Podcamp Boston 3

I had been looking forward to Podcamp Boston 3 as soon as the dates were announced and planned on going to the Saturday session because of easy train access. However, when something else that I was REALLY looking forward to was planned for the same day, I had to bow out and thought that I would have to take a pass on PCB3. Luckily, things fell into place and at the last minute I ended up being able to take in the Sunday session. I so prefer public transportation but thanks to GPS and free parking I made the drive in to Boston. Despite tons of traffic getting out of there, it worked out ok.

The venue was beautiful (albiet more spread out than last year’s PCB2) and I immediately headed up to the 3rd floor for some coffee and to put down my bags and get a look at the schedule. I finally got to meet @DougH whom I’ve interacted with online for quite some time and was introduced to Steve Coulson of the Advanced Guard and YesButNoButYes fame while chatting with CC Chapman. Apparently, I made his day by raving about how much I love my daily visits to his site. I hung out by the Utterz booth and talked to them awhile and took home my very own Bessie :-).

When it was time to head down for the unkeynote, I settled in to the auditorium and stayed for David Fisher’s presentation on Advanced Audio Techniques, then CC’s Personal Branding session. Of course, it was nice to see old friends like Len Edgerly (even if we didn’t get lost together this year) and meet a some folks that I’ve only seen online on Twitter and Seesmic like @philcampbell, @chriscavs, @jeffhinz, (Mike) @istarman, (Sarah) @rojopelo, (Tracy) @tapps, (Dana) @wankergirl and many more. While I didn’t hang with those Seesmic folks and missed out on the Seesmic Session and the live Push My Follow recording it was still nice to meet face to face even briefly. I told myself before I got there that this year I would go up to people to introduce myself and I’m glad I did.

After hitting the food court and meeting Keith Burtis at lunch I took in Chris Brogan’s Social Media session then the Extreme Website Makeover with Chris Penn, Michele Wolverton, and Whitney Hoffman. I picked up some good tips in that one, specifically a site called Website Grader and the All in One SEO Pack plug-in for Wordpress. It’s not that I’m producing my content for business purposes but heck, if I’m going to do all the work it might as well be found!

While it was a relatively mellow podcamp for me, (compared to the highly social experience for many of the campers) it was nice, productive day which got my wheels spinning just in time for daily podcasts and training camp reports from Patriots Training Camp, which opens this Thursday, July 24th! I’ve still got lots to do before then but it was a most excellent weekend!

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