06.28.08

In this episode we quickly go over meeting objectives, mainly listing the statuses of everything such as viral marketing, the press release, planning time frames for sessions and lunch time entertainment. Following the planning update, Eric and Angelo talk about podcasting, social sites, web site tools and social networking web sites.

The next PodCamp meeting is scheduled Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 8 pm.

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

PodCamp Meetup 4 in Cincinnati this weekend!

The PodCamp Ohio meetup 4 will be held with the New Media Cincinnati meetup this March in Cincinnati. The meetup will be held on Saturday, March 15 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 Thanks Daniel for helping us get this meetup coordinated.

Please RSVP by leaving a comment on Daniel’s post announcing the New Media Cincinnati March Meetup.

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

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Hey, Podcamp goers! Are you already psyched for the big June event and busting at the seams to help other get people on board as well? Me too.

One way that every one of you can help the Podcamp crew to spread the word about Podcamp Ohio is through passing out the oodles of business cards and stickers that we already have for the event. We need man(and woman)power to spread all these goodies throughout the universe, so I am initiating a challenge to all of you:

PODCAMP OHIO VIRAL PHOTO CONTEST

If you need stickers and business cards, email Angelo or myself (I have a bazillion) and we’ll get you stocked up so that you can head out into your local community and start spreading the word. At each location, get a picture of the placed cards and stickers, and the person with the most individual locations photographed will get some major kudos points and maybe even a viral marketing prize at Podcamp Ohio.

Ways to get it done (and make it fun):

1. Go with a friend.
Grabbing a partner makes the whole process feel like it’s taking half the time. More power in numbers, more fun in numbers, and you’ll have an extra person who can take photos of you actually posting the Podcamp goodies so that the photos will be more fun as well. Splitting up might cover a bigger area, but it’s not nearly as much fun, and it will end up feeling more like work.

2. Make it a roadtrip.
Make a map of the area you want to cover in one day and pick the most logical route. Doing this in one day on a weekend with a map and a new cup of coffee at each stop will leave you feeling exhilarated by the end of the day, especially if you’ve spent the whole day driving around with another person who’s as excited about Podcamp as you are.

3. Make videos as well.
The challenge is for photos, but videos are a ton of fun too, so if you have video-recording capabilities, take some video footage of your adventures, and throw them up in our Viddler group.

4. Put the photos up on Flickr.
We have a Podcamp Ohio Flickr pool that is sadly empty at the time of this blog posting, and adding all the photos of your marketing adventures will change that. Plus, seeing everyone else’s photos may give you good ideas about new places that you could be putting more of those cards and stickers.

5. Talk smack and blog about it.

Blog some smack talk along with photos of where you’ve been already. Nothing will invigorate a competition like some good old fashioned smack talk, and I am likely to give extra points for really good smack.
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Now, what are you waiting for? Get ahold of Angelo or myself (brandice[at]podcampohio[dot]com) to get the goods if you don’t already have some (printing out your own fliers with Podcamp Ohio logos on them is totally fine too), and then hit the road and start putting those cameras to good use!

DEADLINE: MAY 15th

In this episode we talk about promos, entertainment, evening before plans, viral marketing update and a number of other various details. We also went over some of the tasks we recently accomplished such as the registration system, blocking off rooms at the area hotels and post event plans at Dave and Busters.

Next Meeting
Next Talkshoe meeting is Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 8 pm.

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

Meetup 4, Saturday, March 15 in Cincinnati

The PodCamp Ohio meetup 4 will be held with the New Media Cincinnati meetup this March in Cincinnati. The meetup will be held on Saturday, March 15 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

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

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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).

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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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