I'm Rob Blatt. For the most part I wrote about my dogs, music and technology. I swear quite a bit, so this blog isn't for people who can't handle that. I encourage you to subscribe to the RSS feed. All the random images to the right are courtesy of my amazing wife.
Twitter was all over PodCampNYC this year. I was either meeting people that I already was following on Twitter or I was making new friends to follow on Twitter. Just about everyone had an account and just about everyone was active on it.
Twitter was how people coordinated their plans, announced which sessions they were in or going to, put together flash sessions and impromptu concerts. I didn’t even bother giving people my e-mail address or phone number. Instead I gave them my Twitter account and I made sure that I was following them on Twitter.
Like most other attendees that I encountered I have a Twitter account, but until PodCampNYC, it wasn’t really a social tool. Everyone was using Twitter so effortlessly that for the most part the service became transparent and the value was very clear.
Earlier today, I gave my first talk at a conference of any variety. I always wondered who the people who gave these talks were, and now I know I’m one of them. (They’re not crazy)
The talk was about productivity and why we wind up procrastinating in ways that seem productive. The people who came were all amazing. The room started with six, and I was going to be very happy talking to those six people, but within ten minutes of my start, I had an absolutely full room with.
I’m going to post the audio that was recorded by someone who was not me (it was BadDad). There’s a really good write up about my session by Amanda MacArthur, so if you missed it, that’s where to read up about it.
I’m out of my mind happy. I never thought I could do this, and I managed to get my first talk under my belt, and I had a great time.
More later, including my meatspace social networking idea that I used at the conference.
I’ll be posting some notes from Podcamp on the ol’ blog. If you don’t care about it, then please ignore.
Cliff Ravenscraft- Communicating with Your Audience- Building Community Around Your Podcast
Cliff is from GSPN.tv, that’s the Generally Speaking Production Network.
Remember to have a call to action. Without it, no one is gonna know to write you, stupid. Not only that, but you actually have to answer them publicly. If you don’t answer your audience, they won’t know you received their message.
Note to remember: Free online answering machines can be a repository for messages, and people can listen in with Talkshoe or watch with UStream or Yahoo live.
GSPN.tv is a vehicle for Cliff to build his brand and sell that brand as a trusted brand.
So I received my $50 check for a photograph I posted to Flickr a few years ago. It’ll go towards something nice for Amber, cause she’s the real photographer between the two of us.
Now I’ve finally made the switch on my Flickr account to Creative Commons (Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic) on all of the photos I’ve ever taken, which means you can use them on your site provided you give me credit and you’re not making money off of them. This wouldn’t allow the real estate company that wanted to use my photo, but it allows anyone else to use it.
Granted, most of my photos are taken with my iPhone, but if you want to use one of them, go ahead.
