Myles Braithwaite

PodCamp Toronto 2011

Sunday, 27 February 2011 at 10:55 AM

(by Myles Braithwaite)

I attended PodCamp Toronto 2011 this weekend here are some of the notes I took during the conference.

Podcasting to A Professional I.T. Audience

  • Saturday 9:45am

  • Tom Cagley http://spamcast.net/

  • Interaction doesn’t happen often.
  • Most of the audience can’t listen to the podcast due to company policy and lack of sound cards.
  • Agreement: Promptness, Empathy, Competence, TODO
  • English speakers
  • Strategy view vs execution.
  • Twice as many name expertise than any other industry
  • Awareness, Attention, and Action.
  • Content is King.
  • Interviewing people that are willing to promote themselves.
  • A little bit more motivated.
  • Cross Promote is completion.
  • Almost everyone will talk to you.
  • Learn how to interview
  • Do research on the interviewees.
  • Shutup and listen.
  • Provide a list of seed questions.
  • TODO take a look at Ira Glass YouTube videos on Story Telling.
  • Professional
  • It okay to cut out bad parts of the interview.

Crowdsourcing Tech and Social Good & Crisis Response

  • Saturday 10:30am

  • Social Media on Red Bull
  • Developing some applications
  • Help NGOs
  • Host camps (Random Hacks of Kindness)
  • Collaborate knowledge
  • A lot of mapping
  • No communication between the cities.
  • http://eq.org.nz

How to Get a Job Creating Web Content

  • Saturday 11:30am

  • Have to be patience and have to be determined.
  • TODO Take a look at the MESH Conference.
  • Milkman Unlimited (Job listing for Radio)

Step One

  • Create a custom portfolio.
  • Throw up a website just to show it off.
  • If sending Email: Don’t attach your resume send a link.
  • Mailing is the best option.

Step Two - Portfolio in RL

  • Create something that stands out.
  • Less likely to throw in the trash.
  • DVD resume kind of funny.

Step Three - The Clincher

  • It will clinch the job if you are close to getting it
  • Can be a website, video, or audio
  • If going for second interview send before you leave
  • If you haven’t bread in a week, send then

No None-sense Ways Social Media Can be Used in Your Business

  • Saturday 1:45pm

  • Mark Graham

  • Dealing with things heads on are a way to stop bad press on Social Networks.
  • TODO Research how much it takes to destroy a hard drive with a magnet.
  • I really should not have gone to this session.

Video Games Journalism: How to and Beyond!

  • Saturday 2:45pm

  • Perceived Value: First step is to know your shit.
  • Do what you want to do with it.
  • Constancy.
  • Video you really need to know your stuff. People are highly critical on YouTube and Blip.tv.
  • Just be nice and call up PR agency asking for demos.
  • Choices what you want to do.
  • Informed
  • N4G.com
  • Journalist hunts for stuff.
  • A review is kind of like a journalist but is more specific.
  • Commentator knows the industry.
  • Find a mentor.
  • It’s not that hard to get into the industry.
  • Local newspapers.
  • Follow the PR lists.
  • Send your review back to the company.
  • Book: “Rough Guide to Video Games”.

Your Photoblog, Photojournalism, and The Future of Flickr.

  • Saturday 4:30pm

  • If you are more concerned about you blogging software than your photography then you are not going to become a better photographer.
  • TODO Lookup “Daily Does of Imagery” and “Finbarr O’Reily”,
  • Sometimes you have to stay in a fixed location to get a good picture.
  • “‘Writing’ is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.” – Lawrence Lessing
  • Put your best pictures on your own property (not on TwitPic, Facebook, or Flickr).