The Ottawa Podcast and New Media Meetup Group held it’s second meeting of this season at the Clock Tower Brew Pub on Thursday, October 18.

There were a lot of newcomers at this gathering and one of them, Natasha, won a $25 gift certificate from Steve’s Music Store in Ottawa.

The guest speaker was Jeff Parks. Besides his many projects and podcasts (see links below), Jeff was one of the three founders of the Ottawa Podcast and New Media Meetup Group.

This episode of the Sound Connections podcast features the entire presentation by Jeff and the engaging discussion that followed. Key points that Jeff raised during his talk include:

• Pay it forward depends on community
• Don’t think in terms of making money
• Think in terms of advancing the medium and helping others
• Google development rule #9: Users, not money
• Share knowledge, help and the money will follow
• Mentoring can be educational for all involved

Relevant links and resources:

• The Daily Source Code (podcast)
  
• The Pay it Forward Foundation
• Pay it Forward the movie (excerpt included)
• Canadian Podcast Buffet (podcast)
  
• Podcasters Across Borders (conference)
• PodCamp
• Talkshoe Network
• This American Life (podcast)
• Ira Glass YouTube interviews
• Tod Maffin’s From Idea to Air electronic book

Jeff’s podcasts can be found at the following URLs:

• I.A. Podcast
• CapCHI Podcast
• Boxes and Arrows

 

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When: Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 7:00 PM

Where: Clock Tower Brew Pub
575 Bank Street
Ottawa, ON K1S5L7

Guest speaker: Jeff Parks

Presentation: Pay It Forward - Mentoring and Podcasting

Jeff will discuss his philosophy on mentoring and podcasting, and how this approach can be a model of behaviour for business and government around the concept of “community”.

Jeff Parks is an Information Architect who has been Podcasting about IA, User Experience, and Human Factors for nearly two years. In November he will be starting a new role with the Market Research and User Experience Firm, Phase-5 as the Vice President of User Experience.

Jeff’s podcasts can be found at the following URLs:

• I.A. Podcast
• CapCHI Podcast
• Boxes and Arrows

Click here for more information or to RSVP

One day before PAB2007 was to kick off, Jeff Parks fell ill. Bob and I decided that I would take the vacancy and pull together a replacement presentation. In my session, I challenged the community to engage their audience with atmosphere and ambience in their audio recordings and productions; to take risks and think beyond quiet studios, converted clothes cupboards and stale boardrooms.  Take your listeners with you — wherever you go — when you record your programs.

You can hear my session at the Canadian Podcast Buffet. A transcript of the session will accompany the podcast in the next week or so.

On May 9, Ajay tagged me in a post he did about seven songs he’s into right now — or, at the time anyway. Here is my long overdue list:

• Soldier Machismo - Fiction Plane
• Waste Our Time - The Between
• Pump It Up - Elvis Costello
• Love Slip Up On Ya - The Funky Meters
• The Road Not Taken - Bruce Hornsby
• Walking In Your Footsteps (live 2007) - The Police
• Can You Picture That - The Muppets

I wonder what Bob Goyetche, Jeff Parks, Terry Fallis and David Jones, Chris Brogan and Sage Tyrtle are listening to.