PodCampAZ 2008, Day 1

I had a great time at PodCampAZ 2008 today. I heard Jeremy Vaught, Lon Safko and Chris Perillo speak. Great job by all three. Chris Pirillo was particularly engaging. The guy really gets it and is damn entertaining too. Chris spoke a lot about Social Media and offered a lot of personal insights into his experience with it. He ended up filling in for the absent Giovannie Galluci, and gave a presentation about using social media for non-profits. He also talked a bit about FriendFeed, which I'm not currently using. I need to check that out. Lon Safko's presentation was more of a social media primer but I did pick up some valuable insights from his as well. For example, he talked about exploiting degrees of separation in LinkedIN by getting a friend to contact a friend who knows a friend. Jeremy Vaught was a little unprepared but did a good job at sharing his personal experience with social media.

It was great catching up with new and old friends as well as putting faces and handshakes to many people I know through Twitter or Facebook. I'm looking forward to meeting a few more tomorrow that I didn't get to talk to today.

Comments

[Lon Safko]

Hey Marvin… Great to meet there at Podcamp and thanx for the kind words. We’ve only just begun discovering the many ways to use each social media tool… Then when we figure out how to combine the different tools together…! Lon