Last Friday, I attended my fourth BarcampBank. It was in a suburban area of Chicago (Naperville) and the event was located at the Illnois Credit Union League offices. It is always interesting to see the slight differences in how these events come to life but this event, for me, didn't disappoint. There were about twenty participants for the day and everyone else was new to the whole Barcamp vibe and experience.

I was happy to see that there was a nice range of discussions that didn't all center around social media (which has become a consistent topic at this events). There were topics ranging from marketing segments, what's the future of the financial industry & assocations/leagues, Board of Director diversity and even a little compliance talk (yay!).

The day went by really fast and I left in a rush and didn't get a chance to adequately thank everyone for the good discussions and their hospitality but I truly had a great time. I really believe that conferences should shift a major portion of their agendas to this crowd-sourced, roundtable format. I tried to take some notes during the event and had my snazzy pen taking up all the good audio points so I'll include the first discussion of the day on what became titled as "Social Media 102 | Case Studies & Examples."

Note: Takes about twenty seconds for audio to load and you can click around on the embedded page below to fast forward to that part of the conversation (cool eh?)

Also, here are some more pictures from the event. Thanks to Carla Day, Stacy Dugan, and Christopher Morris on the hospitality and running such a great first event in Chicago!