Thanks to those of you who came. You’re the reason we do this.

Thanks to those who volunteered. Without you, this simply would not and could not have happened.

Thanks to those who presented. You provide the content for which everyone will talk about for weeks and hopefully use in their own lives.

Thanks to those who sponsored. It’s not cheap to put on free conference of this scale. Your support was crucial to the success of the event. Well done.

Thanks to those who talked about it. Spreading the word of fun stuff like this is a Good Thing.

Thanks to UAT for giving us — for free — a fantastic venue that truly makes the experience better.

Thanks to everyone in the Phoenix community who helped spread the word about this. I had numerous out-of-towners comment on what a fantastic community we have, and how their town simply wouldn’t be able to pull this together. While that last part is probably bullshit, you should know that others are envious of what we have done and continue to do. I take it as my personal mission to remind you of that as necessary.

Enjoy the afterglow. You’ve all earned it.

Ariel is the product of a Brady Bunch-style family and the middle of seven children. As result, she is a natural diplomat and community organizer. Ariel lives in Chicago with her husband, Andy, and cat, Boomer.

Sessions

Crowdsourcing? Crowdfunding? Co-Creation?
What do these terms mean? And more importantly, how can these strategies be used to not only create exciting products your customers crave, but also a legion of dedicated tribe members and WOM marketers?

Companies like Threadless, Innocentive, Crowdspring, Local Motors and Cameesa have utilized different Co-Creation methodologies to:

· Bring products to market customers actually want.
· Solve problems faster, with less capital.
· Build brand loyalty and WOM marketers.
· Measure demand in real time.

Co-creation strategies allow customers and community members to join the development process resulting in increased customer satisfaction and brand loyalty.

In this session we will explore these strategies and their many applications.

Sessions

Motorcycle Vlogging
Capturing the two wheeled traveling experience and trying to share it with the world. I love to travel solo by motorcycle. There’s something about this mode of transport that makes the journey incredibly visceral and exciting. Capturing this unique experience may be losing battle, but I try the best I can. Here are some of the topics I will be covering: Vlogging through a motorcycle helmet, Google Maps and YouTube video mashup, travel logs through Google Earth with video and photo layovers, geo-tagging, equipment and techniques.

Being a marketing guy, he uses many of the elements of social media to educate, inform and promote his ideology of “Business Done Right” and “Market Naturally”.

Sessions

LinkedIn is NOT just for Landing Jobs Anymore
LinkedIn.com is the site used by many to create a business profile (online resume) of their education and career accomplishments. When used correctly it becomes so much more. Landing a job is one use of the site. Landing projects is another, especially when you consider a project is nothing more than a short-term job. Being relevant to a vast audience of professionals is a third way to utilize LinkedIn to promote you.

In this session we will discuss the Do’s and Don’ts, the In’s and Out’s, the Good, Better and Best ways to build YOUR brand on the web. We’ll also share a few tips to help you monetize your efforts and maximize your time investment in this incredible FREE tool.

Took Arkayne, Inc from concept to implementation by summer of 2008. Joined with current CEO, Nicholas Aretakis, and pitched to Arizona Technology Investment Forum by early 2009. We assembled basic startup team and raised a 2 year runway by summer 2009. By fall of 2009 were engaging first customers and moving up PR and marketing efforts.

As CTO, I am responsible for managing the development team. I also coordinate all cloud computing resources and provide guidance on emerging technology in our space. Like any startup, Arkayne, Inc. requires that I wear many hats, I contribute wherever I’m needed.

Its been an exciting project thus far, we are fortunate to have a great Phoenix, AZ based team and very smart angel investors. I’ll try to update our blog on a regular basis to keep everyone up to date.

Sessions

Cloud Computing Changing Social Space
The ability of people to spread their content is not even close to their ability to generate it yet. Even today Twitter, FaceBook, Youtube, and RSS feeds barely keep up with the millions of people writing, photographing, and recording new content by the second. Whats the next revolution that will enhance online content distribution? I’m betting everything that I’ve guessed right.

As a blogger myself I’ve spent more than my fair share of time trying to get my ideas in front of an interested audience. Which got me thinking about the ideal way to disseminate content across the web. What if I could not only get my audience interested in my blog but pull in my audience’s audience as well?

The above wasn’t really scalable or possible until recently, with the advent of cloud computing that’s quickly changing. Problems that were too big or too intensive to solve in the past are now becoming trivial tasks, this is changing the way we can access, recommend, and distribute online content in ways never considered feasible just three years ago.

This presentation is about how cloud computing will change the organic nature of the web and how we interact with content and people online.

Sessions

Ghost-tweeting? Says who?
Social media Tweeting and Facebooking (now verbs, yes) has jumped forward from being a strictly personal web tool to a massive marketing initiative from brands, celebs and companies alike. Who’s making all that media? Ghost tweeters and Fan page admins! I’ll explore this new arena of communications and share why it’s not as taboo as the purists want it to be.

Still need ideas? Here’s some of the things we are finalizing right now.

• PodCast AZ – Every year we have live podcasting throughout the entire session. Contact Dani Cutler and Dan and CJ Feierabend at onair@podcampaz.com to get on the airwaves.
• Speakers – We have an awesome speaker lineup already, and are still taking submissions, but only through Saturday. The schedule gets published Monday!
• Volunteers – We need a small army of people to help on event days. We might even have some cool swag for you, like a t-shirt and other unidentified stuff. If you want to march in our army, contact Crystal O’Hara at volunteer@podcampaz.com.
• Tees – We have 600 t-shirts to give to registered attendees, and over 500 people are already registered. If you want in on the goodness, get registered.

As always, an extensive list of information and resources are available on our Blog Blast Central Page. Pick your favorite thing about PodCamp AZ and just blog it already.

See you in the flesh on November 14th, and online many many times before that!

1. Registration information: We have imported the information you sent us over the last year and loaded it into our new system so you can look at what we have and make sure what we have is correct. This is important because we use this information in printing badges for you, buying t-shirts for you and getting everything ready… FOR YOU! Please take a moment and login to double check our record keeping skills and right any wrongs.
2. Session voting: This one is critical. We need to get an idea of how to place the sessions in the rooms we have provided. We have come up with a voting system that allows you to vote for up to 10 sessions you think are worth attending. Don’t worry, we won’t hold you to your votes and you can change them at any time. We just want to know where the interest is and who MIGHT attend. So please spend all of your votes and spend them wisely. We greatly appreciate the little extra effort.
3. Beta Testing: As this is a very new application, we know there are most likely bugs and tweaks that we need to make. We need your help hashing out all the bugs. We have Uservoice installed on the site, so if you would be so kind and help us report issues you see, we would be eternally grateful!
4. Spread the word: If you haven’t already noticed, this is something we should have launched several weeks ago and we know that but please give us some grace as this free unconference has a lot of moving parts and this one was one of the last to come into place. If you could help us spread the word by forwarding, tweeting, telling and whatever else you can do to help us get the word out in the short time we have until the event. Again… We are eternally grateful!

Thank you in advance! We can’t wait to see you in 2 weeks!

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Since 1974 MultiMedia Communications (MMC) has provided a wide range of consulting and creative production services to business, industry, medical, financial and educational institutions.

MMC is a full-service multimedia production and marketing company specializing in the development and creation of information delivery systems and interactive kiosks. MMC employs a team of top notch professionals including graphic artists, animators, videographers, editors, writers, technical production staff and account executives.

Mr Baine has been a college professor lecturing on a wide variety of media topics and production techniques. He been a consultant to many fortune 500 companies and active in the digital sinage industry.

For more information about Multi-Media Communications go to http://www.mmcom.com

Sessions

TriCaster & Podcasting
Multi-Media Communications is the exclusive ” Elite Dealer” for NewTek in Arizona.

Get a first hand look at how to integrate the NewTek TriCaster into your podcasting or new media environment. This session will show you all you need to know about the TriCaster and how it can impact your ability to engage your audience round the clock!

See how the TriCaster can be used as an exciting interactive production tool to involve your audience. You will create “Live Sets”, video stream in seconds, and learn how to create a ” Live On The Air” presence using Skype.

This is a hands on practical educational session and NOT a sales presentation.

We will also have on hand the brand new XD300 TriCaster as well as the NewTek HD 3PLAY system.