PodCamp Boston
On Sep 9-10 PodCamp – a free meetup for podcasters, bloggers, authors and readers – will be held in Boston. Our client Leesa Barnes will be presenting on several topics, including a 5 minute lightning talk about using Wordpress and podPress to publish podcasts. This talk is the result of our recent work when we together found out about nice podPress features and its drawbacks in distributing podcasts.
Interestingly that PodCamp organizators used a free wiki and a free blog to advertise and present the information about the conference. Yet another good example of using free open source components and word-of-mouth marketing to cut costs on advertising and promoting ideas/products/services.
Chris Brogan... said,
September 3, 2006 at 5:41 am
We used a free wiki, but we did end up paying for the bigger verion, just in case. (Just a technical correction).
So, in all, here’s the tech we used to make PodCamp:
Wiki- pbwiki
Email- (most of us used gmail)
IM- Adium or iChat (depending)
Voice- Skype and then Gizmo (watch part of the video at podcamp.wordpress.com for a funny story about this).
Blog- wordpress.com (free, too)
Customer Relations – Technorati (how I found you)
Group Chat- Campfire (37 signals)
Kinda neat, eh?
ignat said,
September 4, 2006 at 12:05 am
Chris, thank you for the correction and for the full list of the technologies used. There is nothing wrong in upgrading to bigger versions later when the project gains some attention and funds. Free tools and services can help us to start a business even when we have zero budget. And when it becomes successful it’s logical to pay for an upgrade to facilitate its further growth. Anyway you guys showed great knowledge of the tools available and how to use them together successfully.