PodCamp Boston 2: Who I Met

Here are some of the people I met at PodCamp Boston 2. Fairly incomplete, I didn’t collect cards as actively as I should have, but, nonetheless, here are some of the people I met. I got this idea from Dave LaMorte, thank him for the format.

Here are the highlights:

Chris Brogan – http://chrisbrogan.com/ – Cofounder of PodCamp(s) in general. He worked really hard to make sure I had a session, and make sure I was actually enjoying myself at PodCamp Boston.

Mitch Joel – http://twistimage.com/ – I attended his session on Saturday about Tools of the Trade, and the next day, Hugh McGuire must have mentioned my name, and he began following me on Twitter. Amazing. Really amazing ideas about marketing and PR.

David LaMorte – http://davidlamorte.com/ – Runs the podcast “Teaching for the Future”. He sacrificed his session slot so that I could lead my teen podcasting session. He was a major participant in the discussion that took place in my session at PodCamp. Hopefully he and I will work together in the future.

Ann Bernard – http://whygosolo.com/ – She’s the CEO and Founder of startup Why Go Solo. She and I met on Pownce in July, and have been “powncing” back and forth for many months now. It was great to finally meet her.

Derrick Kwa - http://derrickkwa.blogspot.com/ – He was the only other teenager (I think) I met at PodCamp. He flew into Boston from Singapore all by himself, just to be at PodCamp. He came to my session on teen podcasting. It was really great to hear his ideas and opinions on teens, podcasting, blogging, and new media.

Bre Pettis – http://brepettis.com/ – Wow. I don’t even know what to say. Nice guy. It was amazing to see, and meet, Bre at podcamp. I’ve been a huge fan of his work with MAKE on the Weekend Projects podcast. Actually, at PodCamp, he and a bunch of friends created a website, http://lolsaur.com, got it dugg, and it was amazing to see all this evolve at PodCamp.

Hugh McGuire – http://hughmcguire.net/ – We met on Saturday at the High School Journalism Project session, and he attended my session on Teen Podcasting. Writer and founder of Librivox, he had amazing ideas about new media, podcasting, and education. He led a great session on how podcasting will save the world.

Whitney Hoffman – http://www.ldpodcast.com/ – As an organizer, Whitney was also vocal in finding me a session at PodCamp. She and I spoke a lot through email and right here on this blog, and it was great to meet her in person.

Steve Garfield – http://stevegarfield.com/ – We met in the food court at PodCamp. He knows so much about videoblogging and video in general. It was pure coincidence that we ran into each other, I’m a huge fan of his work.

Clarence Smith Jr. – http://doyouknowclarence.com/ – I met him in the food court at the event. Since then, he and I have been in touch via Twitter and AIM. He was amazed that I began podcasting at age 15. “Do you know Clarence?”

Anita Roy Dobbs – http://www.studioae.com/ – I met her at Hugh McGuire’s session on Sunday. She wanted to hear all about my experience with podcasting, and we, along with a few others, ate lunch together. She’s currently getting into video production, and working on Hugh’s website, Librivox.

David Tames – http://kino-eye.com/ – He paid for my lunch on Sunday! He was also impressed with my podcast. He, Anita, Andrew and I ate lunch together, and we had great discussions on politics, podcasting, and audio and video production.

Fred Munao – http://selectrecordsonline.com/ – He and I also met at Hugh’s session. He’s the president of Select Records, and had some thoughtful comments about new media and the record industry.

Adam Weiss – http://podcastconsultant.com/ – He introduced himself at the final closing “keynote” on Sunday. And, I really thank him for doing so.

Leslie Seifert – He led the session on High School Journalism. He’s working with the MIT Media Lab on teens and journalism. He also attended my session with a journalists point of view.

Maynard S. Clark – http://maynard.clark.googlepages.com/ – Another attendee to my session. He’s the director of the Vegetarian Resource Center. I don’t know really why he came to my session, but I’m glad he showed up! I guess he was just interested in teen podcasting.

Jesse Baer – http://digitalnative.org – From what I can tell, he’s doing amazing work with the Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society. We now follow each other on Twitter.

I think that’s it…Of course, I ran into and briefly spoke to many others, but these were the ones I actually had insightful conversation with. If I left you out, I’m sorry!