This is the home blog of Madison Interactive – a group that has come together for the purpose of sharing concepts of how best to utilize the Internet and how to strenghten the Madison Internet community. Thank you for popping in. We have some great ideas for events in the coming year that we hope will bring the technocratic minds of Madison together.

This blog was moved today from http://interactivemadison.blogspot.com due to technical difficulties over there.