From a twitter comment by Anil Dash to a t-shirt and a flickr photo – where next? A movement? Maybe, if I new want it meant.
Tag: Social Networking
Podcamp comes to Birmingham
Laura Whitehead and John Buckley first alerted me to this free, international, podcasting, “unconference” being held in Birmingham at the beginning of September. Here’s the blurb – and please let me know if you’re coming:
In case you haven’t yet heard PodCamp UK is a FREE two-day event bringing all the excitement and ideas and energy of a PodCamp to the UK for the first time. This unique FREE event promises to be a brilliant mix of ideas, LIVE music, FREE food, great people and much more…
It’s being held at the New Technology Institute (NTI) on September 1/2 2007, in Birmingham – It’s only six weeks away!
PodCamps are meetups for anyone interested in New Media. The first PodCamp was held in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2006, and they are now spreading across the globe, enabling culture, commerce and connections.
The “Pod” in PodCamp comes from podcasting; but you can expect to find anyone at PodCamp, podcasters, video makers, software developers, entrepreneurs, journalists, musicians, social networkers, marketers, producers, publishers, PR firms, educators, actors, writers, boys, broadcasters, girls and Web 2.0 gurus, all using the internet to communicate with shared media.
Some are beginners, some are experts, but all are enthused by what they are doing, redefining the old media landscape and defining a brand new culture.
PodCamp UK is a free event, an open door on new media, organised by volunteers who have all experienced PodCamps elsewhere in the world. To pay for the venue for two days with food for all attendees, we now have sponsorship from UK businesses Cheeze, Podcast Nation, and Digital Central. Nick Saalfeld from Wells Park has very kindly offered to pick up the refreshments & Jeff Pulver has put a tab behind the bar for the Saturday night social.
Laura Whitehead, neil Emery and John Buckley first alerted me to this free, international, podcasting, unconference being hosted in Birmingham. Here’s the blurb:
This is a FIRST – media coverage is bound to increase as we draw nearer to the first weekend in September. Please contact us if you are interested in joining our sponsors, and helping to make PodCamp UK a truly special event.
Sign-up to attend : http://podcamp.pbwiki.com/PodCampUK
Visit the blog : http://podcamp.com
e-working John Lennon.
Steve Bridger and Ed Mitchell are to begin working on a major campaign about Darfur with Amnesty, Yoko Ono and the music of John Lennon.
The two are planning to extend the benefit of the immediate publicity hit of the Instant Karma album. Effectively whilst artists will re-work John Lennon’s music, Steve and Ed will e-work the buzz. As Ed describes it:
We are going to help them reach out across the big name social networks which are closest to the artists’ fan bases (and youtube and flickr of course). Our plan is to do it in a co-ordinated way, by finding people within those networks who relate to the cause, and are willing to represent Amnesty responsibly (we’ll call them ambassadors for now).
Having found them, we are going to ask them to assist with the Make Some Noise presence in their social networks – the theory being that in order to make this a sustainable community development exercise (and not just another viral-styled marketing campaign thundering through the social networks), people who are already in those networks are best placed to do this themselves – they know the who and the how, we can help with the what and the when. Also, once this wave of excitement is over, Amnesty still have a clear idea of who is who in which network, and those ambassadors become increasingly closer to the organisation.
Congrats both, keep us informed and thanks to David Wilcox – who knew about this before Ed blogged it, but ignored his old media instinct to publish, instead applying his socially networked new media instincts and waited.
technorati tags: john lennon darfur amnesty yoko ono
Greenpeace explains how Apple is at the core of its campaign
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Greenpeace have just popped this up on Youtube to show how they are still using Apple technology to keep in touch with Steve Jobs over their Greenmyapple campaign. Tom Dowdall, the web editor at Greenpeace International, has just e-mailed me to say they borrowed a headline from an earlier post on Podnosh for this detailed explanation of how the camapign integrated a wide range of social software to apply pressure, share ideas and untap the innovation of mac users. Good read. Nice job.
technorati tags: greenmyapple greenpeace apple mac activism