Internet Tech Boston

Pod Camp Boston 4 Unconference

Last Saturday I attended Pod Camp Boston 4 in the Campus Center of UMass Boston – a great facility to have an unconference like PCB4. There were many folks there that I have grown to know and respect in the local social media and online technology community and it was great to catch up with them. I was also fortunate enough to be part of a panel discussion with Steve Garfield, Bob Collins, Skip Bensley, and Joselin Mane titled “Web Video: Where is it going and where will it end.”

I went to PCB4 armed with my FlipCam Ultra HD video recorder and captured some video of a couple of the sessions I attended, as well as the entire session on Online Video.

Enjoy!

Want more? Well, being a session on Online Video, there were plenty of video cameras. Here’s some video of the presenters doing their thing. Or, if you’d like some quiet time, below are the slides from our presentation as well.

The Power and Peril of Online Communities

This past Friday, August 7th, I went down to the main office of Communispace in Watertown, MA for another cool and exciting Social Media Breakfast (SMB). This was the 15th SMB in Boston organized by Bob Collins, and they just keep getting better. SMB15 was all about “The Power and Peril of Online Communities,” and presenters included:

• Bryan Person, Social media evangelist at LiveWorld and Founder of the Social Media Breakfast series that now features 28 chapters across the world.
• Rachel Happe, Principal at The Community Roundtable. Rachel’s talk on the “Community Maturity Model” was far and away the best presentation of the day, in my opinion.
• Diane Hessan, CEO of Communispace Corporation told a great story of the history of Communispace which was fun and engaging. She is clearly a tremendously capable leader, speaker, and expert in Online Communities. At the end of her presentation, you felt you knew her and her company like old friends.

I was armed with my trusty FlipCam and was able to record most of the event. Enjoy!