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PodCamp NYC This Week

It’s killing me that I’m not able to make it to PodCamp NYC this week. I booked early but with everything going down around the same time period, it’s virtually impossible to hop in the car and make the five hour drive to New York City for PodCamp.
Just knowing that Christopher S. Penn (Marketing Ninja), C.C. Chapman, Joseph Jaffe and eight hundred other passionate Podcasting people are descending on the Big Apple on April 7th, 2007 for what has become one of my favorite unconferences, is enough to make me nuts.
You can check out the schedule here: PodCamp NYC Schedule. I’m not even sure I could make a choice as to which sessions to attend – there are so many great ones. There are also some surefire parties, events and other usual PodCamp craziness going on (word is Uncle Seth will be doing impromptu acoustic sessions in the hallways and stuff).
So, if you are heading over to PodCamp NYC and were hoping that I would be delivering my Personal Branding session for Podcasters, please accept my apologies… I just can’t make it.
In the meantime, I’m getting my Technorati watchlist all set up for PodCamp NYC and, if anyone is interested, registration is still open.
I also just heard about PodCruise Miami. How tempting is that? A Podcasting unconference that is taking place on a cruise ship from Miami. I’m very seriously considering this. PodCruise Miami will be taking place on December 7th, 2007 (around the same time the snow starts falling in beautiful Montreal).
It is truly amazing to see how many people are getting self-organized around the concept of PodCamp and the spirit of unconferences. Currently on the PodCamp wiki there are fourteen upcoming PodCamps taking place all over the world.
Wow.
More info here: PodCamp, PodCruise Miami and PodCamp NYC.

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.