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Podcamp Perth 2007 - 26th and 27th of October

Brian Madsen — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:24:27 GMT

Another awesome event is coming to perth - my spam filters caught this one and i only just saw it this morning.

But, as they say, better late than never.

thanks to Bronwen Clune, Rich Giles, Rene LeMerle, Myles Eftos for organising this event!

When: 26 & 27 Oct 2007
9am - 5pm
Where: Central TAFE140 Royal St, East Perth [Map]
Entry fee: Free!!!
Only 5 more sleeps

Register at: http://podcamp.pbwiki.com/perth07
Some of the (un)Keynotes:

“Why Podcasting is dead in the water”
Cameron Reilly, Founder and El Comandante of the world's first podcasting business: The Podcast Network

“Workflow, quality, metadata and the ABC”
Leslie Nassar, ex-ABC podcasting guru

“New Media Branding”
Duncan Riley, WA-based TechCrunch blogger and newmedia evangelist

“Your customers are your audience”
Nick Hodge, Professional Geek and Microsoft evangelist

“Social networks and the federal election”
Stilgherrian

A few pointers for those of you who may be (un)familiar with (un) conferences:

Remember PodCamp is your conference. There's plenty of open space and plenty of open times on the schedule, so make sure you make the most of it. We're all there to learn and help each other.
Have fun at PodCamp. New media is an exciting space to work or play in.
If you have a product or service avoid using Podcamp as a pitching platform. Blatant business promotions never go down well with the crowd.

T-shirts
We have a limited supply of Podcamp Perth T-shirts that are available on the day for $20 so make sure you bring money along for that, and get in early to purchase one.
Lunch
We plan on providing a free lunch thanks to the sponsors — it will be Pizza and Subway.
Royal Street Social
What's a Podcamp without a good amount of beer consumed afterwards? Since it is walking distance we'll head on down to the Royal Hotel, Royal Street, East Perth once sessions wrap up. Any money left over through sponsors will be used at the bar, but bring along some cash as well (can't guarantee what the bar tab will be).
What to bring
Bring along your laptops, ipods or zune, cameras, recorders — anything you can use to record and share the event (we'll have wifi). If you are presenting all the rooms we have at Central TAFE have projectors and screens, so you will just need to plugin your laptop. For those of you using Macs make sure you bring the little adapter thingie (if you don't have one I'm sure we can find a friendly Mac user who will share).
Sessions
We have a number of great people who are flying in to attend Podcamp and there are some awesome local peeps too. We have a main lecture hall, two smaller rooms and a meeting room to hold sessions. The hallways are there for you to use as well. Sessions last 45 minutes with 15 minutes break WELCOME and registration at 9pm First sessions kick off at 9.30pm
Birds of a Feather — Sunday
On Sunday there are some meetups organised round the city including a Geek on the Grass meetup at Kings Park for lunch — it's BYO and open to family and friends.
There's a Twitter meetup at the Belgian Beer cafe at 3pm. Add a meetup to the session — maybe you want to meetup with other web entrepreneurs, digital photographers, people in education or organise a meetup with one of the speakers. Add them to the wiki and we'll announce them on Sunday.
Lastly thanks to our Sponsors Microsoft, Australian Web Industry association Radharc, PerthNorg, iVinyl and Gooruze who have made Podcamp possible.

Port 80 (AWIA) Presentation - Microsoft Expressions Web - now podcasted

Brian Madsen — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:52:05 GMT

I'm not sure if everybody else hates the sound of their own voice when it's played back to them - but i definitely hate mine. My accent is TERRIBLE to say the least, almost unrecognisable as to origin (which i think in this case is a good thing).

Anyways, i did a short presentation for Port80, now known as Australian Web Industry Association (AWIA) www.webindustry.asn.au, on Microsoft Expressions Web. This was my first presentation for these guys and i was actually a little bit nervous - half expected them to mug me, considering that i was showing them a Microsoft product.

But they actually behaved really well - and Myles Eftos has just published the podcast from the presentation.

if you'd to listen to my presentation you can find the podcast here.

it's rather short, around 10 minutes.

Australian Web Industry Association - new site released

Brian Madsen — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:51:28 GMT

Finally, the AWIA website has been lauched. This also means that Port80 Inc. is renamed to AWIA instead.

Port80 will be the name of the forums, rather than the association.

Great work by Adryan Lynch, Myles Eftos and the rest of the committee for getting the association just this step further.

www.webindustry.asn.au

Goatlady (aka. Kay) shows some photos from the last port80 (AWIA) mini-talks.

Brian Madsen — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:52:33 GMT

Well, eventhough it was dark at the venue, Kay did seem to take some reasonably good shots (except she could have used a less "fat" one of me or at least airbrushed it a bit first).

http://goatlady.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/port80-perth-february-07/#comments

Port80 Expression Web Presentation...

Brian Madsen — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:01:00 GMT

Well, last wednesday i presented for Port80 (Australian Web Industry Association as it will soon be known as) on Expression Web, part of the Microsoft Expression Studio. Being that Port80 is pretty much a non-MS centric community it was good to get up...(read more)

Port80: Mini-talk and presentation night

Brian Madsen — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:45:00 GMT

Last night i was up in front of my peers at the Port80 Web Industry Association's monthly social night and presented on the Expression Studio - in particular Expression Web. The presentations are short, overview presentations and Myles himself also went...(read more)