PodCamp Toronto 2009 – Bigger, Better?
I’m at the end of an exhausting but wonderful weekend. PodCamp Toronto 2009 was held over the last two days and, as an organizer, it was an immensely rewarding experience.
I’ll have posts on various topics from this year’s event throughout the week, so I’ll keep this post brief.
First, a few interesting points about PodCamp Toronto this year:
- More than double the size of PodCamp Toronto 2008 – between 500 and 600 people this year (over 500 confirmed)
- Top trending topic on Twitter on both days; pretty much all day Saturday (see below)
- Hundreds of photos posted on Flickr already
- For a short time, PodCamp Toronto was “bigger than Jesus” (hat tip to Bob Goyetche and Mark Blevis) at one point this weekend
My Presentations
I gave two presentations this weekend. One was planned in advance – thinking about and doing social media measurement takes up a good chunk of my time nowadays, so it made sense to talk about it and I signed-up to present on that several months ago.
My second session was a little more impromptu – I woke up on Sunday morning and decided I felt like presenting again, so I signed-up to host a session on the ethics of social media PR. Happily, both sessions were well-attended and well-received. The slides for each are embedded below.
I’ll have more thoughts, and a couple of interviews, from PodCamp Toronto over the next few days.
For now, if you went to PodCamp this weekend, what did you think? What was good/bad/indifferent?
