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Got back yesterday from Pod Camp. I had originally thought that the one day conference would be focusing on things like, well, I don’t know… podcasting. I am actually interested in learning podcasting which I have never done, so that was cool, but then I read the description and discovered that the presentations were on a variety of social media.

Then I got there. The setup was strikingly similar to the RE Bar Camp that I attended before Inman, without the real estate slant. The schedule was posted, with participants using sticky notes to suggest either topics of interest that they were interested in seeing, or that they would lead discussion of. To me, this was absolute heaven- a spot where you could pick and choose, and suggest, interactive presentations.

There were perhaps 10 topics presented in 4 slots, with two hours being allowed for lunch and networking. Two hours? That, I thought, was excessive, until we actually got into it and it ended up not being enough. The lunch was good:

but the conversation was better. I spoke more in depth with several people from the conference, picked up some great add-on ideas (thanks, @jeraa2t**!) and was shown how to drop music into video (hi, @LesleyLambert *waving!*)- which I really need to play around with more. All in all- two thumbs up for content and in the way it was set up to facilitate learning by sharing. Next post will share some of the information shared in camp.

**Firefox add-ons for twitter: Power Twitter, Search Cloudlet. Cloudlet gives you a cloud of the terms on the page you are on; Power twitter adds many features, incl. pulling up tweets in which your user name is mentioned anywhere, not just @tweets.

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