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Podcamp Boston 3 – Success! Thanks to you!

Posted by Chel in podcamp on 07 23rd, 2008 | Comments

This past weekend Podcamp Boston 3 rocked the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School. Thank all of you who attended, those who lent a helping hand, and those who taught others.  Thank you to our sponsors who believe in what we do enough to put forth the pledge to help us put on this conference, that includes each of the attendees.

Photos credit to C.C. Chapman.

I want to mention I had the privilege of working with the best team: Chris Penn, Chris Brogan, Sooz, Steve Sherlock, Doug Haslam and Whitney Hoffman.

Huge thanks to Andrew Jankowich for helping out at the reg desk Saturday.

We had an 80% attendance rate, much better than last year’s 50%. 370 people total attended.  Hopefully they learned a lot, met their goals of learning and sharing, and it will allow them to grow and DO in the next year.

Many times throughout the weekend, Chris Penn mentioned “do”.  Doing.  Achieving, reaching out and finding ways to make your real life community (no, not only your social media community) a better place. That maybe, by making your corner of the world a little better that will start something remarkable.  If I reach out to help my community and you reach out to help your community and others follow in our footsteps who knows what changes that will affect.  We’re seeing the beginning of that with Obama’s campaign.  We want change, question is are we each willing to do our part to make it happen.

We have the tools.  We have the power.

Did you meet your goals for learning?  What will you do in the next year to make a difference?

  • Well I had an amazing time, and some crazy adventures.. met a lot of cool people.. got to know people I had met before a little bit better, found job leads, had some really great conversations.. felt more a part of the community then ever before.. learned a bit.. it was just awesome...

    My take a ways were.. well kinda hard to articulate really. Some of it was like.. how we are all just really people.. something in the humanness of it.. There was something to seeing people new to this space.. trying to help them out a little.. and then on the other hand seeing people who are.. like way beyond me and being able to say "well what do you think focualt would say about the shifting power relationships in emerging channels" and have those kinda crazy conversations.. listen to people who have this stuff down to a science to give you some perspective of what is possible and.. I guess the biggest thing I took away was the inspiration to take things to the next level.. to say "yeah, getting my act together over here is really important."

    I think if you wanna save the world you gotta start with your self.. I don't mean that in some.. selfish-e sorta way... more that in just being a vehicle of light in the world is a pretty huge thing... and it's probably one of the more difficult things to achieve in this life.. I guess somewhere in the core of my interest in social media has been an idea of seeking out a mode of living that would facilitate that sorta thing... and I guess that's how I'm trying to do it..
  • I think this weekend that some people saw a bigger potential in making a difference. Not everyone did but those that did, I hope we'll learn more about their changes in the weeks ahead.

    Eric, I don't know about you but I've been reading everyone's reviews of Podcamp since I returned home and I'm seeing a lot of discussion about what people have learned. Not a lot about what they intend to do with it, but I hope that my blog post will remind them that is part of the theme and hopefully the takeaway this year.

    I had an interesting conversation about how to make the world better by using our networks together to spread ideas via social networking. I know that using social networking has made a difference in some lives, but I do not believe it's going to affect the change on the world that it so desperately needs. We've had this conversation.

    David-
    I'm confused, you say the focus was learning, yet, you didn't go there to learn. Podcamp Boston 3 grew up this year. It isn't about the parties and the "Jeff Pulver" influence (and I missed Jeff's presence), Podcamp Boston 3 isn't geek spring break.

    Things are changing, social media/podcasting/etc has to change to grow. In my opinion that includes making a difference in a tangible way in your community using the tools that exist.
  • We shared how to install, use, and manage Google Analytics, Website Optimizer and direct email marketing. I learned how to time marketing by combining Trends, AdWords, and a few other sources.

    I plan on taking the lessons learned and boosting bottom line profits at my employer by 5%.
  • tibbon
    I don't think I went there with learning in mind to be honest. Or at least I didn't think of it that way. I was thinking of sharing, networking and to a large degree having a good time. Maybe that's unprofessional of me. Then again, I don't work in "social media" per se.

    I had a great time, but kinda missed the vibe of manic intensity and vibrancy of PCB2. No scheduled musicians in the hallways, less random camera crews, less huge after parties, no Jeff Pulver influence. It was great and well executed. I'm glad I went and wouldn't trade it for the world. Podcamp Boston 2 was a major turning point in my life in a very serious way, this was just another high point however.

    The focus of this year was learning, and they did a very good job of that. It was almost too professional however. Then again that's just my opinion and potentially tainted still from the literal insanity off the wall nature of ROFLCon, that anything else could potentially seem drab in comparison to.
  • What did everyone 'do' there? What came out of it that isn't about networking, hallways, qik, seesmic, twitter or friendfeed. What lessons, key ideas and takeways happened? Is anyone out there able to answer that?
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