IDEA 2007 joins BarCampBlock and PodCamp Atlanta as conferences that set up their own CrowdVine network to help attendees meet and mingle. Looks like it was a huge succes and thank you Greg Corrin for taking the time to set it up for the conference.

One thing I noticed is that people used blog posting to organize after hour events. This is something that used to happen (poorly) on a conference wiki. We’ve already killed the Who’s Coming page – it’s a lot more effective to browse a directory of people in CrowdVine where you can see their pictures and actually have a way of making contact. Nice to see another aspect of the old conference wiki get shot down.