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Lessons from FaceBookCampToronto

08.11.07 | 2 Comments

The turnout for Toronto’s first FaceBookCamp was impressive. Based on the conference room capacity, I would estimate there was close to 400 people.

The event even garnered some mainstream media attention. A co-worker heard about it on CBC radio. Amber MacArthur produced a segment for CityNews International.

Here are some interesting tidbits:

Facebook is the most accessed website in Canada (I still find this are to believe). There are approximately 3 million Canadians actively using Facebook. 66% access it at least once a day.

The Facebook application development platform has been available for approximately 2 months. Since there, more than 1700 applications have been developed - 10% of them are developed in Canada. A few applications are now reaching close to 10 million installed users.

2 Responses to “Lessons from FaceBookCampToronto”

  1. Phil Barrett Says:

    It was indeed a huge turnout…so much so that the “unconference” really wasn’t one. Have you been to smaller unconferences / camp and if so, was there more active participation from the audience?

  2. jpk Says:

    Hi Phil, I’ve only been able to attend DemoCamp “unconferences”. They are significantly smaller and have more audience questions.

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