I have a few posts that I’m working on as part of my reflections on and wrap-up of PAB. I’ve been slower to get them together than I had hoped.

In the meantime, I found this fantastic group photo taken with Jim Milles’ camera (Bruce Murray may have been the photographer). I love this picture. I love that it showcases one of the great qualities of PAB2007… that it’s big enough to be a conference and small enough to result in a great family photo. The picture says so much more than I can articulate, so I’ll just quietly admire it for a while and remember the great event made possible by everyone in the picture, and a few people that aren’t in it.

See you next year!

One challenge that many of the PodCamps have been faced with is session concurrence and the inability of the community to organize sessions into logical tracks (note many, not all, PodCamps!). This means that if you attend a PodCamp, chances are good that being part of one session means missing another — or several others — that you want to attend at the same time. Thankfully, all of the PodCamp Toronto sessions were videotaped and are available in the media archive of that event.

I have been slowly working through the archive and this past weekend found a nugget of gold. During his session with Connie Crosbie on What To Podcast, Jim Milles said “If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly” — which is very different from what my father told me when I was growing up. What a perfect way to frame that the only true barrier to becoming a podcaster is one’s own conscious mind.

There are many reasons why people start their own podcast(s) and just as many reasons why people delay or refuse to do their own podcast(s). Don’t let fear of “doing badly” be one of them. Every podcaster I know (myself included) cringes at the thought of listening to their first five episodes — possibly more.

In everything, we have to do something “badly” to do something else well.

Photo: rhyndman