Hi Harald,

A good capture of the atmosphere and I like your own observations on Twitter. Brilliant.

Personally I was amazed to see a very well organized live online conference come up so quickly and Jay baffles me as usual about his energy level even after a 20h mental marathon.

Some of the thoughts that struck me at the conference is the fact that those training department procurers often wished to be involved in the decision making process of the company and left helpless in the face of budget cuts and that perhaps the economic downturn may be the ultimate chance for social media to take over as cost effective training.

On the other hand, I was a bit left hanging by too much of the "so how do we convince the training officer of our super learning 2.0" approach of virtually every session of the whole conference.

Refreshing was Vance's session connecting to the Earth Day Activists.

And here are my two pennies worth on the tool debate.

What I am sorely missing right now are 'learning products'. To me a product has product specifications (specs) just as much as a computer has a list of specs or software has a list of features.

The fascination of Pecha Kucha for me is, that this simple idea could be patented and that it is a 'product', it has specs, the specs are '20 slides auto advancing 20 sec'.

In the light of lots of IM software out there, a Tweet is a 'product' because it has 140 characters.

So, where right now in the vast ocean of fuzzy connectivism and informal learning experiences are the products?

We are always talking about tools. Is this because these seem to be "the products" out there right now?

Where are the learning products/ services that make headlines just as Pecha Kucha does?

Rgds Heike