I think AE Mez is a valuable tool to use but needs to be practiced so that you don't accidentally mez yourself. In Kunark era, I often used it to keep a chain pull going, holding 6-8 mezzed mobs as the group plowed their way thru.
Your color stuns are also valuable tools to get aggro off yourself and stun caster mobs from casting. As I got more familiar with the chanter's abilities, I often would pull for groups with tash, stunning the mob, and letting MT take aggro off of me (this needs a fast aggro generating MT though).
I think the most important thing in playing a group enchanter is seeing everything that is happening around you. Seeing what the MA is targetting and cycling to the other mobs for crowd control. I toggle between using cycle next npc or I reposition myself and hit target nearest mob. It depends on the situation and is something you just need to learn for yourself.
I also advise that you try to stagger your buffs so you are not out of mana at any given point. Most chanters are lazy and try to buff everyone at same time, therefore keeping the same buff timer, but I think it's much more efficient to have them spread out and just let people ask for rebuffs. You never know when you might need that mana for a bad pull.
As for specialization, I did go for conjuration as this is the primary skill for mezzing. Somewhere around velious I switched this to alteration as I became more of a buffbot than crowd control and being an enchanter became a lot less fun.
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