There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace. –Woodrow Wilson Don’t be too quick to dismiss this post on the grounds that it relates to the children’s book industry. While the children’s book industry is not typically viewed as a beacon of things [...]
So, remember how I blogged, yesterday, about the 98-person waiting list for a podcast meetup group in Portland, Oregon? Funny story. I thought it was odd that everyone on the waiting list had joined on the same day, September 24, 2008; the day before I became aware of the list. Odd? Yes. Though not odd [...]
How could I say, after all of the amazing PodCamps I’ve been to, including the original PodCamp in Boston, that PodCamp Montreal is my favourite so far? To me, PodCamp Montreal represents the best of what’s been done and the potential for what lies ahead. It incorporated bilingual tracks and managed a fully-bilingual-easy-to-read-and-easy-to-use web site. [...]
I’m in Portland to meet with a client and deliver a presentation at a conference this weekend. When I woke up this morning, I discovered and email from Andrea pointing out that there are 98 people on the Portland Podcasting waiting list. So, I created the Portland Podcasting and New Media group on meetup.com this [...]
The University of British Columbia School of Journalism has launched a fantastic resource call NetPrimeMinister which tracks and categorizes (by party leader) the digital conversation on blogs, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Digg about the current Canadian federal election — our third in four years. As good as the site is, it misses the mark on [...]
Thanks to the folks at Marketing over Coffee for introducing me to this great video (from the Cannes Film Festival) that shows that public relations is how your audience relates to you.
I’m one of three speakers (the others being Michelle Sullivan and Sylvain Carle) kicking off the PodCamp Montreal program at 9:00am on Saturday, September 20. My session is called Interlocking Stones : Decisions, Techniques and Styles to turn daily downloads from 20 to 2000 and I’ve described it as follows: Producing and promoting a podcast [...]
