PodCamp

A few days after Bar­Camp Perth 2007, one of the Perth Twit­ter Mob found the Pod­Camp Aus­tralia and it was passed quickly through the local social network.

At that time the Pod­Camp site was very bare, there was no inform­a­tion about the people behind the concept, just an About Pod­Camp page and a sign up page. How­ever, after the buzz of Bar­Camp Perth 2007 the oppor­tun­ity for another uncon­fer­ence con­cen­trat­ing on the social side of the web was too good an offer to refuse, espe­cially with some­body else doing the organ­ising. So most of the Perth Twit­ter Mob, Bar­Camp Perth 2007 attendees and any­body who we could roundup, registered an interest for Pod­Camp and voted for it to be held in Perth. Cur­rently Perth is lead­ing Sydney by two to one and Mel­bourne lag­ging a dis­tant third.

I am sure people behind Pod­Camp Aus­tralia (now revealed as Jared Mad­den and Adam Pur­cell) where expect­ing a Sydney versus Mel­bourne duel to host pod­camp and this would gen­er­ate bonus pub­li­city. With Bris­bane, Adelaide and Perth thrown into the mix to see if there was sup­port for Pod­Camp out­side the big two cit­ies next year or later.

Instead there was huge vote from people inter­ested in blog­ging, pod­cast­ing, social net­work­ing, new media etc. for Perth. You just need to go down to the Brass Mon­key on the third Wed­nes­day of each month for the blog­gers meetup (and unof­fi­cial twit­ter meetup) to see there is an interest in social media in Perth. There was 25 people on a cold and slightly damp mid week gathering.

Jared and Adam have given until the 17 August for the web cap­ital of Aus­tralia, Sydney (ask Cameron Adams) to get the votes to knock Perth of the top. For­tu­nately for Perth there is Uncon­fWALib: Lib­rary 2.0 On The Loose to gen­er­ate more votes. So Sydney­siders, you have not got a hope, any­way you have web­jam to keep you enter­tained. For all you Perth people get out and vote now at Pod­Camp Aus­tralia. I guess we will be see­ing Jared and Adam soon.

tagged Pod­Camp Pod­Camp Aus­tralia Uncon­fWALib Bar­Camp Perth 2007

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