Evening Event & Hotel

The evening event and hotels are one and the same so it makes a perfect combination for our evening event. Held on campus at aston university the business centre is a great central location and only 5-10 minutes walk from the NTI center (a few pubs on the way i am sure!)

As of this moment there are 150 bedrooms available for the weekend (basically plenty right now for the weekend, friday and saturday if required) and we have agreed a special rate via the NTI. You will need to call reservations on 0121 204 3726 and quote "NTI Rates" - you do not of course have to use the onsite hotel and accommodation - am sure there are many others in birmingham and the surrounding areas.

• classic bedroom, bed and breakfast - £40 inclusive of vat
• standard bedroom, bed and breakfast - £50 inclusive of vat
• superior bedroom, bed and breakfast - £60 inclusive of vat
  

You can see photos of the nti centre and the evening location over here.

We do intend to have a band play for an hour and there is plenty of space for chatting, drinking and i believe they have a restaurant/snack bar type thing cooking food till around 9pm. The building itself is open 24/7 with birmingham central for nightlife just a short walk away.

*update* - one of our attendees has already booked the hotel and found that the price was even better than the price above as she got the "single" rate. i believe she got the superior room at the classic bedroom price. I need to confirm this however.

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!

PodCampUK Promo

Bob Cartwright has crafted this beautiful little promo for PodcampUK. He's actually done several, but this is my favorite. You can download them here for use in your own podcast. - Thank's Bob! :)

PodCamp Promotion - banners, mp3 and video

We really need to make a good push in effort over the next 4-5 weeks to really pack this event out, we are actively producing content - banners, audio and video that you can include on your blog to advertise podcamp. If you are attending you will receive an email soon about things you can do to promote the podcamp to others, we hope to get a broad spectrum of people attending to share in the creative passion that gets released at a podcamp.

You can find some of the promotional materials over at http://podcamp.pbwiki.com/PodcampUKPromotion. Thanks to all those people that have added, sent in promotional pieces for the videostream - keep them coming. We also need little mp3 audio stingers and would ask podcasters to please consider putting in a little promotion piece into podcasts coming up to the event - it would really help things out.

PodCamp UK Ltd

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

Podcamp FlashMeeting Discussion Tonight!

Got a webcam? - Got a Microphone?

This evening at 7pm GMT we are hosting a flashmeeting (a video/audio chat room we use for videoblogging from time to time) with regards to the upcoming podcampuk. We are hoping that you will attend to have a open chat about things you would like to see at the event in september.

So far we have fifty people attending and we expect to raise this number to over 100 in the coming month. We will also talk this evening about how you can help raise awareness of the event utilizing your podcast and video feeds. Got questions please feel free to drop by and ask them, we look forward to hearing from you.

http://fm-openlearn.open.ac.uk/fm/flashmeeting.php?pwd=e7fda8-664

Chris Penn Interview

Dean Whitbread interviews PodCamp co-founder Chris Penn at PodCamp Europe in Stockholm.