The Dual Mandate of PodCamp
PodCamp NYC was yet another fantastic success in the ever growing lineups of PodCamps around the world, and I’m very pleased to have been a part of it. I wanted to take a moment as co-founder and Executive Director of the PodCamp Foundation to very clearly lay out what the vision [...]

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What I’ll Be Sharing at PodCamp NYC
A few people have wondered what I’ll be sharing at PodCamp NYC. I’ve got two sessions blocked out, plus possibly a panel - we’ll see about the last part.
Session 1:
Intro to Podcasting: The Podcasting 101 session. 10 AM Friday, Hall of Fame Wunsch Center. How to listen, participate, and [...]

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Funny - here at work at the Student Loan Network, I just had a meeting with our marketing director about a press release. The topic of the press release was to emphasize how we’re still open for business despite all the credit market turmoil, how not everyone is going out of business, etc. What was [...]

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I got this email just today from Marriott about my stay in Washington, DC.

To the Marriott folks:
Look, no offense, but I’m not going to take your survey. You’ve already got my money, and now you want my time in return for nothing at all. Come on, offer me something, even just something token, to acknowledge [...]

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PodCamp DC was a fantastic event held on April 19, 2008 at the Art Institute of Washington. A huge hat tip to AIW for offering the venue and helping out with logistics. Hats off as well to organizers Tammy Munson, Joel Witt, and Ernie Ambrose.
Not much to say right now, save that it was an [...]

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I had an epiphany of sorts in the shower.
What a lot of new media folks talk about - audience building, impressions, and the dreaded M word, monetization - is not marketing.
Marketing is the sharing of ideas.
So what is all the stuff we in new media talk about? Sales. Whether it’s pay per click ads, podcast [...]

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Yes, someone gave a seminar on how to avoid hiring qualified workers.
There’s a twist to this story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU

Watch the video in its entirety.
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One of the best comments in the free/not-free discussion I’ve ever read was by Laura Fitton (@pistachio on Twitter) on CC Chapman’s blog last October. Reprinted from the source:
The event isn’t, and from what little I understand, never was FREE. In a way, no event ever is. It is subsidized by sponsors and by volunteer [...]

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PodCamp Boston 3 is asking all participants to be sponsors this year, to take the ultimate step up and co-sponsor the UnConference. After lengthy debate last year with Chris Brogan, PodCamp Boston 3 would become a co-sponsored event for two primary reasons:

Last year, we planned for 1,000 participants based on registration of nearly 1,500. Instead, [...]

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April 15 is the deadline for filing a federal tax return. But not everybody can meet that deadline. If you need more time to get your paperwork in, make sure you file a Form 4868, Automatic Extension of Time to File, with the IRS by the April 15 deadline and you’ll get an automatic six-month [...]

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