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Monday, April 09, 2007

 

Get Out & Play! PodCampNYC Report

What a Great Day! Though I must say, I thought it would be more crowded. I actually ran into a couple of people I know: Sarah McPherson one of my NYIT professors, and Webgrrls International NYC chapter leader Nelly Yusupova. YOU SHOULD JOIN! I did meet some interesting people, volunteered for 'watching the computer' for an hour, and attended some great sessions. Unfortunately I was unable to attend the after party-ing at Slate. Aside from Podcasting, there were blogging sessions, too, which I was most interested in . I also learned how to use WordPress to support multiple bloggers to a hosted website from one of the participants - I think it was Eric Skiff from clipmarks.com (great tool for clipping parts of web pages and saving/sharing them) who offered a solution for that.

I attended 5 different sessions -

  • Amy Domestico of blogTalkRadio led an information session on using about BlogTalkRadio to host your own Internet radio podcast, live! Of course it does get archived for later listening. What a fabulous service.. you can hook up to 7 different people via phone (other tools coming.. including community groups) for a podcast panel, broadcast it live.. this could be very useful for...
  • Wayne Turmel, host of The Cranky Middle Manager Show who led a session on 'Creating a Read Podcast Brand' He told his story about growing his podcast audience. He is now featured as a writer on a British website. Interestingly, when he polled his readers listeners they most often expressed an interest in being able to connect with each other (enter BlogTalkRadio). Which brings us to ...
  • CC Chapman on the New Media Playground talking about - how we connect in this read/write /record/listen web world. Twitter this! Very friendly, very connected - he even has an island on second life, that virtual reality world site that I haven't explored yet. I will get to that when the semester is over. There are lots of 'adults' there, too. Chris drove home the point that we each have a unique voice and others are interested in sharing with us.. so Go out and Play! .. blog, find other blogs, make comments, get connected!
  • Valerie Luther of Creative Concepts talked about using blogging for business. Her company created a very successful blogging, marketing strategy for Biglow Tea and she discussed the process of growing that. It's making a significant difference for the company. Valerie's company is hosting a onference on May 15 2007, BusinessSmartTools, in Stamford Connecticut. She is a very engaging speaker and I am sure the conference will be worthwhile.
  • More marketing ideas from Chris Penn of Edvisors, who was very knowledgeable about the blogosphere and podcasting, spoke fast, and reinforced much of what other had to say. I am a member of Linked-In, and Chris had contacted me there before the conference. He does a DAILY podcast & blog at Financial Aid Podcast, primarily tuning into the college-student market and categories on Podcast, PodCamp, Focus on Financial Aid, Podsafe Music, Scholarship Update, Mailbag, and Politics .
There were some great vendors, too. My personal faves: magnify.net lets you create your own video channel.. this is one to watch! Many thanks to NY:MIEG (Media Information Exchange Group) and Imprint Alliance Group for those handy carry bags with handels! and to Talk Radio Comedy Podcast - Anything but Monday Show (abmshow.com) for gum in catchy little match boxes (such as.. No, No, You ShutUp! and You Have a Great Ass). I didn't see Mark Gura, but I did see Dr. Kathy King from Podcasts for Teachers of Fordham's Center for Professional Development. You should listen! Podango is a podcast station - just tune into a channel of interest - let someone else do the searching - lots of other tools, too. Another podcast worth mentioning here is On Digital Media, a podcast all about e-media. You can find them at www.odmcast.com. New technologies present very accessible live interaction solutions .. in addition to BlogTalk Radio, interactivity is the impetus for PodGlo, CrowdAbout and TalkShoe.

I was very impressed with the organic nature of the event and the presenters. They had great experiences to relay and excellent ideas. Someone I missed was Laura Allen, co-founder of 15secondpitch.com. If you are doing any kind of marketing, this looks like a great tool and you can share your pitch from their site. The event itself was organized very 'organically,' - they used wikis and blogs throughout the website which made it a simple process to register, volunteer, add events, and resources and they will be updating the site.

It's time to get serious about blogging and connectingvia the web with new people. How? comment, link, technorati, stumble upon (and don't forget to stumble upon your own site), maybe twitter, linked-in, ning. Poke around. I've found lots of useful tools by reading other's blog.. like this one-click blogroll tool from blogrolling.com .. what a great timesaver! Investing time, takes time, ... and over the next few weeks I won't have too much to spare. - school work, trip to Arizona and working may keep me away for awhile!
PodCampNYC was a wonderful experience... and people are busy organizing them in other cities.


For some pics, try this link to a flicker search. Check out the NYC Podcamp Wiki for resources .. which are minimal right now, but hopefully many will be added soon. Did you attend PodCampNYC - what did you find most interesting?

The BIG question for teacher, is how do we use these tools and resources in the classroom for learning. Many are using blogs, but the social network phenomena is frowned upon. You might want to connect your students in a Ning network .. or encourage online portfolio development. What are your thoughts?

All the Best,

Lynne

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# posted by Lynne Bailey @ 10:05 AM
Comments:
Lynne Bailey,

Thanks for your comments. We had a great time too both as attendees and as speakers. And thanks for the link to the conference...it is going to be great!

Take care,

Valorie Luther
Creative Concepts
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 6:25 AM
 
Very happy to hear that you found my speech useful. The presentation and a video can be found on http://www.managingthegray.com if you are curious.

Psyched to see your enthusiasm! Keep it going and keep playing.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 11:40 AM
 
Hey Lynne
I was glad to get to meet you

let us know where you are producing digital media so we can watch and listen

We know you are always doing great things for teachers and learners...

Also the book we spoke about was released 5/2/07
Podcasting for Teachers from Information Age Publishing--- check out episode 85 at the podcast for a surprise announcement....

Those of you New York folk who know Mark will have a hoot!!!

Very best to our NYC and virtual innovators,
Kathy and Mark

Podcast for Teachers
in our 2nd year!
www.podcastforteachers.org
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 11:06 PM
 
Lynne,

Thanks for the mention! Just a small correction, the PodGlo URL is www.podglo.com

Thanks,

Doug K.
# posted by Blogger Pod Glo : 5:42 PM
 
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