Bon's Mots

I had the plea­sure of at­tend­ing Podcamp Toronto this past week­end. Over 600 peo­ple con­verged at the Rogers Communications Centre at Ryerson to lis­ten to their peers talk about new me­dia, so­cial net­work­ing sites, blog­ging and pod­cast­ing (natch). The two-day “un­con­fer­ence” was free, thanks to its many spon­sors, and of­fered a venue to for so­cial me­dia pros and am­a­teurs alike to min­gle, net­work and learn from each other.

It was a great way to meet new peo­ple who share my in­ter­est in so­cial net­work­ing tools. I was also able to meet the real live peo­ple be­hind the small Twitter avatars I see every day. And I learned some­thing new at every ses­sion I attended. 

I won’t bore you with minute de­tails of what was dis­cussed at Podcamp (af­fec­tion­ately known by its hash­tag #pcTO09); all ses­sions were recorded and will be posted on the Podcamp Toronto wiki (http://​pod​camp​toronto​.pb​wiki​.com/). I urge you to lis­ten to each ses­sion — every speaker is pas­sion­ate about their topic and the fun is in lis­ten­ing to them reach out to their au­di­ences and share their knowledge.

Thanks and con­grats to the or­ga­niz­ers of this event!