Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Category: PodCamp

  • A quick rant about PodCamp co-organizers

    A quick rant about PodCamp co-organizers

    Just a quickie, two things I want to get off of my plate.

    1. Just because it doesn’t come from Chris Penn or Chris Brogan doesn’t mean you should ignore it.

    Chris Brogan and I founded PodCamp, true. However, our co-organizers are every bit as important, if not MORE important, than we are, because an event like PodCamp Boston is a HUGE team effort. If you get messages from other organizers like Steve Garfield, someone, Whitney Hoffman, etc., please give them as much attention and importance as a message from Mr. Brogan or me.

    Our co-organizers are legitimately our equals, not our lieutenants.

    2. If one organizer says no, do not ask others to say yes.

    We’re a team. Yes, we can be uncoordinated at times, and yes, we can occasionally get mixed up, but by and large, if an organizer has stepped up and taken responsibility for a part of PodCamp, they own that piece. If someone is unhappy with a PR piece, you need to talk to Doug Haslam. Chris Brogan and I will NOT override the authority and responsibility that our co-organizers have willingly taken on. If someone is unhappy with the music arrangements, someone is the final word on that. If someone doesn’t like that registration is a certain way, that’s Susan Kaup’s authority to change or not.

    I wholly and fully endorse our co-organizers, and gratefully acknowledge that despite day jobs, families, and to-do lists that are legendary, they can still find the time to make PodCamp Boston 2 a great event. Please do not ask Chris Brogan or me to treat them with disrespect or dishonor their commitment to the new media community by overriding decisions in areas of responsibility they have willingly shouldered.

    Thanks.

  • Is PodCamp Too Corporate? or, Welcome New Folks!

    Is PodCamp Too Corporate? or, Welcome New Folks!

    Bill Weye on his blog asks a great question – has PodCamp Boston, in effect, sold out, with its huge list of attendees from corporations?

    Gosh, I hope so. But not in the sense he’s thinking. In terms of sponsors and vendors, there are so far three – VON, Blue Sky Factory, and Jay Berkowitz. You’ve heard VON’s commercial pitch – attend Video on the Net for 200 instead of1,695. Blue Sky Factory hasn’t gotten their sponsorcast stuff to us yet, but they’re a mailing list service, the one that powers PodCamp Boston‘s outreach efforts.

    Here’s my thinking about all the corporations, venture capitalists, media, and marketers coming to PodCamp Boston:

    Welcome! Please go meet some new media people, and learn all about new media.

    In the year that’s passed since PodCamp Boston 1, there have been a number of success stories about new media folks being able to make a living doing what they love to do most. At the same time, there are orders of magnitude more stories about people wanting to get connected to resources (money, media, marketing) to share their work who haven’t been able to. At PodCamp Philly, Brian Conley from Alive in Baghdad mentioned very publicly that AIB is desperately looking for donors/sponsors. He and his organization are doing great, very important work telling stories that the mainstream media aren’t.

    It’s my hope as one of the organizers of PodCamp Boston that if we put folks like Brian and AIB in the same room as producers and directors from media buyers, venture capitalists like Openview and Masthead Venture Partners, that new media experts with legitimate, great content can get connected with resource partners. It’s not about selling stuff to PodCamp attendees at all, but rather connecting new people and new media together to make exciting partnerships and friendships.

    If PodCamp Boston didn’t invite people with resources to the new media community, we’d be doing the community a disservice. As Bill Weye pointed out, people come to PodCamp to collaborate and meet others doing exciting things. I hope that idea and feeling extends to new people who want to know more about new media, and isn’t just reserved for people already in the community.

    Finally, I’ll remind EVERYONE of this: the Law of Two Feet – meaning you walk away from what doesn’t interest you – doesn’t just apply to sessions. In every interaction at PodCamp, you have the right to walk away, and should do so immediately. With so many people of so many different backgrounds, you can find plenty of people of similar mind if you choose to do so. I hope you don’t. Corporate or evangelist, early adopter or conservative, I hope you meet some new friends and find ways to help each other in whatever best suits your needs in new media.

  • As shown at PodCamp Philly: Social Networks 101

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  • Amish ChrisBrogan

    It’s green. It’s eco-friendly. It’s web 2.0. Howard Greenstein of the prestigious Social Media Club calls it the Best Web 2.0 Application with a positive valuation of $10.5 million.

    It’s… Amish ChrisBrogan!

    [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D10dd0twofw[/youtube]

    Special thanks to Howard Greenstein and Kathryn Jones, as well as Eric Skiff and PodCamp Philly.

  • Blog Day 2007 – PodCamp UK

    Today we’re celebrating BlogDay 2007, and in honor honour of PodCamp UK, I thought I’d highlight the blogs of PodCamp UK’s organizers organisers and sponsors.

    So, in no particular order:

    If you’re in the UK and are free 1 September and 2 September, stop on by PodCamp UK and celebrate the day after Blog Day 2007!

    Tags: blogday blogday2007

  • PodCamp New Orleans!

    Tentative logo for PodCamp New OrleansAfter a great discussion, the unanimous vote is for a PodCamp New Orleans, so we’re beginning the process of organizing and building this event. The domain names, podcampneworleans.com and podcampneworleans.org were bought tonight – like most PodCamps, we’ll use the .org and redirect the .com name. Next steps:

    1. Create the organizing team. Who wants to be an organizer and help make this event a reality? Ideally, the organizing team will be more than 50% local New Orleans residents.
    2. Create the fundraising team. This is a departure from standard PodCamp procedure. Reasons for this will become clear shortly.
    3. Select a date. We’ll rely heavily on local organizers for this.
    4. Select a venue. We’ll rely heavily on local organizers for this.
    5. Get attendees.
    6. Get sponsors.
    7. Have the event.

    The major departure from your standard PodCamp is the fundraising team, which is independent of the organizers. The goal for PodCamp New Orleans is going to be to raise a large pile of cash, and instead of reinvesting it in a future PodCamp or sending it back to the PodCamp Foundation, any leftover funds remaining will go to relief efforts as selected by both the organizing and fundraising teams. It will be good to bring new media’s storytellers to the area to tell the stories that aren’t being told. It will be better to bring new media and a war chest that can make real, tangible change.

    If you’re interested in being a member of either team, please comment this post with your name and what team you want to be on. We’ll get the web site, registration, and other stuff up and running soon.

  • How PodCamp Led to Sex

    … or more accurately, the Sex 2.0 UnConference being organized by Amber Rhea. I’m very psyched to see Amber take the lessons she earned from PodCamp Atlanta and apply the UnConference model to a completely different industry and a completely different genre. Here’s hoping it is as wildly successful as the PodCamp UnConference series is. Somehow I don’t think that’s going to be a problem.

  • PodCamp New Orleans?

    When you think of New Orleans, what do you think of?

    Jazz?

    Great food?

    Or a city that was destroyed by a hurricane and willfully ignored by a nation afterwards?

    Chris Johnston has sparked talk about having a PodCamp in New Orleans. I can’t think of a better location for a major event like PodCamp than a city like New Orleans, because New Media professionals are storytellers, and there are more stories in New Orleans than in almost any other major American city.

    We know when people visit New Orleans – Mardi Gras. After I survive PodCamp Boston 2, I’d love to participate in organizing something in the birthplace of jazz, right around the time people are visiting anyway.

    Are you in?

  • PodCamp Boston 2 is October 26 – 28, 2007!

    If you haven’t already registered to go, please do so – and then learn about the affiliate program, where one lucky winner will win a handheld video camera!

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    Video camera contest details!

  • Another drop of water outside the podcasting fishbowl

    Podcasters Across Borders was incredible this weekend, with so many great presentations, so many good friends, and lots of discussion about podcasting. It was the quintessential community-centered event, deep inside the fishbowl, in the echo chamber, and that’s a good thing.

    Events like PAB are essential for podcasters to recharge, to regroup, to get together and share and reaffirm that podcasting is still the exciting venture it was when they started. It’s a source of energy, a source of inspiration to help people motivate or remotivate themselves to produce new media.

    On the way home, Bryan Person and I stopped at a McDonald’s in Oneonta, New York. There, a senior in high school who had just graduated came up to me at the table (Bryan was still in line) and asked, “Hey, my friends and I saw your shirt – what’s a podcast?”. (for the record, I was wearing the PAB2007 shirt, skillfully designed by Nico Pin of Snowy Day Design)

    Full stop.

    Here’s someone who is probably as ideal a candidate for new media as you can get, and they don’t know what a podcast is. When I said “it’s an MP3 internet radio show” she got it immediately as to what it was, but didn’t know what kind of content was available.

    We have a lot of work to do.

    The conclusion of PAB kicks off the promotional season of PodCamp Boston 2 for the PCB team. We’re rested, recharged, and ready to bring new media to the mainstream, and the best way we can do that is to do as much outreach as possible. PodCamp Boston 2 will ideally be the largest, best, most exciting PodCamp ever – until the one that follows it. We’re going to take the lessons of previous PodCamps and put together what we hope to be the best community UnConference we can, and we’ll need your help.

    In the weeks to come, we’re going to be talking a lot more about what we need for PodCamp Boston 2, but immediately, we’d love your help in directing people to the registration page. The URL is easy to remember: https://www.PodCampBoston.org/register

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