My 7 "take aways" from PubCampBoston 2010

NPR’s Sir Andy Carvin sorting out the sessions at the start of the day.

My one day in summer camp this year and I learned some things, 7 matter of fact. Over a 120 PubCampers converged at WGBH-Boston yesterday, Sat. August 21, 2010

1. Experienced my first unconference camp.  Like the evolve as you go style.  Check out the session notes here: http://wiki.publicmediacamp.org/PubCampBostonSessionNotes

2. Learned about three new gadgets from Adam Weiss - podcaster media man consultant .  (a) mic (Sennheiser MKE 400), (b) strap (BlackRapid.com), (c) LCD view finder (LCDVF).  To learn more about Adam: http://www.podcastconsultant.net/

3. Heard about PubCAMP Maine and signed up to lead a session there on Sept 7th on DSLR "Suitcase" Filmmaking.  http://wiki.publicmediacamp.org/PubCampMaineSessions

4. What the heck is “crowdsourcing beyond google maps”?  Now I have a clue.  See Andy Carvin's presentation from a different event in March, similar topic we discussed yesterday. http://tiny.cc/jezlo

5. Impressed that NPR has over 1.1 million Facebook fans, met the man behind the massive effort.  Again Andy Carvin.  Genius!  http://twitter.com/acarvin

6. Learned that Ben Franklin helped start the first public library in the US in Franklin MA. Thanks Steve Sherlock and nice hat! Check out Steve's PubCampBoston Recap -  http://steves2cents.blogspot.com/

7. There is a such thing as a "free lunch."  Kudos to WGBH and nice touch with that Ben and Jerry's iscream during the afternoon low.  Definitely was a picker upper.  Thanks Noah and your team!
     http://twitter.com/noahxu

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Hope to see you at the next Pub/Bar/Pod Camp!

Adam Weiss’ session on backpack media making.