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Archived Sessions: Trevor Dann & Dean Whitbread

Dean Whitbread's video of Trevor Dann's session on radio and podcasting, Saturday 1st September 2007 (flash video, 30 minutes)

Brian Greene's recording of Dean Whitbread's session on Creativity, Sunday 2nd September 2007 (audio, MP3, 34 minutes).

More thanks in order!

PodCamp UK 2007 has now come to a close and what a wonderful, entertaining, enlightening and eventful gathering it was. Around 80-90 people turning up for two fantastic days of learning, sharing, networking and socializing in the open and informal atmosphere of the Birmingham New Technology Institute.

Friendships were formed, old ties renewed, food, wine, beer and superb music were liberally served and the UK new media community showed yet again its tremendous energy and enormous enthusiasm for creating, learning about and growing the global and local new media community.

Thanks to everyone who attended and supported. We love you guys! You are the creative hub around which our event revolved. Your passion and dedication as media makers and content creators is amazing; your drive towards constantly improving what you do is inspiring; PodCamp UK was your event. YOU are the maIn reason it happened at all. Thank you.

We'll be collating the various media from the event together over the next week or so and we'll post the links here as and when we can. If you have media you'd like to contribute, please use the tag podcampuk when posting it so that it will be easier for us to find. Thanks...

To Neil, Oliver, Merlinda and Aamar, the truly top notch team at the NTI we offer our collective thanks and a warm round of (virtual) applause. You could not have done a better job. The treatment we got was first class. The NTI was the true home of our PodCamp. From all of us to all of you, thank you.

To the band Esteban, DJ's Tim Baker and Brian Greene, thanks for giving us a party night to remember with great music and good vibes.

We also raise our virtual glasses to Mr Jeff Pulver for buying such a gigantic round of drinks! Even though you didn't attend Jeff, we'd like you to know that your generosity contributed greatly to the happiness of a lot of people and incidentally a few mild headaches on Sunday morning! :)

To the staff at the Aston Business Conference Centre which was virtually taken over for 2 days by PodCamp UK; many thanks. Great hotel and really helpful staff

To our sponsors Cheeze, Digital Central, Wells Park, Podcast Nation, Blogtv (who streamed the event) Bliptv, Techsmith, Pod3.tv, BTPodshow and Node 10. You asked for little and gave a lot in return. We send you our warmest regards and we offer our sincere appreciation. PodCamps are only FREE to attend because guys like you understand the power of community and the creativity of the grassroots. Thanks for paying our bills!

To our fellow PodCamp people across the globe, we wish your events the same warm glow and the same energizing spirit we found in Birmingham this past weekend.

It only remains for us to say "Podcamp UK you were awesome!" Thank you and for now at least, goodnight!" :)

PodcampUK - The Aftermath!

We had some great times, conversations flowed and new friendships built, tune in tonight via webcam and audio mic input (flashmeeting) at 8pm GMT to chat with others from the weekend. If you can make it please drop by and say hello. We have a two hour slot to talk about how to improve for the next one (right?!) what you got from it and what to do next year.
(http://fm-openlearn.open.ac.uk/fm/080ed4-787) (replay at same link!)

You can find all some photos from the weekend that craig took (the dude with all the awesome gear!) at the entrance. Hope you'll twitter about the flashmeeting chat tonight. I personally want to thank john for his hard work with the setup of event and the sponsors, for without them it would not have happened. Please email all the sponsors to thank them personally if you can (even if just one line) (http//www.flickr.com/photos/clanlife)

blogtv show streams
main room - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/9572
conference - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/9573
boardroom - http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/9576

blogtv archived video
http://tinyurl.com/2khaef

Any of your videos you want to have hosted for free i can put them on the http://podcampuk.blip.tv feed so everyone can get to them if you like, or tell me where the video is hosted and i will grab them and add them to the feed (with your permission of course)

Thanks Everyone!

Well, that was PodCampUK. Two days of packed, self-administered entertainment, enthusiasm, learning, sharing, debate, microphones, cameras, suggestions and ideas.

Thanks all the people without whom the event wouldn't have happened - to the volunteers, in particular, John Buckley, Phil Campbell, Linda Mills, Simon Toon, and Mark Crook; to the sponsors for their financial and moral support; to all the staff at the NTI who made the entire thing a really pleasant experience; and many, many thanks to all the people who came and took part and made the sessions the exciting, rewarding and dynamic places they turned out to be. Well done all.

Those of you who missed the live streams, and/or who want to collect goodies from our new media archive, check back for links to podcasts and recordings.

What is PodCamp UK?

PodCampUK is a free two-day event bringing all the excitement and ideas and energy of a PodCamp to the UK for the first time. This unique event is taking place on the 1st and 2nd of September at the New Technology Institute in Birmingham, and promises to be a brilliant mix of ideas, technology, live music, free food, great people and much more...

September 1/2 2007 - Birmingham NTI
Sign-up NOW!
PodCamps are meetups for anyone interested in New Media. The first PodCamp was held in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2006, and they are now spreading across the globe, enabling culture, commerce and connections.

The "Pod" in PodCamp comes from podcasting; but you can expect to find anyone at PodCamp, podcasters, video makers, software developers, entrepreneurs, journalists, musicians, social networkers, marketers, producers, publishers, PR firms, educators, actors, writers, boys, broadcasters, girls and Web 2.0 gurus, all using the internet to communicate with shared media.

Some are beginners, some are experts, but all are enthused by what they are doing, redefining the old media landscape and defining a brand new culture.

PodCamp UK is a free event (we never tire of saying that!) - an open door on new media, organised by volunteers who have all experienced Podcamps elsewhere in the world. To pay for the venue for two days with food for all attendees, we now have sponsorship from UK businesses Cheeze, Podcast Nation, Digital Central and Pod3.tv. Nick Saalfeld from Wells Park has very kindly offered to pick up the refreshments & Jeff Pulver has put a tab behind the bar for the Saturday night social.

This is a FIRST - media coverage is bound to increase as we draw nearer to the first weekend in September. Please contact us if you are interested in joining our sponsors, and helping to make Podcamp UK a truly special event.

The event is taking place on the 1st and 2nd of September at the New Technology Institute in Birmingham, England.

PodCamp UK in Second Life: Stage

Freebies, T-shirts and Streaming Gear!

In a last minute rush everything seems to have come together with the freebie giveaway 100 t-shirts from blogtv arriving - the official streaming pack equipment literally getting here and the condenser mics needed to stream from the 4 rooms. Add to this the awesome Second Life setup and the PodCamp looks to be off to a great start and we have not even opened the doors yet!

We hope to start testing the video streams setup for the sessions around 5pm/6pm GMT tomorrow (Friday) in preparation for the early saturday morning start.

We have also limited supplies of the official PodCampuk t-shirts that will be for sale for £5 each at the event, if you require one please update the wiki so we can allocate one to you ahead of time.

Also, our promotion of the event for people to come and watch virtually has started on blogtv.com - we have prime banner space across all blogtv platforms - we are expecting a great turnout of people viewing the sessions and live stream over the weekend.

Pod3.tv Joins PodCamp UK!

With PodcampUK less than one month away, we are delighted to announce that another great sponsor has joined the cause. The latest recruit, comes in the form of the innovative video-podcast and webtv company Pod3.tv.

Created in 2006, Pod3.tv was the brainchild of Neil Fairbrother, who created the 6th fastest growing brand in the UK in 2002 (Langley-based Neos Networks), where he invented Liquid Bandwidth' business-to-business telecoms service. The beautifully designed Pod3.tv succinctly defines their purpose, when it describes the company as a "21st century TV company" that creates "high quality TV-style shows as video podcasts that are commercially sponsored – just like commercial TV."

With content that ranges from the arts and music, to business, documentary, food and drink, gardening, travel and more, Pod3.tv is a forward thinking and highly creative company and as such, is a perfect sponsor for the UK's first ever PodCamp.

This is yet more fantastic news for an event that is rapidly shaping up as the new-media party of the UK summer.

Join us by signing up on the wiki. It's totally free to attend and it's going to be really special!

PodCamp UK Ltd

Podcamp UK Ltd, a non-profit company number 6319378, registered at Companies House, Cardiff, Wales, 20th July 2007.

Introduction & Promotion

Hello there, my name is philip campbell. I recently met up with John Buckley at podcampeurope. After not seeing John for nearly 2 years, it was nice to slip back into conversations again and talk about life, media and social networking events. After a quick discussion it appeared that adding additional people to the PodcampUK team would benefit it greatly, so I've stepped up to virtual plate to help.

I'm hoping to bring viral videos and mp3 and video mashups to bear in promoting PodCampUK and in showing some of the things you might learn while at the event. I have already setup a blip.tv account for distribution of these promos via rss feed; so you can grab them and use them in your own media podcast or videoblog productions.

Basically we need YOU to spread the message. I know one of the issues we have is sponsors - We need to make sure we can spread awareness of PodCampUK far and wide. It would be great to meet some of our Swedish friends again from podcampeurope at the uk event!

I have created accounts and distribution methods across some of the major video/media sharing networks and will start to auto syndicate to these as the videos/media/promos comes in - chances are a media platform you use will be covered.

facebook group : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2369610558
facebook event : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2360888978
dailymotion: http://www.dailymotion.com/podcampuk
youtube: http://youtube.com/profile?user=podcampuk
dailymotion rss: http://www.dailymotion.com/rss/podcampuk
blip.tv : http://podcampuk.blip.tv
blip.tv rss: http://podcampuk.blip.tv/?skin=rss

More added soon.. . oh and btw, linda mills has started a jaiku channel over @ http://jaiku.com/channel/podcampuk

The When & Where!

I went to Birmingham yesterday, to view the facilities at the New Technology Institute (NTI) for PodCampUK in September. After a quick tour, I sat down for a chat with Neil Emery - one of the people in charge of running the place...

Neil has a background in music - he used to run a recording studio. Now he's working for the NTI and (amongst other things) teaches kids how to use new-media tools. He also has a genuine passion for podcasting and puts together the Saturday night Glee Club comedy podcast. He intuitively gets the ethos of a PodCamp event.

I'm delighted to announce that on the basis of our discussions, PodCampUK is now pencilled into the NTI diary for Saturday and Sunday, September 1st and 2nd, 2007.

The NTI is a purpose-built Apple Accredited Training Centre right in the heart of Birmingham city centre. It's a great venue for PodCampUK; with a beautiful open-plan layout and plenty of light and air. It's technically well equipped with lots of computer access points, giant plasma screens in all the main rooms, plus plenty of breakout space, and a brilliant Mezzanine layout which will be perfect for hosting impromptu group discussions.

The main seminar room can be laid out as one large space, or split into two separate areas. There are two additional 'boardroom' environments and several smaller meeting rooms. There's also a dedicated IT space which can be set-up for blogging on the day. It's close to three railway stations; there are good parking facilities near-by an it's ours for two days in the first week of September! So, sign-up on the wiki and get involved in making PodCampUK an outstanding and memorable weekend for everyone. It's your event now and with your help, ideas and input, we can make PodCampUK a really special event for everyone!

See you at the New Technology Institute for PodcampUK in September... ;)