The best and worst of Podcast and New Media Expo
Thursday, October 4th, 2007You may have noticed I quickly dispensed with the daily play-by-play the the goings-on at the 2007 Podcast and New Media Expo; There were just too many things to do and not enough energy or time to detail them in daily postings. My buddy, Jason Van Orden, asks over at his blog, “What was your favorite part of the expo?”
I’ll go him one better… I’ll tell you the what I thought to be both the best and worst parts of the expo:
Best
- Susan Bratton’s session on attracting sponsors and advertisers
- Don McAllister’s session on screencasting
- Dinner at Rosa’s with Josh, John C. Havens, Paolo Tosolini, the guy with a British accent from Zimbabwe (?) and Jason & Melanie Van Orden
- Dinner at Joe’s Crab Shack with Michael Mennenga, Brian Brown, Dan Kuykendall, Chuck Tomasi and others (especially the Vulcan rite of passage using plastic crab knives.)
- Lunch at Lucille’s with Kris Smith, Jason & Melanie Van Orden, Matt Snodgrass, Craig Patchett, Stepan Masurov, Mark Chernesky, Randall Northcraft, Steve Fisher, Andy McCasky
- Talking with Molly Wood, Tom Merritt, Paul Colligan, Leesa Barnes and Tee Morris
- Meeting fans of The WordPress Podcast like Gregory Lemon and Betsy Flanagan, to name a few.
- Allison Sheridan being nice enough to share her EVDO connection with everyone when the WiFi gave out.
- Hanging out here and there with Jason White.
- Speaking on a panel at the Podango booth with Dan Kuykendall and Doug Kaye.
- Getting the chance to thank Tim Bourquin for his help in the past and for putting together a great expo.
Worst
- PodShow’s party, being shoulder-to-shoulder in a hotel suite being deafened by music I don’t care for.
- Not getting my business cards delivered in time from onemonthprints.com (and therefore having to be judicious in my distribution.)
- Missing the chance to speak at length with Leesa Barnes.
- Missing Jason’s pool party due to a misunderstanding of what time is was scheduled.
- Seeing Michael Geoghegan several times but never being able to introduce myself, either because he was busy or I was busy, etc.
- Seeing WordPress misspelled and mis-capitalized many, many times, most notably at Revver’s booth and site, when speaking of their new WordPress plugin.
- After a year’s worth of hype, and two chances to eat one, I never did get to eat an In-N-Out burger!
These three days were the most fun I’ve had all year! If I left you out, I assure you, it wasn’t intentional. Shoot me an e-mail or something and we’ll catch up!
BTW: I have some photos, but not as many as I’d hoped.
P.S. Some people might call this “name dropping” or “link-baiting”, I prefer to think of it as “link love”.