It’s hard to believe the first-ever PodCamp only took place last September, when 300 of us gathered over two days at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston (here’s a look back, photo-style).

Well, take a moment right now to consider what this “new-media community unconference” has become in the intervening 11 months, and I think even co-founders Chris Brogan and Christopher Penn would agree: something pretty damn amazing.

Following our launch in Boston, PodCamps have since been held around the country and around the world, in Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Denmark, Germany, Toronto, Atlanta, New York City, San Antonio, Sweden, and, in the last two days, Sinagpore. Heck, PodCamp has also gone virtual with an edition in Second Life.

And we’re just getting warmed up.

In the next three months alone, some eight to 10 more PodCamps will be taking place in cities across the globe, including Cape Town, South Africa, Birmingham, England; and Kilkenny, Ireland, and then culminating with PodCamp Boston 2 from October 26-28.

We are the media
And let the message be heard loud and clear: new-media enthusiasts everywhere are hungry to come together to teach, learn, and share. Social media is very much social, and I’m not just referring to online channels through which we often communication. Indeed, we look forward to, and in fact relish, PodCamp’s face-to-face working sessions, hands-on workshops, panel discussions, debates, hotel room jam sessions, and pub chats, where we share best practices, ask and answer hard questions, challenge each other to do more, make new friends and colleagues, and collaborate in endlessly interesting ways.

We’re moving collaborative media forward, one unconference at time.

We’re also getting very creative with our PodCamp audio promos. I’ll embed a few of them in posts to follow this one, so that you can listen to each one right on this blog or (hopefully) in your RSS reader.

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