PodCamp Philly, the second annual “unconference” style podcasting event, will be held Sept 6-7. PodCamp Philly topics will include blogging, podcasting, video-blogs, videos and social networking. Also, this year PodCamp Philly has teamed with SearchCamp Philly, a new unconference focused on helping small and medium sized businesses market themselves online. PodCamp Philly/SearchCamp Philly Details: Dates: […]

PodCamp Boston is coming up this weekend, July 19-20, 2008.

Unlike previous PodCamps, walk-in registrations cannot be accepted (building security needs a list of attendees). The deadline for registering for this weekend’s PodCamp Boston is noon (ET) Wednesday, July 16.

In advance of the upcoming conference, PodCamp co-founder and organizer Christopher Penn (creator and host of the Financial Aid Podcast) took some time out to answer questions about the event.

Podcamp co-founder Chris Penn told a couple of stories at Podcasters Across Borders 2008 that demonstrate how podcasting is changing the world. Penn’s talk serves as a great reminder that there’s more to podcasting than making money.

Social media guru Chris Penn has published a free eBook, the 8 Step Guide To Podcast Marketing Basics. Penn is the creator of the Financial Aid Podcast, co-founder of PodCamp unconferences, and co-host of the Marketing Over Coffee marketing podcast. “This is a super-short eBook (13 pages total) that asks 8 questions of you in […]

The latest in the series of participant-organized, Open Space “unconferences,” PodCamp Seattle debuts today (June 21, 2008) at the University of Washington Communications Building. Colleague, friend, and Edelman Digital social media expert Eric Weaver is one of the event’s organizers. He says that the focus of the Seattle PodCamp will diverge somewhat from previous PodCamps […]

Podcast creators, podsafe musicians, and friends and families of new media mavens will be gathering this weekend at the third annual Podcasters Across Borders conference in Kingston, Ontario. Participants and presenters are coming from Canada, the United States, and from as far away as Argentina. The conference is organized by members of the Rogic Podcast […]

PodCamps are a great opportunity to learn about podcasting and meet people involved in new media. The events are user-organized conferences for “new media enthusiasts and professionals including bloggers, podcasters, YouTubers, social networkers, and anyone curious about new media.” The first PodCamp was held September 8-10, 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts, but they are now being […]

I recently had a (way too brief) conversation with PodCamp NYC 2.0 co-organizer John C. Havens, VP of Business Development at Blog Talk Radio and fellow Advisory Board member of the Association of Downloadable Media. (He’s on the right in the photo, with Chris MacDonald.) John wanted to talk about this PodCamp’s wider appeal to […]

Podcamp NYC is coming up this weekend, April 25-26, at Brooklyn Polytechnic. Podcamp NYC is an unconference focused on educating participants on how to use, implement and share all kinds of new media tools including, podcasts, videocasts, blogs, Second Life, Facebook, and YouTube. The conference is free to attend, but you must register in advance. […]

PodCamp South Africa – a free podcasting unconference – will be held this weekend. Here are the details: Date Saturday, 19 April 2008 Time 09:00 to 17:00. Venue Orangia Bowling Club, 8 At Horak Avenue, Bloemfontein Cost FREE, verniet, niks, mahala! What to bring Your laptop, video cameras, digital cameras, audio gear or anything else […]