It was quite a great experience to participate in Podcamp City Online in July 2007.
While I have been part of and presented in virtual conferences before, this was truly a different "flavor" of an undertaking as it was a much more wide-open community for people to attend with no registration fee. At the same time the sessions were of good quality and the conference organizers did a great job of coordinating the schedule, and the technology.
Podcamp City Online broke down the customary face to face barriers of travel and space by being held online, but it also overcame issues of equity and access. With free registration, an opportunity for anyone to submit the presentation topics and sessions, AND online synchronous technologies that are very user friendly, this effort continuous to bring virtual learning opportunities virtual communities to more people.
Thank you especially Bruce and Ava for your tremendous efforts in making this happen,
For a terrific article about the event, read on as I have posted Bruce's blog post below, and better YET, visit the home site to see the full scope of the event.
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Podcamp City Online was a HUGE success!
July 31st, 2007 by Bruce C
I
have to say that the first online podcamp was a huge success and I am
glad to have been a co-organizer of it. Co-Organizer Ava from AvaHosting.Biz and I worked very hard the week before training speakers, setting up the room, and implementing our final marketing strategies.
We had over 100 people come into the room the entire day with the room peaking at 40 people in the afternoon.
We had over 11 speakers including myself on topics from Dr. Kathleen P. King's Podcasting on a Budget for Everyone to John Ciampa's
Web 2.0 & A Look At How To Be Successful By using Emerging Trends
to Create Wealth Online All While Loving What You Do to Ralph Mucci's How to get noticed with your Podcast to Radio DJ Lisa Tolliver's The Power of Podcasting. The last speaker Fred G.Castaneda, had the most powerful session of all titled How to Avoid Burnout & Prevent Podfading.
My two sessions were How To Upgrade Your Podcast to a Podcast Network and The Power of the RSS Feed and using it to get more subscribers.
The evening ended with the traditional live entertainment that most
podcamps have. Yes, you may have guessed it from the above photo of me
that I jammed out on the tenor saxophone to the remaining crowd at 9:50
PM. I played brand new jazz fusion that I wrote and recorded at 5:00 AM
that day. I just thought we should have live entertainment as well even
as an online podcamp.
We would like to thank all of the great podcasters and bloggers for
coming to Podcamp City Online as well as the speakers. You all made it
a very fun and memorable day.
Sincerely,
Bruce C
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Well done, great blog and great posts!!!