Creating Your Own Session
At the very beginning of PodcasterCon we’ll all be together in one room. One of the most important things we have to-do is create more session subjects. The fact is we can have more than five sessions. All you really have to do is find someone else interested in what you are interested in and talk about it.
But in an effort to encourage everyone to get creative and document our group knowledge I’ll ask for some session topics from the group and put them up on the blackboard and the PodCon wiki main page. The only requirements to propose a session are:
1) Take good session notes and put them on the wiki
2) Record audio of your session
3) Encourage a group discussion not a one-way lecture
Any ideas that remain that didn’t make it on the PodCon wiki main page can still be put on the MORE Sessions page. Matter of fact you can put session ideas here NOW. So go for it. Fill up this page with ideas you want to discuss. Just include a session title, a description, and your name. If you put an idea here get ready to really talk about it and fulfill the requirements I mentioned above. (Session “requirements” and methods may change some before and during PodcasterCon. Let’s be flexible.)
Also if you’ve registered you can add information about yourself on your own page. Goto the People Who’ve Registered page on the PodCon wiki and look for your name. Click on your name and edit away.
December 27th, 2005 at 10:20 am
I would like to discuss standards and policing of podcast and videoblog directories.
In particular, I think it would be helpful to find common ground between the need to maintain freedom of expression in the pod/vlogosphere and the need for those who would like to maintain control over what content can be seen/heard in certain environments.
I would also like to facilitate a discussion of who would be responible in making these decisions.
January 3rd, 2006 at 3:42 am
I would like to discuss the ways in which podcasting and traditional broadcast media intersect. While I can share information about commercial radio’s experimentation with podcasting (e.g., KYOU in San Francisco, assorted morning shows across the country) I would like to hear from the group some ideas about how podcasting can become even more integrated into mainstream media, provide more avenues to get alternative viewpoints more coverage, and increase the amount of local coverage in broadcast radio.
January 5th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
Inclusion of and thematic possibilities of music in podcasts.
We wanted to host a panel on the inclusion of and thematic possibilities of music in podcasts. Whether to set a mood, expand on what you’re talking or making your cast cohesive as a whole, music in podcasts as bedding, as the focal point, transistion pieces and themes can add that extra sheen to your podcast.
So far it will consist of me, TomShad of Wheelbarrow and My Life Sways Like Reeds in the Wind, Dave Sheppard of the Word Nerds and possibly Chris Doelle.