Dear Thinkers, Amazingly, a week has already passed since Thinking Digital 2010. For me, the 'recovery' process from this year's conference has been a lot easier than the past two years. Part of this is probably down to experience but I think mainly it is because Thinking Digital 2010 or #TDC10 actually exceeded our expectations in so many ways.   We hosted delegates from 17 countries this year and a large number of Thinking Digital first-timers. Time and again you keep commenting about the great atmosphere of the conference. Of course, so much of that is down to you and the warm, welcoming, witty and fun digital microcosm that you helped create.   And while we only numbered 500 at The Sage Gateshead, our collective voice was heard far and wide. As Lauren Laverne mentioned, the 4000 tweets sent by 700 people during the conference sent our Twitter hashtag - #TDC10 - to the number one spot on Twitter in the UK for much of Wednesday and Thursday.   Since the start of the conference we've seen an explosion of user-generated and social media content so I wanted to send you an email that tried to aggregate much of what we found. Please let me know if I've missed anything! So here's the list...   Blogs and Articles (all links to articles are in green)   Alison Gow @AlisonGow, of the Liverpool Echo blogpost review of her Thinking Digital 2010 experience. And her follow-up print edition article. Sarah Hartley, @FoodieSarah, of the Guardian and her thoughts on Day One of Thinking Digital. Marc Holmes, @MarcHolmes, of Microsoft. Paul Fabretti, @PaulFabretti, of Gabba. Stephen Waddington, @Wadds, of Speed Communications & Admiral PR. Benjamin Ellis, @BenjaminEllis, of Redacto & Chinwag Jas Dhaliwal, @Jas, of AVG Claire Stokoe, @Killer_Bunnie, of Psychomedia. Jonathan Seal, @Jay_Seal, of Mando Group. Michael J. Bell, @DigitalJoseph, of the NHS. Stuart Smith, @StuMSmith, Founder of 3Sheep. Sara Allison, @ubelly and @SaraAllison of ubelly.com and Microsoft. Ewan McIntosh, Digital Dockyard. Steve Clayton, @SteveCla, of Microsoft Rain Ashford, @RainRabbit, of the BBC Sarah Platt, @Kinura, Founder of Kinura UK (our webstreaming company). NewMediaMonthly Rainy Cats - Arduino Workshop Write-Up Pictures & Video   We'll be posting our own pictures and videos shortly but in the meantime checkout:   David Coxon's, @DavidCoxon, flickr set. Ben Ellis' flickr set. Brian Solis', @BrianSolis, flickr sets. Rain Ashford's, @RainRabbit, flickr set. 10 sets (!) of #TDC10 photos from Janet Davis, @JanetEDavis Sarah Platt's flickr set. Ian Smith's, @IDS, flickr set. Claire Stokoe's flickr set. Monica Tailor's, @Monica_Tailor, visualisation of Robert McKee's 2-day Thinking Digital University class. Tim Allison's, @DarlingDash, witty and funny video. We've also used Microsoft's amazing photosynth system to merge the visualisations in the Barbour room into one image, below you can click to check out both at the photosynth.net website or view the high-res jpegs.   Day One Photosynth Day Two Photosynth Day One High-Res Jpeg Day Two High-Res Jpeg   Twitter   The #TDC10 Twitter Stream PicFog - a neat roundup of all the pics posted on Twitter via Jas Dhaliwal @jas Twitter Parade: checkout this fun Twitter visualisation tool at - on the homepage click on the keyword tab and enter 'TDC10' to begin - via Steve Clayton @SteveCla If you've got the time, an archive of the thousands of tweets sent from 9:08am on Wed, 26 May onwards we have a live transcript of all of the tweets - thanks to the anonymous Thinker who set us up a What the Trend Archive. It's also worth checking out What the Hashtag if you like doing Twitter analysis. And if you're not following already, follow us at http://www.twitter.com/ThinkingDigital.   Once again, thank you all for the great support you have given to make this conference the wonderful gathering it has become. This year's speakers and talks were almost uniformly strong and excellent but it's what's happening before and after the talks between members of the community that is really setting Thinking Digital apart from nearly any other conference or event.   If I have missed anything off the list above please do let me know and I'll do my best to spread the word in the future.   I'll be in touch later this week with our annual Thinking Digital survey so please lookout for that if you can.   And, hopefully, most of you know that registration is now open - we'd greatly appreciate your early support for 2011 by registering now at these cheap prices. We'll be closing this round of registration on Thursday, 24 June and offering 100% of your money back until the beginning of March 2011 so plenty of time to find out if you diary will allow you to join us.   On behalf of the Thinking Digital team, our thanks once again to you all.       Best Regards. Herb.

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