Presentations and Sessions

Who Can Speak at PodCamp.in

You can. Yes, you. Everyone can. Unlike a regular conference where speaking slots are allotted only to the highest bidder, Unconferences are by you, for you. If you don't see a session here that you want, create one and present it! Share what you know and your fellow participants will do the same.

The Law of Two Feet

Simply put: your experience at PodCamp is what you want it to be. At any time, if you're not learning what you want to learn, if you're not getting what you need, you have every right to depart the session you're in and move to a different one, or none at all.

Types of Sessions and Presentations

• Presentation: 30 minutes in a room of your peers. Help us all learn something new... The intelligence is in the room... discuss a topic that interests you... get everyone involved...
• Lightning Talk: 5-minute impromptu talk in a quiet corner on a gem you've discovered and want to share.
• Jam Session: 30 minutes of your acoustic music if you're a musician - let us hear you live! Be sure to bring some merch for a table in the corner.
• Lightning Concert: 5 minutes of your best acoustic song whenever, whenever.

Please note: The organizers of Podcamp.in are working to ensure sessions will be recorded via video and/or audio but can't guarantee all sessions will be covered. Along these lines, we encourage you to record your own session and send us a link so we can upload it to our wiki and make it available via a DVD/public format. If you don't want your session recorded, that's fine too. Just let us know.

Also, there are ways to record your session that are free and you can use the day of Podcamp. Here are some below you should check out and test before you arrive:

TalkShoe Allows you to record your session (audio only) by talking on your cellphone to a live, virtual audience. Think about getting Blue Tooth enabled and have friends join you who can text/ask questions via phone (along with your live audience).

PalTalk Allows you to record video content/chats via webcam. Great way to record your content and either feature it live or videocast it later on. (May be monthly charges for service)

List of Sessions Offered and Sessions Wanted

Sessions Offered

• The Real ROI for Podcasting - How corporations can hire podcasters, and podcasters can maybe make enough money to eat.
• The Open Metrics Initiative - The Open Metrics Initiative is a growing group of people dedicated to discovering which standards best suit content developers and advertisers alike. Come join a discussion that could greatly effect the future of monetization in the new media space at large.
• How to Craft Your 15 Second Pitch - Like an elevator ride, only shorter. Be memorable, not just marketable.
• Promoting Your Podcast
• 10 Quick Steps to Creating a Podcast,
• 7 Ways to Make Your Audio Sound Professional
• Stump The Podcast Consultant Five podcast consultants stand up front with buzzers; people in audience call out problems that need solving in their business or other situations they'd like help with; pc's up front hit buzzer and instantly come up with applications.
• WWE (World Championship Editing, ala WWF) Four people up front go head to head with different editing software; (one with Audacity, one with GBand, etc.) Someone emails them raw audio and they try to edit all the "ums" out and compress, etc. while a clock ticks away. First file done wins and people vote by clapping, etc.
• Monetizing Your Podcast - "Podcasting is great, but can how can I put rupees in my pocket?"
• Creating a Real Podcast Brand On No Money
• Participatory Podcasting - Crowdsourcing your content, and engaging passive listeners for better response.
• How our podcasts grow and change: Podcamp session is a great opportuntity to share among podcasters with all different levels of experience. Focus will be a guiding model, and then facilitation and discussion
• Analyzing Successful Podcasts
• From a blogger to a podcaster - How to make the transition?
• Live Interactive Podcasting - Learn how and why podcasters are using live interactive podcasts to connect with their audience and produce a new type of live podcast. This includes a discussion of how podcast hosts and listeners can interact via telephone, VoIP and text-chat.
• Case Study: TWiT-TV's new net@nite live interactive podcast. We will discuss how and why Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur are using this new podcasting format.
• Treat Your Podcast Like a Business: If you want to make a significant income from your podcast, then you're in the business of podcasting.
• Podcasting via Cell Phones Will talk about the pros and cons of audio podcasting via the cellphone.
• save the __cking world through social media the power of podcasting for non profits.

• Plan A Killer Podcast - 3 ways to plan your podcast strategy so that you gain a slew of listeners with your first episode.
• Panel Discussion - Corporate Podcasting Tactics
• The Real ROI for podcasting - How/why podcasting can save money for your firm/business.
• Building a community - Branding is an important part of establishing your identity. Podcasting affords opportunities to leverage your brand to build a community of interest with active members and regular correspondence and dialog. This presentation shares ideas and real-life accounts of how a Podcast can be used to build a community.
• Editing Techniques and Decisions - Demonstrations and tangible examples to make sense of what Bruce Murray once dubbed "Blevis-ian editing".
• Building Your Personal Brand Through Podcasting - Understanding the three types of conversations that engage listeners, grow your audience, get you more traffic and establish yourself as a recognized authority.
• How to Make Money In Podcasting as a Journalist - I want to share from my own experience how to transition your freelance or full-time journalism skills into podcasting.
• Grass-Roots Academic Podcasting - How law schools, colleges and universities can use podcasting in the public interest.
• Using Podcasting in Secondary Schools - Generating ideas about how teens can make a difference using podcasting.
• Whisper to a Scream: making Compression, Limiting, Normalization & Noise Reduction your Friends - Using some standard audio processing techiques you too can create clean and listenable sound for your podcasts.
• Vlogging: Getting started for the Average Joe - I bought a used camcorder and I began capturing and sharing what I hope will be a lifetime of video moments, for FREE. I'll tell/show you how you can too.
• Live Interactive Podcasting - Mark Juliano from TalkShoe Discussion of how to create a live interactive podcast and connect with your listeners. Case studies, advice, and tools. Also hear about how TWiT is using live interactive podcasting.
• It Isn't Just a Video Game: Second Life for Events - Uses of the virtual world Second Life for education, entertainment and networking.
• Add a session you can present on to this growing list.

Sessions Wanted

• Tips on how to get started with video podcasting.
• The difference between using blogger, typepad and wordpress to publish your podcast.
• Tools of the trade - let's compare who is using what
• Promoting your podcast and building an audience
• Ice breaker - some sort of session in which everyone introduces themselves to each other (also a non-embarrassing reminder for those of us who have already met)
• Barenaked Ladies talk about music and podcasting See article.
• Amber MacArthur of CITY-TV, Net@Nite, CommandN, Inside the Net, Tech TV, etc.
• Add a session you want to hear about.