PodCamp Toronto 2008
Yesterday I took part in the Social Media & Branding panel at PodCamp Toronto together with Mitch Canter, Laura Fitton and Mitch Joel who was joining via audio.
A big ‘Thank You!’ to all the organizers and especially to Connie Crosby, Dave Fleet, Eden Spodek and Jay Moonah who was moderating the panel!
The event was really well organized and what I think made it special was the live video stream accessible from this page. This live video stream was a great idea because it gave the possibility to lots of people to attend the event even if they were not physically present in Toronto. (Media archive available here)
A really nice moment during the panel was when Jay said that Joseph Jaffe was saing ‘Hi!’, probably Joseph was attending via live stream too. That gives you the idea of how nice and ‘global atmosphere’ there was at the event. (By the way, Joseph what you thought about the event?)
Especially when we talk about social media and branding, if there is one thing that starts to become pretty much clear is that we are going global so that’s why I was really happy to participate and bring the European point of view to the discussion we had in Toronto.
The great value of what we talked about in the panel gave me also good inspiration (like it usually happens to me on nich events like this..) for future posts that I’ll publish here on my blog and on my media channel (VMC) too.
For the panel video call we used oovoo. How this worked? Well! Here’s a screenshot of my screen during the panel, by clicking on the following picture you’ll go directly to Flickr where I added couple of notes to explain how this was working
Click here to see more photos from PodCamp Toronto! Here more PodCamp Toronto screenshots from me.
PodCamp Toronto…loved it! See you next year, and who knows…maybe not virtually but in our ‘First Life’ in Toronto!
Andrea
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Andrea:
Thank you so much for participating and helping us show this new tool. We couldn’t see it quite as well as you from our end in the room, but it was a lot of fun. Having you participate helped us show how it can make the world a little bit smaller.
Feel free to add your contact info on our new ooVoo page: http://podcamptoronto.pbwiki.com/oovoo
Cheers!
Connie
Thank you Connie,
It was a pleasure participating to panel and most importantly, like you said, it was a lot of fun!
Yes I saw a photo that Dave took from the room
at least looking at the feedback from the audience…(especially via Twitter after the session!)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dave_fleet/2290220330/
but the result seamed to be pretty good
I agree.. this world is so small!
Of course, I’ll add my contact info to the wiki
Have a great day Connie!
Andrea
if you are looking for a technology that could let you do live multicast, try yahoo! live at http://live.yahoo.com/
Hi Bruno!
Thank you for your comment and link!
Few days ago I was thinking right about Yahoo live
http://live.yahoo.com/andreavascellari
http://live.yahoo.com/profile/andreavascellari
What I like is the fact that I can ‘bring people in’ my sessions (kind of..)
the only minus is that I can’t record any session…but for the rest I tested it out and it doesn’t seem to be bad…
The idea is nice, but so far I can’t see that ’special feature’ that would make me move from ustream etc…
What do you think? Will they improve its functionality? Did I miss something? Do you have any suggestions/insides about it?
As you already know I really trust your point of view so I’m looking forward to hear what you think about it!
Andrea
Hi Andrea,
Thank you so much for not only helping present the power of ooVoo at PodCamp Toronto but showing that even being as far away as Finland, you were able to actively participate in PodCamp.
Any plans for a PodCamp closer to home?
I hope to chat with you ooVoo soon and look forward to seeing you at PodCamp Toronto 2009!
Cheers,
Eden
Hi Eden!
A big ‘Thanks’ goes to you and all the other organizers
The idea of a PodCamp closer to home has actually crossed my mind from time to time…well in that case you are more than welcome to (virtually/not virtually) join a panel discussion too!
we’ll definitely meet on oovoo and hopefully next year IN Toronto!
Andrea