I think it is safe to say that an incredible shared experience was had by the 225 people at the Google HQ, the thousands more who participated in the live stream and chat, and those who contributed to over 1200 tweets on June 15 alone!

But there is nothing like first hand accounts from those in the audience to get a feel for what took place at the first ever Social Recruiting Summit.

Here are some of what has been written by the participants. If you have something to add or are in the process of writing your own post about your experience, please leave a link to it in the comments section to this post. Hopefully we can do a follow up in a few weeks with additional links to those accounts.

• From Paul Jacobs, who won the award for the longest and most roundabout trip over from New Zealand (which included 4 stops along the way!). Read his thoughts about the summit here.
• From Jenny DeVaughn, who did an unbelievable job, along with Kathleen Smith & our friends at Jobscience, in organizing the pre-summit tweetup. Her thoughts here.
• Here are Brett Farmiloe from Jobing’s notes from the summit.
• Michael Specht, who also made the long trek over from Down Under shared his thoughts here.
• Jennifer McClure, aka CincyRecruiter, shared her thoughts here in a vlog entry.
• Another member of the jet set attendee base, Matt Alder who came over from the UK, shared his thoughts here.
• One of our session leader Chris Hoyt, aka The Recruiter Guy, shared some of his thoughts, along with a video and slides from the presentation that he and Michael Marlatt gave on mobile recruiting. Check it out here.
• Julian Seery Gude shared his thoughts on Shannon’s presentation here.