06.28.08

We’re having a post PodCamp brunch today at 10am at the Panera Bread (3625 Fishinger Blvd, Hilliard, OH 43026) by ITT (map) Technical Institute. We have extra chocolate candy buckeyes to give away, so if you like chocolate and peanut butter, you’ll want to come to this brunch.

This will be the last meetup before PodCamp Ohio! Meetup 7 will take place on Saturday, June 21 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 organizers and volunteers to check out the facilities. Organizers and Volunteers are strongly recommended to come to the meetup to go over event plans and duties.

We have a print sample of the event guide created by Gabe from GodsMac.com as well as some of the event swag to demo during tomorrows meetup. Please feel free to bring your cameras and/or recording equipment.

During meeting 24 (Held on May 22), we discussed plans for meeting volunteers the day before PodCamp. This is in addition to the last meetup on Saturday, June 21. We also discussed how we will organize volunteers for the day of the event. We decided to plan on having lunch at Damon’s next door to ITT. We’ve confirmed with Damon’s, they are ok with our music guest playing on the Damon’s patio. We also decided to keep the intro session to 20 minutes that way the event is focused on the sessions. Dave and Busters will only have 100 coupons for us to distribute to PodCamp attendees. If that remains, we will plan on giving out the Dave and Busters coupons at the end of the event.

We also talked about the current results of the sessions survey. As of current, the survey has ‘Strategies for blogging, podcasting and social network marketing’, ‘What NOT To Do. Podcasting and other Social Media Anti-Tips’ and the ‘podcasting 101′ sessions have over 40% interest. We may plan on holding these sessions in the larger rooms. If you would like to help us better plan the sessions, please take a moment and fill out our Sessions Survey.

Last part of the meeting we discussed the past weekends meetup on May 17. Following the meetup we visited ITT and did some video recording of the facilities then hate lunch at the Damon’s next door.

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Here are the first two videos from the Podcamp meetup in Columbus a couple weeks ago. In the first, you can see a bit of our Panera time and then little tidbits of our wanderings through ITT Tech. The second reveals that no one at ITT Tech likes podcasting and we epic fail at interviewing.

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.

I would like to encourage bloggers and podcasters following PodCamp Ohio who are from the Central Ohio area to come to the Columbus Social Media Cafe Meetup scheduled for tomorrow, April 29, 2008. The group aims to explore how Social Media can be used to make life better and more interesting in the Columbus area. It will also give local fellow bloggers and podcasters the opportunity to network and exchange thoughts and ideas.

Tomorrows meetup will be taking place at the OCLC in Dublin from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM. (map)

OCLC – Kilgour Building
6565 Frantz Road
Dublin, OH 43017

For more information, please visit the web site, socialmediacafe.wordpress.com.

Short meeting, we discussed last weekends meetup in Akron, audio recording equipment, review the current set of sessions, volunteers, directory guide, ordering event t-shirts, blue t-shirt for event volunteers and wireless Internet access.

During this meeting we devised a Count Down to 100 Attendees Free T-Shirt contest. Once we reach 100 (happened this past weekend) we will randomly pick one of the first 100 registered guests a free T-shirt.

Joe will be managing session tasks during the event, such as assisting volunteers with helping session speakers find their rooms and setup. Brandice will be managing registration during the event, such as assisting volunteers with getting guests signed in and distributing the event swag bags/t-shirts.

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