It’s time for another New Media Cincinnati conference call!

Background

Putting together a New Media Cincinnati event each month takes up a lot of time. People come wanting to have a good time and meet people they’ve made connections with online. Those who attend often expect for there to be some sort of structured discussion – a topic or theme.

I decided some months ago that the New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday event will be a free (no admission), community-run event. In the beginning, I was able to plan, organize, run, and do the followup for the event.  Not so anymore.

Conference calls

In May 2009 I started conducting these conference calls for anyone in the community who wanted to participate.  These calls had two main purposes:

1. Provide feedback on the previous month’s event
2. Set expectations and discuss the upcoming event

As the group has matured, I find I’m relying more and more on help from the community to make this event happen each month.

Details

• When: Thursday, June 24, 2010 8-9 PM EDT
• http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/49025
• TalkShoe has a web client and downloadable software to text chat with others who are also on the call. Note that the web client does not work well in Google Chrome.
• Calling instructions:
  1. Dial: (724) 444-7444
  2. Enter: 49025 # (Call ID)
  3. Enter: 1 # (unless you already have a TalkShoe account associated with your phone)
• Possible items for discussion:
  • New Media Cincinnati in Northern Kentucky at Lazer Kraze this past month (seen this video?)
  • Podcamp Ohio/WordCamp Columbus (did you go?)
  • Venue change (we’re meeting at Molly Malone’s in Covington)
  • Steering Committee (ooh)

Catch you on Thursday night!

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In case you missed the planning conference call last Thursday, here is the audio. Great collaboration from everyone who stopped by.

Eventbrite event registration will be dropping in the next day.

This Thursday night, 8 PM – 9 PM EDT, at TalkShoe. No music, no filler. Just a nice community chat.

If you’re interested in helping make an April Second Saturday event happen, this is your time to show up.  Many of you have expressed some ideas on what can be done. This is the time I have available to discuss.

As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, this event will be community-run from now on.  You get to decide what happens. I’m taking a more advisory role for this event, based on some strong feedback I’ve received.

Phone call details:

• When: Thursday, March 31 April 1, 2010, 8-9 PM EDT
• Phone number: 724-444-7444 call ID: 49025
• Direct TalkShoe page: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/49025

Audio from this call will subsequently be posted over here within 1 day at newmediacincinnati.com

No one is currently up to provide a summary blog post as to what will be discussed. I won’t be able to do that. I’m open to giving someone a blog account so that he or she (or they) can blog about what was discussed.

Spread the word!

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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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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We had a good time chatting about the upcoming New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday. Direct download (mp3, 57:27, 52.5 MB).  Many thanks to all who participated live on the call, whether you were able to dial in or not.  Please check out the twitterstream from the chat.

Music

Special thanks to Dayton-area singer/songwriter and New Media Cincinnati friend Rich Palmer for giving permission to play his music. You can follow Rich on Twitter: @richpalmer.

• “Don’t Tell Me Any Lies” (unreleased, played through special permission)
• “Avatar Girl” (via Mevio’s Music Alley)

Bumper music used 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

• New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday for November 2009: November 14, 2009 from 4-7 PM at The Pub at Rookwood Mews. Details and RSVP coming shortly. This is the last meetup for 2009!
• Cincinnati Social Media group:
  • Check out the LinkedIn group and via prblog
  • Get on the Cincinnati Twitter List
• Cincinnati Women Bloggers: 4th Saturday of the month. Details coming soon at their website and via cinwomenblogger

Discussion

• Special thanks to Carole Hicks for the idea for having a simultaneous meetup at the recent SummitUp in Dayton. She set up the New Media Dayton twitter feed for news about the group.
• Bryan Suddith will be the host for the New Media Dayton event.
• Other chatroom/call participants:
  • Jeanne Bernish
  • Jeff Hertlein
  • Don Sceifers
  • Bill Green
  • Jim Sutter
  • Michelle Beckham
  • Chris Celek
  • Jim Farley
  • Jennifer Mitchell
  • Margo Rose
  • Vickie Sceifers
  • Sara Carbaugh
• Don Sceifers talked about how UStreaming of events has developed throughout 2009 to the quality it is now.  We have wireless microphones and portable speakers, and Don and Tom Rockhold have been doing a great job managing this aspect of Second Saturdays.
• October Second Saturday review:
  • Branding/ice-breaker exercise was well-received.
    • Name tag with a word you use to describe yourself
    • Smaller tags to write down words to describe others you’ve had conversations with
  • We were able to meet and talk with just about everyone
• November Second Saturday:
  • Twitter will be the main vehicle for communication (#newmediacincy, #NMD)
  • New Media Cincinnati will broadcast links to UStream to Twitter.
  • We will look for a link to what New Media Dayton will do.
  • Depending on the technology used, we might be able to “cohost” one another’s streams.
  • Don Sceifers is the point person for New Media Cincinnati UStream. Dylan Combs might also be a resource.
  • Topic – since this is the last meetup for 2009, we’ll be talking about
    • What we’ve learned in 2009
    • How we’ve changed in 2009
    • Everyone shared some really inspiring stories on the call
    • Looking forward to more on the 14th

Next Steps

• 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 last Second Saturday event for 2009 on November 14, 2009!
• 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 last New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday for 2009 will be on November 14, 2009. As mentioned earlier this week, we’re going to try a simulcast meetup with New Media Dayton.  Please contact me if you haven’t already and want to receive an e-mail invitation, once it’s available. Registration details will also be posted here soon.

Let’s do this community planning conference call thing again.   The call will take place this Thursday, November 5, 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 seventh time doing this as a community.

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

1. Discuss/review/feedback on the October Second Saturday event
2. Discuss/plan the November Second Saturday event

As with last month, 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 journeyinsidemymind DOT com with links where I could download your music, giving me permission to play it here and on that podcast, etc. Alternatively, you can use the Contact page for the Journey Inside My Mind program.

Final Thoughts

We’ve had a great year, and I look forward to hearing what you’ve learned. I’m especially excited to get the simulcast going with the folks from Dayton.  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 14th!

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We had a good time chatting about the upcoming New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday. Direct download (mp3, 53:39, 49.1 MB).  Many thanks to all who participated live on the call, whether you were able to dial in or not.  Please check out the twitterstream from the chat. Specific thanks to Daniel Lewis for being the cohost for the call.

Music

Special thanks to Cincinnati-rocker Kelly Richey for giving permission to play her music via Mevio’s Music Alley. You can follow Kelly on Twitter: @kellyrichey.

• “No More Lies”
• “Angela’s Song”
• “Run Like Hell”

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

Social Media Event Calendar

• New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday for October 2009: October 10, 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: 4th Saturday of the month. Details coming soon at their website and via cinwomenblogger

Background and History of New Media Cincinnati

• New Media Cincinnati began in October 2007 with a couple handfuls of people connected through Twitter and other social media. Many were podcasters and bloggers.
• The next New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday will be the tw0-year anniversary for the group!
• Over the past two years, the group has grown into a welcoming environment for others curious and interested in new and social media, as well as a time for people to learn new things about social media technologies.
• Types of structured discussions we’ve had in the past several months: social tagging, new media roundtables, Jolts, featured speakers, unconference, questions from a hat, iRiver introductions, etc.
• We have been able to “curate” and elevate the experience others have had from the event through the use of things like
  • live-tweeting with the #newmediacincy hashtag on Twitter
  • taking pictures and posting them online to Flickr and elsewhere
  • using UStream.tv to provide video
  • individuals blogging about their experiences from events
  • recorded audio podcasts

September 2009 Second Saturday Review

• The topic for the structured discussion was “Colleagues or Competitors?” Catch the recap with video from last month’s event.
• People come to events like this to meet others and build relationships. Business gets done outside of the group and is based on the relationships individuals have made themselves.

October 2009 Second Saturday Format

• It’s the 2-year birthday/anniversary of the group.
• Some ideas suggested:
  • A Halloween theme: what scares you about social media? (a twist on Questions from a Hat?)
  • Social tagging/personal branding ice breaker exercise (what we did in January)
  • Scavenger hunt ice breaker exercise
  • Discuss dynamics of connecting with people online and then meeting in-person

Next Steps

• Look for the Eventbrite invitations 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 on October 10, 2009.
• 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 will be on October 10, 2009.  Please contact me if you haven’t already and want to receive an e-mail invitation, once it’s available. Registration details will also be posted here soon.

Let’s do this community planning conference call thing again.   The call will take place this Thursday, October 1, 2009, at 8 PM EDT, 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 sixth time doing this as a community.

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

1. Discuss/review/feedback on the September Second Saturday event: Colleagues or Competitors?
2. Discuss/plan the October Second Saturday event

As with last month, 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 journeyinsidemymind DOT com with links where I could download your music, giving me permission to play it here and on that podcast, etc. Alternatively, you can use the Contact page for the Journey Inside My Mind program.

Final Thoughts

I love this community.  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 10th!

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