This morning I finally had some time to look at what people were saying about Rootscamp DC on the blogosphere (and Twittersphere, of course). Last week before the conference got underway, I had set up a group on Managing News to track all mentions of Rootscamp happening online, so I just went there to see what news had come in.

I noticed a few interesting things about the coverage:

• About half of all the mentions of Rootscamp were on Twitter. This makes sense since Twitter tends to pick up users and twittering frequency around conferences and it was one of the hottest tools discussed in the sessions I went to. But that makes me a bit surprised it didn't amount to more of the coverage of Rootscamp.
• Several people blogged about the sessions they thought were best, which is nice to see in an unconference like this where the only feedback is through the crowd that attends and the verbal and written comments you get. Alice Backer said she particularly liked Tracy Russo's session on new media for organizations, which I can second. I caught the tail end of the session she led the first day and she was great - and had a packed room.
• At least one organization has put the lessons learned at Rootscamp to use already. e.politics now has two new RSS promotional tools on the site that were mentioned in Michael Whitney's session on RSS.

Lastly, I was surprised that more people didn't blog about Rootscamp, considering that most of the 200+ people that were there were online organizers and blogging comes with the territory. But maybe the weather had something to do with that. Saturday was one of the first real spring days here in Washington, DC, and it might have forced a lot of people to talk in parks and on bar patios rather than around their computers. I know that's what I did : )

Here's a look at the most recent headlines.



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