Here are some video comments I recorded in response the the reaction to this month’s New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday being monetized.

Audio and video are not well-synced, and that probably indicates I should stop trying to record directly from my webcam into YouTube.

Click here to watch the embedded video.

As mentioned in the video, I think the discussion on finding value is one we should continue to have and it will be the topic for next month’s Second Saturday event.

Some related posts worth checking out:

• Laura Fitton is right. PodCamp was never free. (christopherspenn.com)
• Finding Value (managingthegray.com)

Crossposted to danieljohnsonjr.com

• Anyone in community here familiar with Facebook application development? Need to ask question. #
• Six more Facebook fans needed before we reach 300! http://bit.ly/cjT4uS #
• Who will be the 300th fan? http://bit.ly/9yCWJf #
• Good morning! Looks like Eric Scherzinger was the 300th fan! Welcome Eric and everyone else to New Media… http://bit.ly/cc3vWo #
• @justinrains @mbdunnusa I think Twitter is a lot of different things to a lot of people, depending on how they use it. in reply to justinrains #
• Come to "March 2010 Planning Conference Call" Tomorrow from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm. For more information and details,… http://bit.ly/aT4jJo #
• Join us for the March Second Saturday Planning Conference Call: http://bit.ly/aLuYH0 http://bit.ly/acqblB #
• @VisualSemantics Second Saturday invitations will be emailed in the coming days. Add yourself to the list: http://budurl.com/NMCEmailSignup in reply to VisualSemantics #
• @VisualSemantics You're welcome to listen in on the planning (behind-the-scenes) call tonight. Details at the website. in reply to VisualSemantics #
• 3 and a half hrs until our "inside baseball" planning call. Dtls at the website #
• The call is now live! 724-444-7444 Call ID 49025 to call in. Jump in! The water's warm! http://bit.ly/cm7Sjx #
• Reviewing the February 2010 event on the planning call. Remember the buzz about Google Buzz? #newmediacincy #
• We are looking to borrow 2 mics for next Saturday's event. Get in touch with @drsceifers if you can help. #
• Trying some new things this month for the Second Saturday event. Check out this behind the scenes discussion: http://bit.ly/9bhk5U #
• Special thanks to @EJMDesigns for being a sponsor of next week's Second Saturday event! Eric is good people. #
• just verified we have @PubRookwood reserved for next week's #newmediacincy event. Working on getting invitations together to send out. #
• @udandi Yes, ironically. in reply to udandi #
• Good morning from beautiful Cincinnati! 50 degrees today! #
• Daniel Johnson Jr has shared: Foursquare networks into Cincinnati http://bit.ly/afsLRh #
• Nice article about foursquare's entry into Cincinnati: opportunities, cautions. Includes quotes from Kevin Ruiz,… http://bit.ly/dn5to6 #
• Will be pulling the trigger on Eventbrite invitations for Saturday in less than an hour. Are you on the list to… http://bit.ly/aO6FgC #
• Registration is now open for next Saturday's "Privacy in Social Media" event: http://bit.ly/cg0pft #

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New Media Cincinnati began in October 2007 as a simple meetup group of people in the Cincinnati, Dayton, and Northern Kentucky areas who were passionate about new and social media technologies like blogging, podcasting, Twitter, etc.

The group consists of people who are using new and social media for a living, but also includes people who are simply involved as a hobby. Anyone interested in learning more about these technologies and in connecting with others is welcome to attend. New Media Cincinnati has become, as one attendee remarked, “the premiere social networking event in the Greater Cincinnati area.” The group’s mission has grown to one of promoting digital literacy in our community.

People who come to New Media Cincinnati Second Saturdays

• make and foster business and personal connections with at least one other person,
• have face-to-face time with social media connections made online,
• learn from one another about social media technologies as we share best practices and other tips
• have the chance to talk about their own online presence
• have opportunities to share something they know with the rest of the group
• partake of food and drink and in general have a great time!

Connecting at New Media Cincinnati Second Saturdays has led to new business and employment for some.

Sponsors

This month’s New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday is being brought to you by Daniel Johnson, Jr., The Pub at Rookwood Mews, and EJM Designs, a web design and internet marketing company.  Follow Eric on Twitter (@ejmdesigns) and check out his blog at http://ejmdesigns.blogspot.com.

Special thanks to The Pub for their continued partnership and support of New Media Cincinnati in 2010; follow them on Twitter @PubRookwood.

If you or your company is interested in sponsoring New Media Cincinnati, please get in touch with Daniel Johnson, Jr. for details.

Topic: Privacy in Social Media

As a springboard from last month’s discussion about Google Buzz, as well as some other news over the past month about location-based social networking tools, this month we will have a panel discussion on Privacy in Social Media. We will have three panelists approach their use of social media with different levels of privacy.

As always, we will leave ample time for the open networking that so many of us enjoy.

Event Details

• Event Tags
  • Twitter: #newmediacincy
  • Elsewhere: newmediacincy
• Questions? Contact Daniel Johnson, Jr. via the Contact page or see below.

More about the New Media Cincinnati web presence can be found at the website.

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• Foursquare networks into Cincinnati (news.cincinnati.com)

Want to get a sneak peek at next week’s New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday event for March?

Tonight a handful of us got together on TalkShoe for the ninth New Media Cincinnati planning conference call for an “inside baseball” discussion to review the February event and discuss next weekend’s event for March.

Direct download link (mp3, 1:13:53, 67.6 MB)

Special thanks go out to Don, Mary Beth, Michelle, and Jim for your insights and thoughts!

Needs for March

We need help!!! We are going to set up a panel discussion and are looking to borrow 2 additional microphones. Please get in touch with Don Sceifers as soon as possible if you’re able to help.

Registration

You will be able to register for next weekend’s Second Saturday in the coming days. In the meantime, if you’d like to get an email invitation, you can add yourself to the NMC Email Signup list.

Music

Songs played:

• Drew LaPlante, “It All Comes Down To You”
• The Honneycombs, “Live a Little”

Do check out these artists’ websites and let them know you found out about them from New Media Cincinnati.

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Community Call – This Thursday Night

In case you weren’t aware, the next New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday for 2010 will be on March 13, 2010 back at The Pub at Rookwood. Tomorrow night we’re having another community planning conference call.

It’s a bit like inside baseball, or a behind-the-scenes look at how we make the Second Saturday events happen. We do this to review the previous month and help work out details related to the coming month’s event. This also gives members of the community to provide feedback.

This month’s Second Saturday topic: Privacy in Social Media

One hot button that came up from last month’s meeting, and still resounds in the social media community in general, is Privacy in Social Media.  To that end, I’ve assembled a panel of members in the New Media Cincinnati community who approach their use of social media with different degrees of privacy. More on that in the coming days.

Needs: In order to make sure each of the panelists can be heard at the event, we will need some extra microphones. If anyone would like to let us borrow one of theirs, please get in touch with Don Sceifers as soon as possible.

How to join the conference call

The call will take place this Thursday, March 4, 2010, at 8 PM EST, via TalkShoe.com. If you haven’t used TalkShoe before, I encourage you to check it out. Direct link to New Media Cincinnati Community Call.  In addition to calling in via phone, they have a web client that enables  chat.  I’ll use that to help moderate the call.  The call will be recorded and posted at the New Media Cincinnati website.  Here are some Step-by-Step instructions for setting up.

For those keeping score, this will be our ninth time doing this as a community.

How else to participate

As with previous months, in addition to the TalkShoe chat area, we’ll be paying attention to the Twitterstream. Should you wish to live-tweet the phone call on Thursday, we’re using the Twitter hashtag #newmediacincy.  One way to help with this is via Tweetchat.com. Here is the room we’ll be using:

http://tweetchat.com/room/newmediacincy

Simply log-in with your Twitter account and you’re good to go! Alternatively, you can just use the #newmediacincy hashtag when you update Twitter.

Local Musicians! Opportunity for Exposure

Adding local music in post-production to the audio has been widely received. If you are a local musician or band interested in getting some exposure for your music, please contact me via my podcast e-mail address: daniel AT newmediacincinnati DOT com with links where I could download your music, giving me permission to play it here and on that podcast, etc. Or use the Contact page.

Final Thoughts

This is sure to be a great discussion.  As I’ve said before, you all continue to inspire and encourage me. I so enjoy getting to know others who are passionate about this stuff and helping others to understand it better.  Together we’re spreading the word that Cincinnati is a social media town!

Catch you online, on the phone this Thursday, and in-person on the 13th!

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• Is your event social-media friendly? (trafcom.typepad.com)

When we met earlier this month, one of the things we talked about was Google Buzz.

Here’s a nice matrix that Jeremiah Owyang compiled to compare Google Buzz, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter:

Web Strategy Matrix: Google Buzz vs Facebook vs MySpace vs Twitter (Feb 2010)

… over here.

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• mixing down the New Media Cincinnati Feb planning call, with music from Cincinnati indie band, The Honnycombs #

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Last week we spent some time chatting about the upcoming New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday, which will be on February 13, 2010. Direct download (mp3, 57:27, 51.7 MB).  Many thanks to all who participated live on the call, whether you were able to dial in or not. We played music from local artists, recapped our time together in January, and discussed some ideas for the February event and some ways you might be able to participate.

Music

Special thanks to Michelle Beckham-Corbin for connecting us with The Honneycombs, another band from the Cincinnati area. I’ve enjoyed listening to their music in the background while working.  Check them out at the Leo Coffeehouse on March 7, 2010 for their CD release party.  With their permission, we played three of their songs:

• “Live a Little”
• “In Bed with Victor Hugo“
• “Big Magoo”

Bumper music used at the end is “Surf Babe” from Alamantra as found on Mevio’s Music Alley. Thanks again to them for letting us use their music on this program.

Social Media Event Calendar

• Breanna Gaddie keeps a great calendar of networking events on her Networking with Passion blog
• New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday for February 2010: February 13, 2009 from 4-7 PM at The Pub at Rookwood Mews. Details and RSVP coming shortly.
• Cincinnati Social Media group:
  • Check out the LinkedIn group and via prblog
  • Get on the Cincinnati Twitter List
• Cincinnati Women Bloggers: Check out their website and via cinwomenblogger

Discussion

• Don Sceifers joined me on the call and mentioned that it was useful to have Chad from Outerwoven present to bring the group up to speed on 2009 changes to the tax laws.
• Other chatroom/call participants:
  • Michelle Beckham
  • Christiaan Todd
• January Second Saturday:
  • We were definitely encouraged that so many people came out to the January Second Saturday event. Recap post: Seventy Social Networkers in a Patio at The Pub.
  • A great number of people had come to New Media Cincinnati for the first time.
• February Second Saturday:
  • Twitter will be the main vehicle for communication: #newmediacincy
  • New Media Cincinnati will broadcast links to UStream to Twitter.
  • Topic – we discussed a number of topic possibilities
    • Valentines Day theme – social media tools you love
    • Related: What’s on tap for you in 2010? What projects, tools, etc. are you passionate about in 2010 so far?
    • 5-minute JOLTs from different people
    • Questions from a Hat – questions organized by general topic beforehand
    • Some combination of the above
• It’s time to delegate more tasks to people interested in helping with the group.
  • Some ideas:
    • Guest hosts
    • Event check-in (nametags, etc.)
    • Setting up/tearing down/clean-up
    • Content curation (photography, other video, audio podcast posts)
    • Guest blogging at newmediacincinnati.com
  • Get in touch if you have strengths and desire in any of these areas to help out, or any other suggestions as to where you can contribute

Next Steps

• Sign up at the master list: http://budurl.com/NMCEmailSignup
• Look for the Eventbrite invitations for New Media Cincinnati via e-mail and at the website in the next day or so.
• Contact me if you’d like to be added to the list.
• Make plans to attend the next Second Saturday event for 2010 on February 13, 2010!
• Get ready for another great discussion and some great open networking.

[photo credit: Librarian by Day]

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Community Call – This Thursday Night

In case you weren’t aware, the next New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday for 2010 will be on February 13, 2009 back at The Pub at Rookwood. It’s been a couple months, so let’s do this community planning conference call thing again.

The call will take place this Thursday, January 28, 2009, at 8 PM EST, via TalkShoe.com. If you haven’t used TalkShoe before, I encourage you to check it out. Direct link to New Media Cincinnati Community Call.  In addition to calling in via phone, they have a web client that enables  chat.  I’ll use that to help moderate the call.  The call will be recorded and posted at the New Media Cincinnati website.  Here are some Step-by-Step instructions for setting up.

This will be our eighth time doing this as a community.

The purpose of this Thursday’s conference call is twofold:

1. Discuss/review/feedback on the January Second Saturday event
2. Discuss/plan the February Second Saturday event

As with previous months, we should live-tweet the phone call on Thursday, especially for those folks who are unable to make it.  Here’s the Tweetchat room we’ll be using:

http://tweetchat.com/room/newmediacincy

Simply log-in with your Twitter account and you’re good to go! Alternatively, you can just use the #newmediacincy hashtag when you update Twitter.

Local Musicians! Opportunity for Exposure

Adding local music in post-production to the audio has been widely received. If you are a local musician or band interested in getting some exposure for your music, please contact me via my podcast e-mail address: daniel AT newmediacincinnati DOT com with links where I could download your music, giving me permission to play it here and on that podcast, etc. Or use the Contact page.

Final Thoughts

2010 is off to a great start!  You all continue to inspire and encourage me. I so enjoy getting to know others who are passionate about this stuff and helping others to understand it better.  Together we’re spreading the word that Cincinnati is a social media town!

Catch you online, on the phone this Thursday, and in-person on the 13th!

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• Is your event social-media friendly? (trafcom.typepad.com)