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PodCamp North Hits Toronto

PodCamp North is making its debut in Toronto on February 24th – 25th, 2007 at Ryerson University.
I am still buzzing about PodCamp Boston which took place last month, so I immediately threw my hat in the ring to be an organizer for PodCamp North. As a first action item, I hit the phones today and secured some nice sponsorship bucks from BabyTEL (who are a Montreal-based VoIP company that is looking to suite together some packages specifically to help Podcasters) and Scotiabank on behalf of their just-launched Podcast, The Money Clip (note: both BabyTEL and Scotiabank are clients of Twist Image).It’s amazing to see these two companies step up right away and support – with cash – this kind of initiative.
We have a very strong organizing group for PodCamp North, but it takes one more major ingredient: You.
PodCamp is based on the BarCamp unconference, which means a wiki is set-up and the true guts of the event – the agenda – is setup by self-organizing. It is a free event, so don’t hesitate to sign-up. As of this posting, we’re closing in on the twenty-person mark and I don’t think we should be satisfied until we start hitting numbers that are closer to the two-hundred-person mark.
I will be presenting a session on your personal brand and how to make it shine to increase traffic and audience interest in your Podcast at PodCamp North.
Get self organizing here: PodCamp North – Toronto, Ontario.

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.