The seminar looked at companies making content work for them through subscription models.
The speakers were Paul Carr, Editor, The Friday Thing; James Boxell, Subscription Editor, FT.com; and Nick Downes, Commercial Director, New Crane Internet, which is doing the DeliaOnline site for Delia Smith.
The Friday Thing is a paid-for satirical email newsletter, quite a good one, and one which proves my theory that non-business content needs to be charged at very low levels -
It started aroun 6-ish. ‘Bed’ is quite a funky venue in the trendy Smithfields area. People arrived in dribs and drabs till about 6.30pm when about 30 people arrived in one go and the thing just got better and better. With about 130 people turning up, out of 160 RSVPs, eventually there was actually not a lot of room, but people seemed to take it in good stride and it certainly made for a great atmosphere.
There were quite a lot of people from the hi-tech crowd, but it was interesting to see a range of other industries represented like the media, finance and creative.
Eventually people seemed to drift off after 10.30pm leaving a small hard core drinking and chatting into the night.
Many thanks to the organising committee.
Sanford Dickert
Elisabeth Varley
Mike Butcher (me)
Francesca Zardini
With help from:
Tracy Hoenninger
Kris Surroy
Aral Balkan
Rana Sarkar
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