THANK YOU Participants!
A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who attended PodcasterCon! Your active participation made it the huge success it was. Thanks to the people who came together online before hand and got this organic unconference going!
Many people wondered before the event what an unconference was. It is a rather strange idea to wrap your head around. But it’s liberating once you do it. To me it’s the feeling of having a bit of control over the outcome of your life. To partner with others and take some control - to learn, to grow, and to create. I think the people who attended PodcasterCon got to experience this. But each of us had a unique individual experience. I hope yours was possitive.
What’s really interesting to me is that an unconference is larger than a single definition. It’s a distributed concept not a unified concept. Each and every person is a node in the social network of the unevent that makes up an unconference. The Internet itself is our greatest example and analogy of an unsystem. It prepared us to work together in a network centric manner in a physical space.
Also big thanks to our financial donors and our volunteers. Without your help I wouldn’t have been able to pull this off. I’m still a bit overwhelmed and can’t believe it’s over. I am so happy and proud. With time I’ll have more to say…
There is LOTS of information from the event to aggregate and share. It’ll take a little while to bring together. But once the PodcasterCon site is reorganized a but it will transform into a organizing tool AND a podcasting educational resource.
January 10th, 2006 at 8:51 am
Bravo, Brian. You had an idea, you built an event around that idea, and you attracted interesting, talented, helpful, nice people to the event. I enjoyed the day quite a lot. Thanks for putting so much time, energy and effort into this.
January 16th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
Brian,
I had a great time at the podcastercon and took in a lot of insightful information and tips. I thought the un-conference format worked well and that it was a success! And thanks for the book. It has answered every question I’ve had.