PodCamp

BlogOrlando 2008

ryanprice — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:58:38 -0700

Start: 09/25/2008 - 00:00

End: 09/27/2008 - 23:59

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

what: an unconference
when: September 25-27, 2008
where: Orlando, Florida
cost: free

tracks:
Journalism
Technology/Tools
Local/Community
New Media/Creative
Marketing/PR

The dates for the 2008 edition of BlogOrlando have been set, Sept 25-27th. Of course the big change is the main event is moving to a Saturday.

In the past I always debated about the Friday/Saturday thing, but this year we have some external forces....mainly the venue....we're just too big :-) In order to accommodate close to 300 people (like we had last year) we need to hold the event on Saturday.

Registration will be open shortly and we'll start to fill in the session leaders and schedule as well.

As I referenced in my previous post there will an invite only event on Thursday the 25th. The main event will kick-off Friday night with a reception and the full un-con and happy hour on Saturday.

If you're traveling in, then you can look to arrive on Friday and head back out on Sunday.

Of course we're always looking for sponsors to keep the event FREE. If you're interested let me know.

Florida Creatives

BarCampOrlando Downtown April 5th and 6th, 10AM - 6PM

ryanprice — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:35:00 -0700

BarCamp Orlando is a weekend for all types of creative folks to come together and share with each other. The event is dubbed an "unconference", a format which derives power from the people instead of the event organizers or the presenters. Everyone has an equal opportunity to get on stage and speak, teach or lead a discussion, playing off of the idea that at any given conference, the people in the audience have more knowledge collectively than the presenter(s) on stage.

This second installment of BarCamp will be held over 2 days, Saturday and Sunday, April 5th and 6th, in downtown Orlando at the Wall Street complex, from 10AM - 6PM each day. Registration is free, and a registration promises a shirt and lunch on the sponsors of BarCamp, businesses who are passionate about the technology and media communities of Central Florida.

Saturday is the designated "Dev Day", playing host to everything from web programming to robot building and video game development and everything in between. iPhone hackers, guys with soldering irons, the latest technologies, and plenty that haven't been realized yet. Every 30 minutes, both venues will have a different talk going on, so if you're feeling lost in the jargon, apply the "rule of 2 feet" and check out what's happening in the other room!

Sunday is dubbed "Media Day", and is the place for storytellers, journalists, writers, designers, filmmakers, musicians, 2D and 3D artists, podcasters, bloggers and social networkers to show off their work, share their tricks or talk about the state of the industry. From 12 to 1 we will be talking about the "Past, Present and Future of Media in Central Florida", hoping to give our community a sense of our story, and where we're headed.

Registration is free, and the event runs from 10AM - 6PM both days with a lunch break at 1PM. The event will be housed in Slingapour's and One-Eyed-Jack's, with Wall St Cantina acting as our "hallway". There will be projectors and microphones, chairs and a space to speak. All you have to do is write your name on the whiteboard and you get 20-25 minutes to share your passions with a group of energetic, engaged geeks and creatives. I would not use the words "captive audience" to describe the BarCamp crowd, because they all want to get involved.

Visit www.barcamporlando.org today and register for Dev Day, Media Day or both days. Wall Street Plaza is at 18 Wall Street Plaza, Orlando, FL 32801 - barcamporlando.org/where has a map to the venue and information about parking.

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Photos from New Media / Podcamp Event

ryanprice — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:38:00 -0700

Thanks to Jim Hathaway and Bill Couch for uploading these photos to our Florida Creatives Flickr Pool. I tagged a few of the pics with names in case you forgot, but I think you have to look at them on the actual Flickr page, so please do so.

Thanks to Redlight Redlight for hosting this event - even more thanks to everyone who showed up and especially those who invited a friend, even if you weren't able to make it down there yourself. Without you folks bringing in the fresh warm bodies, these events couldn't happen.

Also thanks to Jim for having his camera out at so many of our events. If we ever have a group historian, I'd like to nominate Jim.

P.S. as this is a slideshow of the entire photo pool, the first photos on the list will not always be from the New Media Think and Drink on January 5th, 2008 - but going to the group page and sifting through the archives will help.

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FL Creatives 11: Steve Weaver, Sonic Gumbo

ryanprice — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:27:00 -0700

Download Show 11
flcreatives_11_steveweaver.mp3
Length: 24:10

January 5th, 2008 saw the first New Media Think and Drink at Redlight Redlight in Winter Park. Host Ryan Price talks to Tampa DJ and podcast host Steve Weaver about his Sonic Gumbo podcast and some podcasts and services Steve likes.

Shameless Links:

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New Media ‘Think and Drink’ at Red Light, Red Light Saturday Jan 5th at 5:30pm

ryanprice — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:25:00 -0700

More than a year ago, I hatched an idea about uniting the creative communities around Florida under a common banner at a Creative Summit. We are much closer to such an event now, but still so far away. After doing a dance in several directions, we came up with a Think and Drink.

Event Info & RSVP

This Saturday at 5:30, local media producers will gather at Red Light Red Light in Winter Park (map) for perhaps the first event of its kind in Central Forida. 2008 will see the coming of age of many types of new media. Blogging will become a pre-teen; podcasting is no longer a toddler; YouTube even turns 3 this year. As we start to see the hardening and refactoring of several popular and useful services and standards, it becomes more important for the enthusiasts and early adopters to come together to get on common footing and think about the future of media.

Orlando's technology, media and other creative communities have been growing along side each other for the past few years in a collection of several small fast and focused movements. What better way to start a new year than with a gathering with the purpose of setting goals and recording the words of the trend-setters of our community.

We've been setting aside January 5th on our calendars for some time now as a day to share our thoughts and experiences with new media. In December, a few of us got together to discuss what we'd like to get out of a PodCamp or a New Media day. Everyone agreed we should plan to have a much larger and more ambitious event later in the year, perhaps this summer, but a small event would help us get a solid idea about what sorts of topics to discuss and how we sell the event to the community.

BarCamp was a great event that really brought a lot of the community out in force, but the focus on programming made the video people, the podcasters, the storytellers and the writers believe that we could have our own Unconference. Enter this PodCamp Party.

Be sure and hop on the Facebook Group and to add some of your favorite sites and links to the Ma.gnolia Bookmarks Group. We'll make it worth writing home about.

P.S. I'm also trying to plan a "Photowalk" at 3PM for all the photographers and people who might like to take a walk around Winter Park and grab some food before the Happy Hour. Reply via Facebook if you'd like to go.

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FLCreatives Podcast

ryanprice — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:51:57 -0700

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FLCreatives 17: Darren McDaniel

2008/05/31 Download Darren McDaniel

The Director of the Essence of Irwin and former Programming Director for the Downtown Media Arts Center joins Ryan Price for a discussion about his history and the journey of creating his film.

Darren is also working on a local startup company called Petentials: The Internet for Pets.

Florida Creatives on iTunes

FL Creatives 16: Women of BarCampOrlando

2008/04/06 Download Women of BarCampOrlando

Tisse, Katrina Priore, Dana Delapi and Becky Lane talk to Ryan Price during BarCamp Orlando 2008.

Florida Creatives on iTunes

FL Creatives 14: marc. with a c.

2008/02/16 Download marc with a c

marc. with a c. (aka Marc Sirdoreus) is someone I’ve been a friend of for the last 2+ years, and a fan of from the first moment I saw him play on the same day. I have had the honor of performing on stage with his band, but someone doesn’t really help Marc create something, as much as support his performance. The exception would be Chris Zabriskie, Marc’s creative other half (not appearing in this podcast). Listen in as I pay verbal homage to a good friend and a great contributor to Orlando’s independent music and ‘zine scene.
The following songs appear in this podcast:

* Classic Country Wasn't Multitracked in '61 (Normal Bias)
* Born Vintage (If Conditions Persist, I Will Resist)
* Bite Sized Help (This World is Scary as Fuck)

Shameless Links:
* marc. with a c. (official)
* marc. with a c. (myspace)
* marc. with a c. (thesixtyone)
* marc. with a c. (last.fm)
* Retro Low Fi
* Pop Means Cuddle
* The Zanzibar Lounge
* Florida Creatives on iTunes

FL Creatives 13: Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom

2008/02/11 Download monochrom

monochrom is an Austrian art-theory group with an international resume that makes me very jealous. I got the chance to sit down with Johannes Grenzfurthner and Evelyn Fürlinger over some Thai food and talk about some of his many achievements, as well as just talk with an intelligent and well-humored guy.
There are lots more show-notes necessary for this episode, but I don't have the time to sit and list all of the references we make. If someone is motivated and wants to help listing relevant websites, etc. I would appreciate it very much.

Catch some videos and other collected works of monochrom on boing boing.

FL Creatives 12: Steve Smith, Orlando Tech

2008/01/07 Download Steve Weaver

January 5th, 2008 saw the first New Media Think and Drink at Redlight Redlight in Winter Park. Host Ryan Price talks to Orlando radio personality and part-time podcasting teacher Steve Smith about the podcasting and New Media program at Orlando Tech at the Orlando Centroplex.
Shameless Links:

FL Creatives 11: Steve Weaver, Sonic Gumbo

2008/01/06 Download Steve Weaver

* Sonic Gumbo Podcast
* Podsafe Music Resources
* FLCreatives Wiki
* Florida Creatives on iTunes

Episode 10: BlogOrlando Reflection with Becky and Darren

2007/10/02 Download Becky and Darren

The 2nd Annual BlogOrlando unconference was a smashing success, and lots of Florida Creatives members participated or acted as discussion leaders. Ryan Price gets impressions from Becky Lane and Darren McDaniel about what they took away from the conference.

Florida Creatives would like to send huge thanks to Josh Hallet and all the event organizers and contributors for putting on BlogOrlando.

Becky works with educational theatre for elementary age kids, and Darren works on a social networking site, so the crossover between their jobs actually turned out some interesting points during the discussion. One example: there are kids’ social networks and moms’ social networks, but none really for moms (or dads) of kids who are using social networks.

Episode 09: Ella Music Festival

2007/09/06 Download ELLA Festival

The First Annual Ella Music Festival is happening on October 5th and 6th in the Rogers building in downtown Orlando. The festival celebrates female artists of all kinds, but certainly centers around a musical schedule. Robert Johnson and Jonathan Andrews of Gamble Records are organizing the festival, and Ryan Price talks to them about how they got into doing a festival and what their plans are.

Episode 08: Broken Speech Poetry Slam

2007/08/19 Download Poetry Slam

The Broken Speech Poetry Slam happens every Thursday night at Stardust Video & Coffee in Winter Park. The slam is now 6 years old, and is led by J. Bradley and hosted by Jelian Morales. The show gets started around 9 or 9:30, and promises something different every week.

Episode 07: Holly Riggs

2007/05/02 Download Holly Riggs

Holly Riggs is a spoken word artist, actor, producer, crafter and someone we want to pay attention to. Since this interview was recorded, she has left Orlando for Boston, and I interviewed her at her farewell party at Dandelion CommuniTEA. She talks about her company Starbananas and her label Nonsense Records.

Episode 06: Sticks of Fire

2007/03/22 Download Sticks of Fire

From the Tampa Blogger Meetup on February 27th at Hawk’s Neighborhood Grill in South Tampa, Ryan Price interviews Jim Johnson, Tommy “Beer” Duncan, Tim Burke, Lisa Ciurro, Matt Ragis and Joel Ramos from the Sticks of Fire blog.

Sticks of Fire is a blog about Tampa and the Bay Area by Tampa residents. I had the pleasure of getting to talk to most of the Sticks team about what they do on and off the web, and also about Florida Creatives. This is a dynamic group that should be paid attention to, and I hope to be able to come back to everyone I met at the Tampa Blogger Dinner and find out what they’re doing soon.

Episode 05: Tampa Blogger Dinner Pt 2

2007/03/21 Download Tampa Blogger Dinner

From the Tampa Blogger Meetup on February 27th at Hawk’s Neighborhood Grill in South Tampa, Ryan Price interviews Lisa Ciurro from Tampa Film Fan and Tampa Book Buzz, Derrick Daye from Branding Strategy Insider and Ryan from Groovr.com.

Lisa tells us about what she does, Derrick enlightens us with some branding knowledge, then Groovr Ryan tells us about moblogging. Florida Creatives Ryan then finishes off by bringing it all together.

Episode 04: Tampa Blogger Dinner Pt 1

2007/03/19 Download Tampa Blogger Dinner

From the Tampa Blogger Meetup on February 27th at Hawk’s Neighborhood Grill in South Tampa, Ryan Price interviews Kimberly Finn of the Tampa Downtown Partnership and Creative Tampa Bay and Eric Sturm of TampaOptions.com.

The conversation covers blogging, creative groups and the increasing trend to organizing those and other groups online. We have two more podcasts from the Blogger Dinner on the way, so stay dialed in for more blogger profiles and thoughts.

Episode 03: John Rife

2007/01/28 Download John Rife

John Rife joins Ryan Price to discuss the birth of Florida Creatives and the Creative Summit in Ryan’s kitchen, as well as talk about videoblogging and his past. John is very community minded, so we also get a healthy dose of where he sees Central Florida heading in the coming years.

Episode 02: Emurse.com, Alex and Gavin

2007/01/15 Download Emurse

Emurse.com is a website developed by two Floridians and UCF Grads with the idea of simplifying your job search. I had the privilege of meeting Gavin Hall and Alex Rudloff at this year’s BlogOrlando conference.

During this show we discuss not only Emurse (an anagram for “resume”) but what brought these serial entrepreneurs to start the site and what keeps them in Orlando when I’m sure they could write their own ticket in any major city.

Alex and Gavin are now active attendees of our Happy Hour, as evidenced here.

Shameless Links:

* Emurse.com
* Alex’s Blog
* Gavin’s Blog
* Orlando Coworking
* New Netscape

I wish these guys the best of luck in their quest to make your job search easier. I use the product and I have to say it works beautifully.

Update: right after this interview was posted, the boys rolled out a new feature on the Emurse blog that lets you search jobs relevant to you. They didn’t include it on the podcast because it wasn’t ready yet, but it is there now and very cool. Now you can post your resume and search for jobs inside Emurse. The job search has officially gotten easier.

Episode 01: Mark Baratelli

2006/12/06 Download Mark Baratelli

Mark Baratelli is a local podcaster, marketer, thespian, producer and an excellent first guest for our show. We begin by discussing his role as Social Media Coordinator for the 2007 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival, then move on to his current efforts.

Mark produces several podcasts:

* The Orlando Arts Podcast
* Lady Raptastic
* How Do You Feel?
* Vivian Beaumont and Vivian Beaumont

Another great way to get in touch with Mark is through his MySpace page. Enjoy our first podcast, recorded at Junior’s Diner in Winter Park.

Florida Creatives