Sex 2.0, v2 – success!
If you follow my tweets, you already know that Sex 2.0 was a blast. I’m going to do a proper recap post as soon as I get a free minute or thirty. In the meantime, here are some photos:
Sadly, scheduled keynote speaker Nikol Hasler fell ill days before the conference and was unable to attend. Melissa Gira stepped up, doing a This American Life-esque keynote with Dacia playing Ira Glass from the back of the room. I sure hope someone got audio and/or video.
MySpace-esque photo of me and Melissa. She knows how to sit like a lady while I clearly do not.
This is how the sex nerds get down.
(Shades of this photo [coincidentally, also in Washington]. It’s clear I value certain priorities in my friends.)
I’ll also be posting audio of the Revisiting Naked on the Internet panel, which I was on along with Melissa and Furry Girl, and Dacia moderating. It’ll be up as an episode of (un)ConCast whenever Rusty does his MacBook Pro magic on the audio file.
Also, I’ve been collecting links to other posts recapping Sex 2.0 in my del.icio.us.
Thanks, all, for a terrific weekend!
Sex 2.0, one week later
Sex 2.0 was last weekend, and I think people are finally starting to come down from the post-orgasmic bliss state that characterized last week’s tweets, blog posts, emails, etc. (On a less pleasant note, I have yet to shake this case of con crud.)
A few days ago, I posted a big round-up of what other people had to say about the conference; but I have yet to post my reactions. So here are a few.
First of all, simply the fact that all of last week seemed like a post-orgasmic bliss-like state – and Twitter was a downright lovefest – is testament to Sex 2.0’s huge success. I had hoped for it to be successful, bring people together, foster community, blah blah blah… but it really did all that and more in a way that exceeded my wildest dreams. I am so pleased!
The only complaint I heard was that there were too many interesting sessions going on at once! I lost count of the number of people who told me they wished it had been two days.
Dacia and I were talking about how one thing that was unique about Sex 2.0 was that people seemed to be more interested in actually talking and interacting face-to-face, rather than obsessively documenting the event via liveblogging, photos, Twitter, etc. Don’t get me wrong, all of those things were going on; but it definitely was a different vibe than any other social media-related conference I’ve been to. People were so interested and engaged in the discussions, that they couldn’t be bothered to stop and pick up their iPhones. And to me that’s what it’s all about! Social media should foster the social, after all.
Also – and this might seem paradoxical to the last point, but it’s really not – instead of just talking about the various social media tools available, people were actually using the tools to create original content and do cool things. Whether it was showing people how social media can help sex workers form an online community for real-world activism, or role-playing the ups and downs of being internet famous (I’m still annoyed with myself for not going to Melissa’s session), this conference was about doing and not just being meta. Several people were inspired to create new blogs or other social media projects last weekend, and I look forward to seeing how they develop.
Overall, I believe it was the combination of strong content, the energy of the people there, and the comfort of being in a judgment-free space that created Sex 2.0’s unique heights of awesomeness. There are already plans in the works for next year; I love to see this excitement! The consensus seems to be that it will be in DC next year. Sounds good to me… I’ll see y’all there!
The Sex 2.0 back-channel
…a.k.a., the One True Wrap-up Post To Rule Them All.
Live-blogging
A sampling of wrap-up posts
- village voice sex naked city – Sex 2.0 Brings the Internet’s Sex Nerds to Atlanta – Dacia’s Sex 2.0 video on Naked City TV
- Sex Trade: Sex conference brings bloggers together to Twitter about getting laid – Melissa’s wrap-up on Valleywag
- Renegade Evolution: Sex 2.0, the Awesome & the Suck – Ren’s truly comprehensive wrap-up of Sex 2.0! (“The Suck” refers to her being stuck in the airport.)
- Radical Georgia Moderate » Sex 2.0 exceeded my expectations – Rusty’s wrap-up post.
Many more Sex 2.0-related blog posts are saved in my del.icio.us, and I’ll be updating with more as I find them.
I’ll also be checking Technorati periodically. If you write something Sex 2.0-related, please remember to tag it “sex20″ so it’ll get picked up by Technorati!
Other links
- Outline of Audacia Ray’s keynote
- Sex 2.0 “sex commons” forum on Sex in the Public Square, where participants in Elizabeth’s session (or anyone, really!) can continue the discussion begun at the conference.
People who were Twittering at Sex 2.0
- amberlrhea
- audaciaray
- cunningminx
- debrisblanche
- elizabethSITPS
- ellie_lumpesse
- eternal42
- funkybrownchick
- furrygirl
- inaradeluna
- Jennagain
- jbrotherlove
- kimberleecline
- melissagira
- misstreah
- MistressMaeve
- museumfreak
- peacetara
- playwithmatch
- raquelita
- reginalynn
- rustytanton
- SakuraSarashi
- SFEley
- Starre
- subnouveau
- tiffanybbrown
- tmoenk
- viviane212
All tweets from people who used the #sex20 hashtag are at http://twemes.com/sex20.
I took screenshots of some of my favorite tweets. (I certainly missed some, because there were over 1,000 tweets, y’all.)
More screenshots here.
Photographic evidence
Of course, there is a Sex 2.0 Flickr group. Currently it’s invite-only, to keep away prying/creepy eyes. If you want to join so you can add photos, there’s a “request invitation” link (or something like that, I don’t know what the exact text is) that you can click, and I’ll add you.
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Thanks to everyone who came to Sex 2.0 and made it a truly amazing event!! The only complaints I’ve heard about it were that there were too many awesome sessions going on at once so it was hard to decide where to go, so I consider that a success!
There’s already energy for doing it again next year… how about in Washginton, DC this time? That seems to be the growing consensus. (Maeve, I would totally be down with Burlington, VT too, if you can find a venue!)
Thanks again, y’all. It was a wonderful weekend.
[Cross-posted on the Sex 2.0 blog, natch]
Fan-girl moment
I haven’t been doing any liveblogging today. I’ve been doing a fair amount of Twittering but just haven’t felt like liveblogging.
We got to BlogHer a little late today because we needed to shake off some cobwebs (am I using that phrase correctly?) this morning, but it has been a great day so far. Actually, at the moment I’m sitting in the closing keynote with Elizabeth Edwards, and it’s going great. Anyway, just wanted to share this photo Viviane took yesterday of Susie Bright and me. :)
More blogging to come later! Tonight we’ll probably be chilling at the cocktail reception, and then collapsing into bed. (Major thanks to Cunning Minx for giving us a ride back to our hotel last night, btw! That was huge.)