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 […]

Today through Thursday, I’m in San Francisco to attend ad:tech, one of a series of conventions focused on advertising and digital marketing. I will be covering the event for Podcasting News, trying to get a sense of what’s happening in downloadable media from the sponsor and advertiser’s point of view. I’m also here to make […]

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 […]

The schedule for the fourth annual New Media Expo has been announced by event organizer Tim Bourquin. Formerly known as the Podcast and New Media Expo, and/or the Portable Media Expo, this year’s updated and expanded event sports a new name, and has moved from California to Las Vegas. The New Media Expo, which runs […]

Organizers have announced dates for PodCamp Arizona, being held November 1-2, 2008 at the University of Advanced Technology. PodCamps are free events focusing on podcasting and new media that are organized and presented by attendees. Not a lot of details have been announced yet, but you can get involved at the site.

Podcasters Across Borders, a Canadian podcasting unconference, has announced its schedule for the 2008 event, being held June 20-22 in Kingston, Ontario: Friday, June 20, 2008 1:00pm Video production workshop (Bob Goyetche and Mark Blevis) 2:00pm Social (Media) Science (Dave Brodbeck) 3:00pm Community: Why It���s the ONLY thing that matters (Whitney Hoffman) 7:30pm PAB2008 Kick-off […]

If you’re going to the NAB Show, you may want to check out the schedule for their Podcasting Summit. The Summit offers a 1-day boot camp, plus two days of additional training covering everything from planning to production through encoding, distribution and legal issues.

Sessions from last fall’s Podcast and New Media Expo (PNME) continue to be released via Gigavox Media’s Podcast Academy site. The latest session is of interest to any podcaster who wants or needs to include music in their episodes. “Music Licensing for Podcasts and New Media” covers a lot of ground in under an hour. […]

Podcaster and author Leesa Barnes is organizing a virtual Social Media Telesummit, with sessions taking place February 20 – 29. Dozens of talks are being presented throughout the Summit, by such podcasting and new media figures as Paul Colligan, The Engaging Brand’s Anna Farmery from the UK, Australian government science video podcaster Kylie Johnson, and […]

Ed Roberts (photo, right), KC Weather Podcast, and music podcast, Looking Out The Window, led a PodCamp Midwest session called “Join the Conversation: (Ed Roberts is not the guy who invented the Altair computer, nor the guy who founded the disability movement and caused wheelchair-accessible parking spaces to be made availalbe) The New Media Triangle […]