Hello again, Podcampers. It's been nearly a week since Podcamp Nashville 2013 and I wanted to circle back and wrap up a few loose ends.
Please take the survey: This morning, whether or not you actually attended Podcamp, you should have received a survey that will help plan next year's event. Please look for it and complete it. It takes about a minute, and it would be super helpful.
For the record: If you have slides from your presentation, photos of your session, a post-event blog post, or even your own video, please send a link to Carla Swank (
carla...@gmail.com), who coordinated the marketing for this year's Podcamp. We'd like to do a second blog tour on the Podcamp website. Plus, it captures archives that information for posterity.
About those MTSU videos: MTSU students did their best to capture every session, but we are pretty sure that not every session was recorded. Podcamp took place on the weekend before their finals week, so they couldn't come out in the numbers they would have liked. We hope to get in touch with them next week for a status report. Right now the plan is to post everything on the Podcamp Nashville website that we can get our hands on. Whatever we can get from MTSU, I will see to it you get a copy.
On a personal note: From the Oxford English Dictionary:
community |kəˈmyoōnitē|
noun ( pl. -ties)
1 a group of people living together in one place, esp. one practicing common ownership.
I volunteered for Podcamp (and most recent Barcamp) because I felt like it was time to give back to the digital community in Nashville. Well, that, and Dave Delaney challenged me on Twitter to attend a planning meeting.
If any of you wanted to meet for coffee, I would make time for you and I'm pretty sure you would make time for me. We are a community. This is how we do it in Nashville.
So now I'm going to do what Dave did. If you feel Podcamp has been worthwhile for you, personally and professionally, I challenge you to volunteer for Barcamp in the fall, or next year's Podcamp. I challenge you to play a greater role in your community. If you feel like it's time to give back, great. I hope you at least consider it.
And if you ever want to meet for coffee, you know how to reach me.
Respectfully submitted,
Edwin Acevedo
Speaker's Butler, Podcamp Nashville 2013