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David Jones (left), Ed Lee and I meeting up on the Friday afternoon before PodCamp Toronto.
It’s taken a few days, but I have emerged from the depths of what Bob Goyetche calls “post-PodCamp letdown mode.” Time to look back.
Last weekend’s visit to Toronto for PodCamp Toronto was, quite simply, outstanding. Plenty of teaching, sharing, and learning, just like PodCamp Boston. I caught up with old friends, like Jay Moonah — in fact, we also led a presentation together on Second Life — Mitch Joel, Christopher Penn, Chris Brogan, John Wall, Leesa Barnes, Michael Bailey, Mark Blevis, and Bob Goyetche; met face-to-face for the very first time with so many others that I had gotten to know online in the past several months, including Terry Fallis, Donna Papacosta, Michael Seaton, Luke Armour, Chris Clarke, Michelle Tampoya, David Jones, and Ed Lee; and met several new people with whom I look forward to sharing the social media space in the months and years to come, like Eden Spodek, Vergel Evans, Sulemaan Ahmed, and Sonya Buyting.
Here are my most top takeaways from the event:
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Here are the relevant links for my presentation with Jay Moonah at PodCamp Toronto last weekends.
“It Isn’t Just a Video Game: Second Life for Events”
* Quicktime Video
* mp3 audio
* Presentation slides (PDF)
* Presentation notes (PDF)
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I popped into Boston this morning — and more specifically, erectile into the Sweet Finnish in Jamaica Plain — for the monthly meetup of the Boston Media Makers, dosage who are led by the ubiquitous Steve Garfield.
It took more than two hours to go ’round the table, so that the 30 of us could introduce ourselves and talk about our current and future projects. I especially enjoyed learning from people that I either didn’t know well or had never met at all, and was reminded yet again that the Boston area is oozing with new-media talent.
Here are a few of my takeaways:
* To record a screencast, Steve Albanese from TutorialDEPOT advises using Snapz on a Mac and Camtasia version 3.1.2 on the PC.
* Beth Kanter (above) is one fascinating woman. She blogs on educational technology, social change, and the Khmer culture, among other topics. Give her flagship blog, Beth’s Blog, a look-see.
* Adam Weiss, one of my fellow co-organizers of PodCamp Boston last fall, has set up and produced a series of podcasts for Forrester Research. The podcasts don’t appear in a search on Forrester’s site yet, but presumably, they will soon.
* Ashley Hodson (above, right) has just completed one heckuva road trip. She and Megan McLaughlin logged 14,000 miles since last summer exploring some of this nation’s sustainability projects. The pair’s journey is chronicled through text and video at Sustainable Route.
* A second free daily newspaper, joining the Metro, is coming to Boston. Regina O’Brien spoke about BostonNOW, a paper launching later this year both online and in print. The paper will feature a mix of wire stories and contributions from citizen journalists, including local bloggers, photographers, and artists. Sound intriguing? Visit the BostonNOW blog for more information, including details on an upcoming public meeting.
I’ve posted more photos from the meetup on my Flickr stream.
Steve Garfield offers the notes from the meeting as well.
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5 Responses
Beth
06|Mar|2007 1Nice to meet you too! Thanks for the nice photo! I made a little video of what I learned … and used some of your stills.
Bryan
06|Mar|2007 2Thanks, Beth. I’ve blogged it!
http://www.bryper.com/2007/03/06/learning-about-video-production-values/
Alex Grogan
06|Mar|2007 3This may seem a bit “trollish” but I was just wondering if that 14,000 miles was done in an electric vehicle or not.
At 30 mpg, that would be around 466 gallons of gasoline which was burned and turned into toxic emissions.
I will have to check out some of the footage which came out of of the trip and learn something new about sustainability.
Bryan
06|Mar|2007 4Good question, Alex, and one that I don’t have the answer to. But it sounds like you’re willing to go and research that question!
Emily Sweeney
07|Mar|2007 5’twas nice meeting you in person! that meeting was great…I’m looking fwd to the next one.
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