Hi Harold! Thanks for putting together the blog post and for sharing those insights! I am a bit puzzled with your first paragraph where you mention the issue about labels... Hummm, not sure, but I went through this Registration link form > https://www.collaborationjam.com/minijam3/jam/registration/index.do?jamId=83289 and I didn't have to go through such labelling; in fact, I would, too, feel pretty upset about it, if I did encounter when registering for the event. Can you share a picture of what it looks like and see if I can compare it with the form I have gone through myself? That would be wonderful! I could then pass it on!

RE: conversations so far being marketing oriented, that may have been the perception in the first couple of hours; 9 hours later I have been having a bunch of conversations on Personal Branding, Informal Learning, Social Learning, Social Software Adoption, Activity Centric Computing, Adaptive Case Management, Observable Work, Leaving a legacy behind, and a bunch of others not much to do with marketing. Maybe time needed to kick in to develop some other interesting conversations ...

Either way, will pass on your comments and get the folks running the Jam to comment on your concerns about the openness of the event; I suspect it's more down to a scalability issue, but would try to confirm...

Thanks again for the heads up! And speak to you soon! :) (Hopefully, in the Jam itself ;-))