In February when I attended PodCamp Toronto 2010 I noticed how they had used Google Docs embedded in and iframe within a WordPress page for the conference schedule. I thought this was a brilliant idea. This week I was able to appropriate this idea for use on the http://cgpa.ca website. The CGPA Conference organizers will [...]
I’ve been blogging all week about the sessions I attended at Podcamp Toronto 2010. If you’ve looked at the schedule you know that there were a lot of great sessions happening concurrently. Although technology hasn’t evolved to the point where I could be present to hear all the presentations live, we do have the next best thing; podcasts [...]
What a Podcasting newbie learned at Podcamp Toronto 2010:
What is Podcasting? Listening to Podcasts; Why Podcast? Recording a Podcast; Editing a Podcast; Podcasting from your WordPres blog.
All of us, regardless of age need to ask ourselves questions around personal privacy and the social web.
Brad Buset presented a session at Podcamp Toronto 2010 entitled “Defaulting Privacy: Personal information and the social web”. Brad’s presentation about digital privacy helped shed some light on shifting privacy norms and all those little choices online citizens make every day. The creators of Please Rob Me want to raise awareness of the privacy issues surrounding location based services.
I was pleased that this important topic was addressed at Podcamp Toronto 2010 by Adele Mcalear in a session called “Death and Digital Legacy in Social Media”. This thought-provoking session was the high point of Podcamp for me. Adele’s presentation was very professional and she covered a lot of ground in the short time allocated. Adele addressed questions such as What happens to your digital life when you pass away? What are the important things you should be thinking about while you are still here? How do families deal with a digital legacy?
PodCamp is a free “unconference” that brings together professionals and hobbyists from Toronto and the GTA to explore the cutting edge of new and social media. Recently I looked at my notes from last year’s WordCamp but I couldn’t make much sense out of them. I’ve decided not to let that happen with my Podcamp notes; I’m going to blog this week about what I learned from PodCamp Toronto 2010.
