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PodCamp Is Overwhelming Me

PodCamp Boston is heading into the final day and, as you can see from my sparse postings, it is an overwhelming and fascinating event.
I have a handful of posts that I will Retro Blog (i.e. post date to when they were written) over the next couple of days, and this includes the upcoming episode of Six Pixels Of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast (which I hope to record either sometime tonight or tomorrow).
There are too many highlights from PodCamp to get into right now, but we did a very lively CarCast and I got the chance to finally meet C.C. Chapman in person and co-presented with him (even turned the classic Bob Marley tune, No Woman No Cry, into No C.C. Home Fry – inside joke).
There was also a brain melt moment when Uncle Seth performed and Steve Garfield posted it to his Video Blog. By the time the band had wiped the sweat from its brow, the Blog posting, Uncle Seth At PodCamp, was already live. So, we have Garfield shooting a video Blog and posting it live right away… the world is moving fast.
One of the big “light bulb moments” for me came early at PodCamp Day One. I normally get bored with the sessions and tend to thumb-away on my Blackberry. At PodCamp, I’m actually learning… a lot about how to create, grow my audience and a general better understanding of how to make Six Pixels Of Separation superior. It’s also given me some great ideas for newer Podcasts.
Yes, that was a tease.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.