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… Podcampperth07 are being re-rolled into audio Pod­cast form, thanks to the powers of Uncle Mike

And more from Stew­art Greenhill

The Perth posse have it down. They know how to organ­ise com­munity meetups, get the people along and exchange information.

Some months ago, the Perth con­tin­gent cared enough about hav­ing Pod­camp in their city, they out­voted other lar­ger cit­ies. And the res­ult was another well run, well atten­ded and though pro­vok­ing event.

Apart from the per­sonal name brands such as Cameron Reilly, Stilgher­rian, Duncan Riley, Leslie Nas­sar, Bron­wen Clune, Richard Giles, Myles Eftos, Gary Barber, Nick Cowie… the con­ver­sa­tions and dis­cus­sions made me think.

• What is a brand?
• Sep­ar­at­ing brand from name
• Being crit­ical of your employer: is it OK.
• Transparency/honesty
• Geeks hav­ing a respons­ib­il­ity to use tech­no­logy for good

Attend­ing con­fer­ences is import­ant. It’s the talk­ing within, before and after the events where you get to know your peers in this industry. Pass on advice and listen to hon­est feed­back. Ques­tion them and be ques­tioned. Rethink your strategy. Move with the industry.

It seems that pod­cast­ing is now the term that is used for both audio and video cast­ing over the inter­net. We are in early days, and have yet to fully exploit the iPods, iPhones and PCs. Just watch­ing or listen­ing pass­ively runs counter to the web 2.0 read/write-ness of this media. We need off­line write (iPod). More innov­a­tion is required. Com­pet­i­tion will help.

There are a stream of videos and pho­tos appear­ing. tag: podcampperth07

Uncon­fer­ences are the right style. More dis­cus­sion and less formal sales and mar­ket­ing. In ret­ro­spect and over beer dis­cus­sion, an un-panel (thanks Sue Waters for this. excel­lent idea!) at the end would have made more feed­back and greater exchange of learnt ideas. Too formal one-way, ques­tions only at the end ses­sions are a mode of the past.

Cameron Reilly has really moved my think­ing on some points. A part of me work­ing for Microsoft is about being a part of being a Geek for Good. Movem­ber is just a small example of this. His think­ing on our future in rela­tion to a vir­tual worlds and lives, atten­tion and inten­tion is really start­ing to gel. And more than gel in his head.

Listen­ing to Duncan Riley also cleared up my think­ing on the per­sonal brand­ing side of blog­ging. I doubt that this is a major stra­tegic change for this blog, but I have yet to think the feed­back through.

Leslie Nas­sar, full of robot awe­some, presen­ted ID3v2.3 tags and what that means spe­cific­ally to mp3s; and as always edu­cated me. I miss Leslie in Sydney. Come back, dude.

Stilgher­rian, a geek and now journ­al­ist for crikey.com.au dis­cussed the inter­net and the impact on the cur­rent elec­tion in Aus­tralia. Who are the 30%? What impacts them when they vote? I am going to enjoy read­ing his next art­icle, and I’m wait­ing for his cat pic­ture so I can lolcat it. Yes, I am using it as a adjective.

Other places to read people’s feed­back and thoughts:

• Matt Vapor’s Blog
• Luke Evans: the who’s who at Pod­campsydney
• Tama Leaver on Pod­cast­ing in Edu­ca­tion
• Simone set up a Flickr photo pool
• That funny tatooed geek Grum with his Grumblr Feed
• Wolfbyte.net, high on pain killers because there was an alien implant in his big toe.
• KerryJ from Neoten­ous Tech has many posts, and I have her on cam­era with her geek story
• Duncan Riley has some incite­ful feed­back, espe­cially on uncon­fer­ences. Time for more UN, less conference
• Stilgherrian’s first thoughts. I won­der what his crikey.com.au art­icle is going to be about?
• Adam Pur­cell on Pod­Camp Perth. It’s partly his fault the Pod­camp occurred.
• The Boomtown Rap from Ross.  And fun­nier second post.
• Paul from The Taste Blog
• The quiet, yet ultra smart and best dad/host in the world Richard Giles
• The Geek Stor­ies goes PodcampPerth
• Chris Saad on the new au.Blognation
• Adam Purcell’s small video

I am in Perth all week­end. Talk­ing the world of pod­casts, vid/vodcasts, blog­ging and other stuff.

Don’t be shy! Come and say hello.

Thanks to Microsoft for spon­sor­ing; and the other spon­sors as above too.