PodCampAZ 2010 was a great event with many people wanting to share their learning & experiences. Well worth the effort to travel to Phoenix from Albuquerque. Even though there were less people this year, I renewed many friendships from last year and made many new ones as well.
This year I had the great opportunity to “bask in the awesomeness” of the following speakers:
Chris Hewitt – Forget the Experts…
Derek Neighbors – New Media is a Connection Point not a End Point
Video Genius Panel – Izzy, Clintus, Dave, & Jacqui
Jeremy Vaught – Zero to Hero
Israel Hyman (Izzy) – How to make a living as a full time podcaster
WordPress SEO Genius Panel – Chuck, Charlene, & Sam
Kevin Kitteridge – Do It Live!
Some of the more important ideas that I walked away with were:
Digital interactions can not replace In Real Life interactions
A 3 product approach to developing a viable information product based business
A couple new WordPress/SEO plugins to take a look at
I also had the opportunity to jump in, on the last day, and present what I wanted to share with regard to Media & Time Shifted Learning in a Corporation. The presentation went well, very informal as usual with a couple tangents based on questions. I have re-recorded the content, I posted it in video format in case you happen to have missed the session or did not attend the conference. Just a reminder, these are my opinions and are not opinions of my employer.
Here is the link to the downloadable MP4 video file, it’s 22 minutes long and about 34 MB in size and can be played with the Apple QuickTime Player.
In summary, a great weekend, looking forward to what next year will bring.
Just a quick plug about PodCampAZ 2010 coming up here on November 20 & 21, a event I will be attending.
I attended PodCampAZ 2009 last year, really by chance. I had a weekend free and we were already visiting family in the Phoenix area for the Thanksgiving holidays.
Based on reading the website before the event, I figured I’d get a chance to see what the world of new media and social networking looked like since most of my career was spent in data-center technologies.
The event was free, so there was very little to loose other than time, energy, and being away from my kids for a couple days.
The 2 day un-confernece (this is explained on the website) was really amazing, the power of like-minded people coming together to share information and experiences was eye-opening. I attended presentations on WordPress, Videocasting, Podcasting, and Social Media software. I also met so many people who were experts in their respective areas.
There is value in the overall socialness of this event and its ability to bring people who want to share, PodCampAZ is a great place to experience & learn from the talent in the Phoenix area first hand.
I recently purchased a Epiphan VGA2USB LR to record presentation video from workshops where multiple people present during the day.
This device is a frame grabber, it takes the VGA input from the computer and makes images, in fact it makes so many images that one can record video at 30 frames per second depending on the resolution.
I have found this device very nice to use with Camtasia.
The particular things I like are:
No software needs to be installed on the presentation laptop (this is huge!)
The ability to record what is being presented including software demos and videos (most local sw can’t record wmv video)
The ability to record a computer without impacting the computer itself, from a performance point of view (local screen recording can be compute intensive)
Can record wireless audio on a separate laptop
Here is how the video part is connected, speaker audio can be input to the recording laptop (Computer in this picture) via USB or Mic input.
Here is a youtube video of recording using the VGA2USB LR and Camtasia:
It’s taken a fair amount of work lately, I finally made the time and energy investment to create my own fly fishing website.
One of the motivations for creating it was to capture my experiences as I went out and to share them with others (I’m mostly doing this so my kids have a record of something their father loved). This fly fishing website will be a little different, it will use different types of media like google maps with video & audio.
All future fly fishing posts will go there now.
Check it out at domflyfish.com and let me know what you think.
I traveled to Gaithersburg, MD on Southwest Airlines today for work this week and was pleasantly surprised to run into a great group of people on a special trip.
There were about 80 people in the group and almost all of them had served in World War II. The organization called Honor Flight Northern Arizona & Honor Flight Network is a non-profit that have been taking WWII veterans to Washington DC to see their own memorials. Southwest Airlines also supports this organization.
Here is a bit of video I shot on the plane showing the fun time they had in supporting those that help provide for our freedom.
Too bad my grandfather (who came back from what went on in Bataan) is not around to enjoy something like this.
Thank you veterans for all that you sacrificed for our freedom!
PodCampAZ 2010 was a great event with many people wanting to share their learning & experiences. Well worth the effort to travel to Phoenix from Albuquerque. Even though there were less people this year, I renewed many friendships from last year and made many new ones as well.
Here is a youtube video of recording using the VGA2USB LR and Camtasia:
