We spent a few hours at the Renegade Craft Fair today down at Los Angeles State Historic Park. Lots of great crafts from yarns, to papers to cards, to shirts to wallets and more. I especially loved these of anthropomorphized animals and more especially, the badger in the upper right.
Friday July 23, 2010 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm
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Gelato Bar
4342 1/2 Tujunga Blvd
Studio City, California 91604
Join us for coffees and casual conversation…and some cool, cool, gelato at the Gelato Bar in the Tujunga Village section of Studio City.
We sometimes hit Henry’s Tacos down the street for some more substantial food, too. Arrive early to check out the cheese shop across the street or have dinner at Vitellos.
Call 818-804-5049 if you need help locating us the evening of the event.
Van Nuys Cruise Night is back! Held the 2nd Wednesday of every month, cool rides cruise “The Boulevard” between Burbank and Oxnard then hang out near the corner.
Watch “Places LA: Van Nuys Cruise NIght” – iPod Ready Video
Risa Rosenthal, one of my fellow co-chairs at CareerCampSCV caught this great photo of me in a breakout session on Social Media.
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Here is a fill promo for CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley) happening July 10, 2010. You can sign up for your free tickets at http://careercampascv.wordpress.com.
Please share this promo with your friends and coworkers.
I hope to blog a bit while we are on our trip and share some photos and video with you. I like trying to capture little moments which give you some feeling of what it is like to be wherever we are.
While we haven’t yet left, through the wonders of Google Street View, I can give you a little picture of where we will be staying in the 3 towns we are visiting.
First, Beaufort House in Cardiff, Wales, UK…
Beaufort House sits on a long street filled with similar buildings. I describe it as a Victorian version of an Irvine sub division. it sits to the northwest of the Cardiff city center.
Abbey Rise B&B, Bath, UK
Byron Hotel, Bayswater, London, UK
I will be presenting the workshop below during the mLearnCon Conference in San Diego, California.
Audio Podcasting A to Z for Mobile Learning
Monday June 14, 2010 08:30 AM
Douglas E. Welch, The WelchWrite Company, Inc.
Podcasting is the epitome of m-Learning in that education and training can be “pulled” to your audience at the time and place of their choosing. While many organizations could provide educational, training, and informational content via Podcast, the subject just seems too complex and outside the “comfort zone.”
This workshop will demystify the subject, and provide participants with clear direction and guidance that will allow them to go home and get started. You will get step-by-step instructions on the design, development, and delivery of an audio Podcast, and explore recording software, microphones, and headsets as well as other equipment.
In this session, you will learn:
A thorough understanding of the structure of a Podcast
The Podcasting design process
The Podcasting production process
The Podcasting delivery process
The Podcasting distribution process
Audience: Participants at all levels who have general computer knowledge and a willingness to be recorded.
Technologies Discussed in This Session: Delivery platforms include the Web, iPhone, iPod, and CD or other portable media device.
I will also be presenting a current conference session on Tuesday, June 15 @ 230pm…
Mobile Audio Recording: Let Me Count the Ways
Tuesday June 15, 2010 02:30 PM
All too often, great content is “lost” simply because people don’t realize they can capture it. Now new mobile recording solutions make it possible to capture content “at the source” wherever and whenever it might appear. In the past, audio production, especially mobile audio production, was complicated and expensive. Today, new and inexpensive tools make high-quality audio recording available to everyone so that even the home/office user has access to technology that lets them create amazing audio presentations even while on the move. This session will open doors for those who have been considering mobile audio production, but haven’t yet taken the first step.
Session participants will explore the equipment and software available for mobile audio recording. You’ll learn about the reasonably priced or free software available for producing your recordings and how to use equipment like your iPhone or iPod Touch. You’ll learn how to capture audio with USB microphones or high-quality shotgun microphones used for film and television production, and even doing online recording via phone. You’ll learn the tools ranging from Audacity and Apple Garageband to ProTools.
In this session, you will learn:
* The wide variety of mobile audio recording options available
* The ease with which you can collect high-quality audio content
* How to use online recording and teleconference services to capture your audio
* The variety of inexpensive microphones available for specific uses
* About free audio software such as Audacity and Garageband
* Why you should be capturing audio at every event and opportunity
Audience: Novice. Very little previous knowledge of audio recording and production required.
Technologies discussed in this session: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Audacity free recording and mixing software, Apple Garageband, portable recorders such as the iRiver IFP-795, Zoom H2/H4, Edirol R09, iPhone/iPod Touch, cell phone, online recording systems, phone-based recording systems, teleconference systems like Talkshoe.com and BlogTalkRadio.com, a variety of microphones, and USB mixing boards.
While it was great to have family in town and show them around LA, it is nice to have a bit more peace and quiet at home so I can throw myself back into the world with vigor. The combination of CareerCampLA and the visit took my focus off of everything else I try to do on a daily and weekly basis.
LA Friday Coffee
On that note, I just scheduled this week’s LA Friday Coffee at Crepe Xpress here in Sherman Oaks. It is close to home for use, so that makes things easier, but it also has some really great food. I know you might assume this from its food court location, but it is really good…and not just Doug good either. Rosanne likes it a lot, too!
Join us this Friday for some coffee, crepes and casual conversation. Remember, this isn’t a tech meetup, per se. We talk about all sorts of things. This week is almost sure to include discussion of the new season of Dr. Who that premieres tonight on BBC America, the Apple iPad (with some hands-on at the Apple Store, perhaps), plans for summer and more.
CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley)
Hot on the heels of the tremendously successful CareerCampLA, a group is forming to organize CareerCampSCV (Santa Clarita Valley). Get in on the ground floor. Join the organizers mailing list. Check out the blog.
What’s happening in your world? Drop me a line in the comments or elsewhere and let me know!
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Tracy Pattin from The SizzleCaster sends along this video she shot at CareerCampLA 2010.
“Wow!”
That is the thought that has been with me since yesterday morning around 830am. People had started to arrive to check in for CareerCampLA 2010. it was really going to happen! After 3 months of preparation we were coming down to the wire.
For those of you who haven’t heard. CareerCampLA is “A FREE, hybrid conference/unconference dedicated to “helping you build the career you deserve”. The day will include scheduled speakers, ad hoc presentations and breakout sessions on all aspects of building your career. CareerCamp is for anyone who wants to build and/or improve their career.”
What this really means is an amazing group of people came together for 8 hours to present, to talk, to think, to grow and otherwise “Build the Career They Deserve.” Throughout the day I was amazed at what I was seeing and hearing. Conversation never stopped. There was never a lull in the low roar of talking in the lobby area we had set up. The breakout sessions were passionate, energetic and thoughtful. The speakers were insightful and in one case I saw tears in the eyes of someone emerging from a session to tell me how wonderful the last speaker had been.
The effusive thanks I, and the other organizers, received threatened to overwhelm me. All I could do was thank them in return for coming and helping to make the day a success. The truth is, as with any unconference, the quality of the experience is directly related to the quality, energy, knowledge and openness of the attendees. No amount of planning or preparation can make up for that. While I may have set the wheels in motion, it was truly they who made it the success it was.
Again, “WOW!”
I tend to be a worrier, so I had a few butterflies about how the day would proceed. Still, everything had come together do well that there was really little for me to worry about. Looking back, I knew the day was going well when I realized I couldn’t stop smiling. I haven’t seen a lot of pictures yet, but I am sure that I look like a grinning fool in most of them. There was no stress, no crises, no worries — the day simply proceeded logically from one point to another.
After having been involved in many projects in the past, including events similar to CareerCampLA, I must say that this has been the most amazing event I have ever worked on. My co-chairs, Jennifer Oliver O’Connell, Danielle Gruen and Susan M. Baker were, by far, the best team I have ever worked with. It is rare to be on a team without at least one squabble over something, but this team seemed hyper-focused on the end product and this allowed every bit of energy to be focused on making CareerCampLA the best conference possible. I would work (and plan on working with them again) in a heartbeat.
CareerCampLA Co-Chairs (L-R): Susan M. Baker, Jennifer Oliver O’Connell, Douglas E. Welch, Danielle Gruen
You know an event is going well when you are asked, “When will you be holding the next one?” I must have been asked this 10 times over the course of the day. Myself, I hadn’t even thought about another event. I was still so wrapped up in this one that I couldn’t even contemplate another. Then, of course, I didn’t want to jinx myself by assuming this one would be such a success that it would require a sequel. You don’t want to tempt fate. Still, in the back of my mind, I saw a future CareerCampLA and what it might be like.
That said — yes — I think there will be another CareerCampLA and, perhaps, CareerCamps in other parts of the country. There were several people interested in hosting CareerCamps in their areas and an overview of CareerCamp is being pitched to some other conferences as a possible presentation, to spread the word even farther. If CareerCampLA has value to people, I would love to see it spread far and wide. That would be the biggest mark of success I could hope for.
Third time, “Wow!”
So, what’s next? Well, I think the unconference concept is an amazingly powerful way of engaging people in discussion and sharing their expertise with others. There is an inherent energy in and unconference that many traditional conferences lack. It is often said that the best part of any conference are the accidental meeting and conversations that happen in the hallways, and the bars, after hours. An unconference seeks to capitalize on this by providing as many people as possible, as many chances as possible, to talk about what interests them most.
I have scribbled thoughts in my journal for unconferences topics including New Media like YouTube, Facebook, Podcasting, etc., Music and Songwriting, Outdoors and Nature, Sustainability, and even Gardening. There are committed groups of people forming around all these topics and they all interest me greatly.
Watch this space for announcements about our next, big, unconference adventure!
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