We’re having a PodCamp meeting tonight at 8pm. Anyone planning to attend PodCamp Ohio is welcome to attend the weekly meetings.

Tonight’s agenda items:

• Promos for PodCamp Ohio
• Recap on accomplished goals
  • Registration system on-line
  • Accommodations blocked off for out of town guests
  • Post event plans at Dave and Busters
• Lunch time entertainment
• Evening before entertainment/plans
• Viral marketing update
• Seeking out sponsors (as always)
• What ever else comes up

Talkshoe link: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/80720
Phone number: (724) 444-7444
Talkcast id: 80720

March Meetup #4 in Cincinnati

PodCamp Ohio Meetup 4 will be taking place with the New Media Cincinnati meetup on Saturday, March 15 from 4:30 – 6:30 PM at the Panera Bread (405 East Kemper Road, Springdale, OH 45246) by Tri-county mall (map). Thanks Daniel for helping us get this meetup coordinated.

For those driving from as far as Northeastern Ohio and plan on shopping at the new Ohio Ikea, please contact Angelo (angelo [at] podcampohio.com).

PodCamp Ohio Registration is now available!

Register Now

I would like to thank Joe for his hard work developing the registration system. This custom registration system is allow us to gather information that we otherwise would not have gathered. If time allows, Joe will be adding some very cool features to the registration system that will allow us to see a Google map with points marked where attendees are coming from.

If you plan on attending PodCamp Ohio, we strongly encourage you to register as soon as possible that way we can accurately report attendance to sponsors, vendors and session planners.

If you will need accommodations, please visit the Travel Information page for special hotel rates and directions.

If you haven’t herd, Grammar Girl is running her own election this March to see which cities she should visit during her summer tour. If you would like to see Grammar Girl come to Columbus and possibly attend/speak at PodCamp Ohio, please send an E-mail to city@quickanddirtytips.com with the subject “Columbus”. It would not hurt to add a note in the body of the message that you would like to see her at PodCamp Ohio this June 28th as well.

Details about the city voting may be found on Grammar Girl’s web site: http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/xeriscape-zeroscape.aspx

In this episode we talk about pre/post event planning, promos, registration and session planning.

Dave is going to look at the possibility of getting podsafe entertainment for the night before PodCamp. Dave and Matt are working on creating promos.

We go over the registration page that Joe designed, it is very close to going on-line. We also discussed the Attendee Directory page that will be going live when registration goes live. We’re going to twitter the users who register with the option selected to be included in the Attendee Directory. The twitter message will start with @twitter_name + description twitter style from registration. If you’re following PodCampOhio on Twitter, you’ll know who to follow who’s going to be attending PodCamp Ohio!

We talked about planning sessions. We discussed the idea of reviewing the proposed sessions with a committee or accepting sessions in the order they are received. We decided to stick with accepting session in the order they are received. While brainstorming we took Scott’s idea of having lightning sessions with the idea that the lightning session would be on a specific topic such as Web Site Tools.

We discussed revising the web site, we’ve removed the ‘The Podcasters’ section of the blog roll and created two pages, one for Organizers and Volunteers and another for PodCamp Ohio Fans.

Next Meeting
Next Talkshoe meeting is Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 8 pm.

Talkshoe link: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/80720
Phone number: (724) 444-7444
Talkcast id: 80720

Feel free to subscribe to our feed and calendar for the latest updates.

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I have to say, last nights meeting was awesome! A lot of new ideas came about during the meeting. One in particular is a mash-up of Scott’s idea of having lighting sessions with the idea that the lightning sessions would be focused on a particular topic.

Here are my initial thoughts. The topics for these lightning sessions will need to attract multiple speakers, a topic that many podcasters and bloggers feel comfortable contributing to the conversation. Topics that come to mind are Web Site Tools (speakers talk for 5 minutes on tools they recommend for their blog/podcast web site) or Hardware Recommendations (speakers talk for 5 minutes on hardware they recommend, briefly how to use, etc…). What other session ideas are there that many podcasters would want to speak about?

Speaking for myself, I don’t plan on speaking at a full 1 hour session, but I would feel conformable speaking for 5 minutes on something specific such as WordPress plugins useful for WordPress web sites.

To see if this would work, please comment on this post with your ideas or thoughts if you would like to be a lightning speaker and/or what topics you would like in a lighting session. If there is enough interest, then we may give it a try with 1-2 sessions.

We’re having a PodCamp Talkshoe meeting tonight at 8pm. Anyone planning to attend PodCamp Ohio is welcome to attend the weekly Talkshoe meetings.

Tonight’s agenda items:

• Brain storm session planning
• Registration system
• Seeking out sponsors
• Pre/Post event planning
• What ever else comes up

Angelo may be 5-10 minutes late to the meeting.Talkshoe link: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/80720
Phone number: (724) 444-7444
Talkcast id: 80720

March 15 Meetup in Cincinnati

PodCamp Ohio Meetup 4 will be taking place with the New Media Cincinnati meetup on Saturday, March 15 from 4:30 – 6:30 PM at the Panera Bread (405 East Kemper Road, Springdale, OH 45246) by Tri-county mall (map). Thanks Daniel for helping us get this meetup coordinated.

For those driving from as far as Northeastern Ohio and plan on shopping at the new Ohio Ikea, please contact Angelo (angelo [at] podcampohio.com).

In this episode Angelo goes over where we’re at with PodCamp Ohio planning from the registration system to sessions. Angelo also lists through the coming PodCamps happening over the next 3 months.

Next Meeting
Next Talkshoe meeting is Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 8 pm.

Talkshoe link: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/80720
Phone number: (724) 444-7444
Talkcast id: 80720

Feel free to subscribe to our feed and calendar for the latest updates.

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PodCamp Ohio Meetup 4 will be taking place with the New Media Cincinnati meetup on Saturday, March 15 from 4:30 – 6:30 PM at the Panera Bread (405 East Kemper Road, Springdale, OH 45246) by Tri-county mall (map). Thanks Daniel for helping us get this meetup coordinated.

For those driving from as far as Cleveland, the new Ohio Ikea‘s grand opening is that weekend. The new Ikea is within 2 exits of the Tri-county mall (Same exit as the Cincinnati Microcenter). That news may make it more worth while to make the 4 hour drive.

In this episode we talk about the registration system, the layout of the facility and how we will plan sessions. The last 15 minutes Scott and I talk about the Habari Blogging application that Scott is a co-developer of and then we talked shop about web servers and PHP.

Just a quick reminder, New Media Cincinnati is having their monthly meetup this coming Saturday, February 9 at 4:30 pm. The meetup is taking place at the Panara Bread (405 E Kemper Rd, Springdale, OH, 45246) by Tri-county Mall. map

Next Meeting
Next Talkshoe meeting is Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 9 pm. I’m pushing the meeting back 1 hour because I have a prior engagement earlier that evening.

Talkshoe link: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/80720
Phone number: (724) 444-7444
Talkcast id: 80720

Feel free to subscribe to our feed and calendar for the latest updates.

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We’re having a PodCamp Talkshoe meeting tonight at 8pm. Anyone planning to attend PodCamp Ohio is welcome to attend the weekly Talkshoe meetings.

Tonight’s agenda items:

• New Media Cincinnati Meetup this Saturday (see below)
• Accommodations for guests coming out of town
• Registration system
• Seeking out sponsors
• Pre/Post event planning
• Sessions and speakers
• Open discussion

Talkshoe link: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/80720
Phone number: (724) 444-7444
Talkcast id: 80720

New Media Cincinnati Meetup this Saturday!

New Media Cincinnati is having their monthly meetup this coming Saturday, February 9 at 4:30 pm. The meetup is taking place at the Panara Bread (405 E Kemper Rd, Springdale, OH, 45246) by Tri-county Mall. map