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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We’re almost at 100 registered guests for PodCamp Ohio and we still have over 2 months of registration before the event! As an incentive, I (Angelo) will buy one of the first 100 registered guests a FREE PodCamp Ohio T-shirt. We will randomly pick from the first 100 registered guests, excluding organizers of course.

We may be giving away more T-shirts and other prizes as the event gets closer. so if you’re planning on coming, get yourself registered!

In this episode we discuss sessions, the New Media Cincinnati meetup, the Columbus Social Media Cafe meetup, and we scheduled the remaining 3 PodCamp Ohio meetups. The next Podcamp Ohio meetup will be at the Coyahoga Falls Panara Bread on Sunday, April 13 from 11 am to 1 pm. We also discuss Friday night entertainment and discuss COMFest, which will be going on during the weekend of PodCamp Ohio.

We’re now accepting sessions, if you would like to host a session, please go to the sessions page and register your session as soon as possible.

The next PodCamp meeting is scheduled for today, Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 8 pm.

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

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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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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.

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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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 we talk about the registration system, business cards, our budget, attracting session speakers and pre/post event planning. We went on a tangent and talked about wedding planning. Near the end of the show we came up with the idea of twittering each registration to the podcampohio twitter.

Next Meeting
Next Talkshoe meeting is tomorrow, Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 8pm.

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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The third PodCamp Ohio meetup is scheduled for 11 AM today at the Hilliard Panara Bread near ITT Technical Institute. Google Map.

We’ll have PodCamp Ohio promotional business cards to hand out as well as talk about session planning, registration system and seeking out sponsorships.

As usual, we’ll be talking about other topics related to podcasting, new media, blogging and social networking. See everyone in 11 hours!

In this episode we talk about everything from audio/video promos to the registration. Stickers have been ordered! We will be ordering inexpensive business cards as well in order to help promote the event. Podcasters from Cincinnati were well represented in this episode as well.

This is a pretty exciting episode!

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