06.28.08

PodCamp Ohio is proud to receive a bronze sponsorship from Xearn

Xearn enables users to create, manage and share mock stock portfolios. Test your investment strategies, see how your portfolio management skills compares with other users and follow successful investors on xearn.com.

PodCamp Ohio is proud to be sponsored by Habari, an open source blogging platform.

Habari is a next-generation blogging platform coded with a firm understanding of the current state of blogging. Most other blogging packages have been around long enough that their solutions for features like comment spam and other plug-in functionality result in cumbersome and inefficient patches and plug-ins. Habari is being developed from scratch to take into consideration all of the functionality possible in a modern blogging platform.

Please visit the Habari wiki for more details on what makes Habari different from other blogging platforms.

Startup Weekend is coming to Columbus July 18-20. If you’re a developer, designer, lawyer, project manager or have other background with starting a business, please check out Rocky VanBrimmer’s post on Startup Weekend Columbus for more details.

Startup Weekend is not affiliated with PodCamp Ohio. We’ve added this announcement since it may be relevant to PodCamp attendees.

During meeting 23 we discussed evening before plans, list some restaurants close to PodCamp, post podcamp plans (going over to Dave and Busters), ComFest, sponsors update, podcasting 101 session, the sessions survey, Doctor Anonymous pre-PodCamp on-line party, this Saturdays meetup at the Panera Bread by ITT and contacting Ohio chocolate companies to see if we can get chocolate buckeyes to include in our event bags. Close to the end of the meeting Gabe sent the Google Group a preview of the Event Guide cover (pictured).

This week we received sponsorships from PodCamp NYC Sponsors, Viddler and John Atkinson from PimpMyNews.com. We will be making blog posts thanking these sponsors over the coming week.

Meetup 6 Tomorrow (Saturday, May 17)

This will be the second last meetup before PodCamp Ohio! Meetup 6 will take place on Saturday, May 17 from 11:00 am – 1:00 PM at the Hilliard Panara Bread (3625 Fishinger Blvd, Hilliard, OH 43026) close to ITT Technical Institute (map). Immediately following, we will visit ITT for event organizers and volunteers to check out the facilities.

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We are having a Talkshoe meeting tomorrow, Thursday, May 15th at 8pm.

Agenda items:

• Friday night before event plans
• Saturday night after plans
• ComFest
• Sponsors Update
• What ever else comes up

Call in information:

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

PodCamp Meetup 6 This Saturday!

This will be the second last meetup before PodCamp! Meetup 6 will take place on Saturday, May 17 from 11:00 am – 1:00 PM at the Hilliard Panara Bread (3625 Fishinger Blvd, Hilliard, OH 43026) close to ITT Technical Institute (map). Immediately following, we will visit ITT for event organizers and volunteers to check out the facilities.

PodCamp Ohio is proud to be sponsored by Ohio’s own Doctor Anonymous!

Doctor Anonymous was one of the first contributers to the event and has been following the meetings and planning since the beginning. His Gold sponsorship and support for PodCamp Ohio is greatly appreciated. Thank you Doctor Anonymous!

On Thursday, June 26 (2 days before PodCamp) Doctor Anonymous will be hosting an on-line PodCamp meeting/party on his podcast.

Please check out the Doctor Anonymous Podcast every Thursday evening at 9pm on BlogTalkRadio.

We have more sponsorship announcements coming shortly. Please visit the sponsors page for the latest list of PodCamp Ohio sponsors.

The Ohio Web Leaders (OhioWebLeaders.com) is hosting an Internet Marketing Conference here in Columbus Ohio this coming Monday, May 19th in Lewis Center, Ohio (just north of Columbus).

The conference will focus on integrating online and traditional marketing campaigns to generate more sales, leads and awareness online through corporate websites. The conference costs $199 to attend.

More details about the conference are available on the Ohio Web Leaders web site (OhioWebLeaders.com).

The Internet Marketing Conference is not affiliated with PodCamp Ohio. We’ve added this announcement since it may be relevant to some PodCamp attendees.

During meeting 22 we discussed the timing of the session sets, door prize contest ideas, discuss the venue location (pictures here), update with getting started podcasting guide, talk about our next press release, how we explain why PodCamp Ohio is important to those who don’t understand what it is, sponsor update and session survey. We continued to discussed the need to relate PodCamp to the web applications/tools/social networks that we will be discussing at PodCamp. We ended the meeting talking about equipment at PodCamp Ohio, Dr. Anonymous in Vegas and prizes to give out the day of the event.

Current plan for Session Times:

• 9-9:40 am – Opening Session
• 9:50-10:50 – Session Set 1 (5 concurrent sessions)
• 11:00-12:00 pm – Session 2 (5 concurrent sessions)
• Lunch and Music
• 1:30-2:30 – Session Set 3 (5-7 concurrent sessions)
• 3:40-3:40 – Session Set 4 (5-7 concurrent sessions)
• 3:50-4:50 – Session Set 5 (5-7 concurrent sessions)
• 5:00 – 5:30 – Closing Session

Door Prize ideas:

• Furthest traveled podcaster/blogger
• Youngest podcaster/blogger
• Toy Master / Gadget Belt – attendee with the most gadget gear

PodCamp Ohio Identity
We’re discussing how to best describe PodCamp for those who don’t understand what the event is about. If you’re interested in joining the conversation, please join the Google Group, http://groups.google.com/group/podcampohio.

Session Survey

Please help us decide which sessions will have the most demand by filling out the session survey.

Pre-PodCamp party
We will have a Pre-Podcamp Ohio meetup/party on Doctor Anonymous’s Podcast Thursday night (June 26, 2008) before PodCamp Ohio.

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Another killer job from Jason with the Podcamp Ohio logo in these two fun promo images… That road to Podcamp Ohio is getting shorter and shorter!! We can’t wait to see you all there.

Jason threw up a picture recently in the Flickr group of his iPod beautifully reflecting some Podcamp Ohio gear. Where’s YOURS?