Today @bahne tweeted a message, shouting a big ‘thank you’ for sharing the detailed LeWeb’09 participant list. The list includes names, countries, companies for most of the participants. Looking at this long table with 1550 (updated Dec 04, 2009: 2055) entries I was thrilled by the large number of companies and countries. But hey, this is just a table without emotion. That’s why I’ve created a visual each of the participants companies and countries. My incentive was to create the visuals using only free software tools.

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Within the last twelve months I did a lot of research about social media, online communication and conversation measurement. To collect useful bits of information I wrote small paper notes, an approach I borrowed from the GTD method. The notes took thier place on the notice-board, reminding me on the relevant topics while I was surfing through the web of infite distraction. The close of the 2009 is near and it’s time for a wrap up. Yesterday I took the notes down and created a mindmap. Feel free to watch and comment the mindmap. Meanwhile I am sitting before an empty board, thinking about 2010 topics.