Ever wish there was a PodCamp in your area?
PodCamps are fun, free or inexpensive events for people interested in blogging, social media, social networking, podcasting, video on the net and new media, in general.
They’re also a chance to meet a lot of other cool podcasters. You might even end up in the greatest photo ever.
The idea [...]
PodCamp Montreal, an unconference focusing on podcasts, blogs, video and social networks, will be held this weekend at UQAM’s Design Pavillion.
Activities are scheduled Saturday September 20th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday September 21st from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A complete program is available online.
Members of the volunteer organising committee include some some of Montreal’s top podcasters and social media [...]
Tim Bourquin, creator of the New Media Expo, is thinking about quitting the tradeshow business.
He cites five reasons - reasons that he feels “threaten the very industry itself”:
High speed Internet costs. Nearly all convention centers have long-term, exclusive agreements in place with high speed Internet providers and the prices they are charging are ludicrous.
Drayage. Drayage [...]
PodCamp Philly, the second annual “unconference” style podcasting event, will be held Sept 6-7.
PodCamp Philly topics will include blogging, podcasting, video-blogs, videos and social networking.
Also, this year PodCamp Philly has teamed with SearchCamp Philly, a new unconference focused on helping small and medium sized businesses market themselves online.
PodCamp Philly/SearchCamp Philly Details:
Dates: September 6th & [...]
PodCamp Boston is coming up this weekend, July 19-20, 2008.
Unlike previous PodCamps, walk-in registrations cannot be accepted (building security needs a list of attendees). The deadline for registering for this weekend’s PodCamp Boston is noon (ET) Wednesday, July 16.
In advance of the upcoming conference, PodCamp co-founder and organizer Christopher Penn (creator and host of the Financial Aid Podcast) took some time out to answer questions about the event.
Podcamp co-founder Chris Penn told a couple of stories at Podcasters Across Borders 2008 that demonstrate how podcasting is changing the world.
Penn’s talk serves as a great reminder that there’s more to podcasting than making money.
Social media guru Chris Penn has published a free eBook, the 8 Step Guide To Podcast Marketing Basics.
Penn is the creator of the Financial Aid Podcast, co-founder of PodCamp unconferences, and co-host of the Marketing Over Coffee marketing podcast.
“This is a super-short eBook (13 pages total) that asks 8 questions of you in your efforts [...]
The latest in the series of participant-organized, Open Space “unconferences,” PodCamp Seattle debuts today (June 21, 2008) at the University of Washington Communications Building.
Colleague, friend, and Edelman Digital social media expert Eric Weaver is one of the event’s organizers. He says that the focus of the Seattle PodCamp will diverge somewhat from previous PodCamps hosted [...]
Podcast creators, podsafe musicians, and friends and families of new media mavens will be gathering this weekend at the third annual Podcasters Across Borders conference in Kingston, Ontario. Participants and presenters are coming from Canada, the United States, and from as far away as Argentina.
The conference is organized by members of the Rogic Podcast Conglomerate; [...]
PodCamps are a great opportunity to learn about podcasting and meet people involved in new media.
The events are user-organized conferences for “new media enthusiasts and professionals including bloggers, podcasters, YouTubers, social networkers, and anyone curious about new media.”
The first PodCamp was held September 8-10, 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts, but they are now being held worldwide.
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