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Yo Folks! This is Berlin calling! Day one of one of the best known ‘social media conferences’ is over. re:publica 2010 started with an quite interesting programme. So here is a short recap – a more detailed one will follow after re:publica 2010 is finished. a german one will be posted on it-know-how.de when we’re back home.

First presentation of the day was by Peter Glaser and was about the digital faszination. Subtitle “living on the 8th contintent”. Some interesting thoughts, a little to fancy – but that’s what one has to expect when the ‘blogging elite’ meets and speaks ;-) Basically Peter Glaser told us that the internet shouldn’t be recognized as a ‘medium’ but as a place, a place to stay and to live – a continent. After all a nice start into the day (after getting up at 5 a.m.!!!).

Follow up presenter was Evgeny Morozov. He was talking about ‘A Twitter revolution without revolutionaries”. In my oppinion, not the best presentation today. First Evgeny did a little show off thing by saying that he was responsible for the term ‘twitter revolution’ since he somehow said this first when talking about twitter initiatives in Moldavia…well….Furthermore he was talking about how revolutions happened without having single revolutional leaders….

Afterwards, presentation # 3 on this first day of re:publica 2010 was – of course – the one everybody was waiting for. Jeff Jarvis (if you really don’t know who it is, go ask google!) hit the stage and was talking about the ‘German Paradoxon – Privacy, publicness & penises“. When reading Jeff’s blog regularly, it wasn’t something completely new (he covered the topics already in his blog posts) but the way he presented it was pretty cool. Jeff Jarvis is simply an awesome presenter and knows exactly how to handle a larger audience. And hearing his thoughts is of course way cooler than just reading it. And when it came to Q&A he ran through the audience in order to hand a microphone to the guys that hat questions (and I almost could touch him ;-) ).

The talk itself was pretty much about the fascinating fact that we Germans pretty much show everything when going to a public sauna (men & women together, naked!) but when it comes to the internet we tend to be against everything (I already covered that in some blogposts). In his opinion things that happen in the public, belong to the public. And we all are the public! If you disallow google to take photos of public places, streets or houses, you also have to disallow tourists to take photos of these locations…furthermore he said that it’s quite funny (or strange) when politicians threaten facebook with their leave… (yeah, same thing I said ;-) ).

One catch phrase I really liked was ‘public by default’. We should not think that we have to allow (google or other services) to find stuff about us – if we don’t want something to be found, we maybe shouldn’t do it or keep it private. public by default. Nice term in my opinion.

In order to come back to the subtitle: Why penises? Well Jeff Jarvis had prostate cancer and talked about it pretty openly on his blog. But obviously that is something that everybody needs to figure out for themselves. How far does openness go or should go? Anyway. Quite interesting talk, great performance and I am really sorry that I wasn’t able to meet Jeff at the day spa sauna afterwards ;-)

After Jeff Jarvis we had a little lunch break and went on to Udo Vetter who talked about some legal issues. Especially about common stuff for bloggers like ‘do I need an imprint?’ or ‘what about privacy?’. Was quite nice and he did quite a good job for an attorney. Nothing really new, but always good to hear once in a while. Even better with some use cases. Nice!

re:publica 2010 | Peter Kruse

Right after Udo Vetter we went on to see Peter Kruse who I didn’t knew before. But he pretty much rocked his session called ‘what’s next – how networks revolutionize the economy and the society’. He talked about digital visitors and digital residents who have different opinions on how to use the (social) web and explained why it is quite logical why there is always a discussion about social networks. I really recommend to have a look at the presentation, ’cause I am way to tired to explain everything in detail right now ;-). Like Jeff Jarvis, he referred to the Cluetrain Manifesto and told us that he thinks that change has already started and that there is no need to put pressure on folks that are not into (social) web (2.0) stuff. All it needs…is time…As I said, great presentation. One of today’s highlights!

The last session for this recap (I’m really tired =) ) was held by Sascha Pallenberg and called “How to monetize blogs”. And well, I was hoping for some hands-on advice. But is was basically about ‘create good content’ & ‘create links (to people)’, ‘grow your network’ and put effort in your posts….wow…fantastic ;-)

So. That’s it for now. Next stop day 2  (hopefully with better wireless lan connections – today it pretty much sucked!). Really had a good time today (besides listening to some cool speeches I met some very very cool and valued friends). Looking forward to tomorrow. re:publica 2010 rocks!

Related posts:

1. re:publica 2010 – day 3 recap
2. re:publica 2010 recap day 2
3. meshed up | meshed#2 recap

Tags: conference, re:publica, Social Media

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