Slide 9: Social Media Resources
Podcamp is a series of worldwide unconferences that teach and demonstrate the use of both social media concepts and tools through presentations, exhibits, and networking. Conferences are free or nominally priced.
LifeHacker is a web site with articles, tips and tricks, and forums describing the use of new media tools as well as other topics. Often articles contain step by step tutorials.
Chris Brogan is a community evangelist who seeks to help people find tools that have the best fit to their individual or organizational strategies. Chris frequently writes about new media topics, and speaks at events such as Podcamp and other conferences.
Geek News Central is a podcast largely exploring technology trends, news, and new media. The producer, Todd Cochrin, has written on podcasting and frequently speaks at industry and consumer conferences on the topic. The show is published twice per week, and Todd now podcasts full time as CEO of his Raw Voice organization. Todd has also helped in the past with publisizing accessibility issues surrounding technology.
New Comm Road is a podcast largely describing the use of new media tools. The content is somewhat geared to organizational use of social media, but can certainly be used for personal sites and personal positioning and branding on the web.
The New Media Expo is an annual professional oriented conference for both organizational and individual media content producers. This is perhaps the largest professional podcasting event bringing about 3,000 attendees to recent shows. While some members of the broad AT community have attended in the past, more recently, I am not sure that accessibility interests were either well (or even at all) represented at this mainstream trade show.
