So without further ado (drum roll please!) we’re happy to announce the launch of the PodCamp movement’s first iPhone app … and it’s free! Big thanks go out to Ze Agence / ZeLaurent and his head developer, Thomas Dobranowski, for the pro-bono development of the PodCamp Montreal app.

Developed in record time (3 weeks!) the app allows you to:
• Read about the various sessions and find them on the schedule
• Find presentations by room, and by day
• Consult the speaker list and read their profiles
• iOS 3.1.3 compatible and available on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad

Dowload the fully bilingual PodCamp Montreal iPhone app today!

For this occasion, six braves will join break the ice at this first edition of what will become a long series of unconferences dedicated to all kinds of medias.

You can now see the schedule of the workshops, their subject and learn about the speakers by clicking here.

We will also take time at the end of the event to prepare, with this year participants, the MediaCamp Montreal 2011. Subscribe today!

If you want to give back as well as develop your network, we invite you to join our ranks by becoming a PodCamp Montreal 2010 volunteer.

Caroline Fontaine is back this year to coordinate our team of volunteers and our event logistics. Feel free to send her a note confirming your availability and contact information. She’ll followup with a schedule tailor made for you.

As was the case in previous years, we’re pleased to welcome students, who benefit from this rich networking experience, but we’re happy to have everyone who wants to contribute on board to help us make PodCamp a success.

Event partner / Gold sponsor : HKDP (the Quebec division of Hill & Knowlton)

Silver sponsors : Rogers, iWeb

Bronze sponsors : Marketwire, ARTV, Île Sans Fil

Media partners : Branchez Vous, MacQuébec

Friends of PodCamp : iTradeLive

…and we’re lucky enough to have other great companies finalizing their sponsorship plans as we speak (more on that later).

On behalf of my colleagues on the PodCamp Montreal organizing committee — Sylvain Grand’Maison, Laurent LaSalle and Laurent Maisonnave — I want to thank everyone who supports us in our endeavours. We’re thrilled to be able to bring PodCamp to Montreal for a third year running, and we’d be utterly lost without you.

Cheers!

If you wanted to speak this year but weren’t fast enough to submit your idea, be on the lookout on Twitter, where we’ll announce any opening spots that might occur in the near future.

Saturday September 11

Crédibilité(s): construction de l’autorité et de la notoriété dans les médias sociaux
Martin Lessard
L’industrie (renouvelée) de la musique : combattre le web par le web ?
Frédérick J. Fortin
Search & Social Media for Online Publishers
CT Moore
Les différentes formules de baladodiffusion au Québec
Laurent LaSalle
How to efficiently spark professional connections in the Arts
Raphael Ettore
Enfants pour l’Éducation
Félix Trépanier
Search vs. Social
Brian Rotsztein
La vie après le journalisme
Bruno Guglielminetti
Préparer un événement à l’aide des médiaux sociaux
Frédéric Harper
Revenue Generating Trends for Bloggers
Kim Vallee
Table ronde sur la production de contenu
Michel Coulombe , Felix Séguin, Jean-Francois Poulin
Twitpic, cuisine et alcool (ou @ThomaDaneau) : l’importance de l’autobranding
Thoma Daneau
The Art World Invades Social Media – How an artist and gallery owner makes the most of blogging, Facebook, and Twitter
Bettina Forget
Comment booster l’audience d’un blogue/podcast en utilisant les médias sociaux
Benoit Descary
To share or not to share. Exploration du Capital Social pour l’utilisation du marketing viral
Olivier Mermet
Going Against The Grain
Zeke
Le Dilemne Du Réseau
Sylvain Carle
Introduction à la création d’une communauté et d’une marque autour de soi
Kim Auclair

Sunday September 12

Podcasting is friggin’ bigger than Twitter. Now what?
Sylvain Grand’Maison
I want to pogne: bloguer en français ou en anglais?
Fanie Grégoire
Faut-il s’entêter à tout faire chez soi? L’expérience de communautés sans fil avec les nouveaux médias
Laurent Maisonnave et Dave G. Pelletier
Mieux comprendre ce qu’est le cyberterrorisme
Julie Horn
Questions ouvertes à Michelle Blanc
Michelle Blanc
Ces images qui mentent
Olivier Bruel
Un blogue, une entreprise?
Julia Vallelunga
Getting Students Engaged through Social Media?
Alexandre Enkerli
Aménager sa communauté
Nellie Brière
The Trust Agent
Julien Smith
WordPress pour Entreprises: Possibilités infinies?
Diane Bourque
Strategie média sociaux pour un événement de levée de fonds
Marie Annick Boisvert et Camille Desrosiers
Gérer son temps à travers les réseaux sociaux
Hicham Souilmi

The 2010 edition of the PodCamp Montreal will offer this year a second, new unconference. The first edition of the MediaCamp Montreal will be held on Friday September 10th!

The event will be held at the Cœur des sciences de l’UQAM and will be a new occasion for the industry to address actual challenges, in an informal and spontaneous context of an unconference.

Professionnal ethic, business models, new medias… no subject will be taboo. The workshop themes will be released very soon. But a particular attention will be on the web marketing, since new business models and financing is still a major concern for the media industry.

Reporters, citizens, business people, communications specialists, marketing professionals… every one is invited to talk about their opinions. Many experts will be at the event to moderate the discussions.

The organising committee

• Sylvain Carle: Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Praized Media, he is also President of the Internet Alliance. He is a new technology, social medias and networking applications passionate for more than 15 years now.
• Bruno Guglielminetti: Darector of numeric communications at National Public Relations, he was a radio director and techno specialist in the medias for more than 20 years. He wrote in many Montreal newspapers about new technologies.
• Mathieu Lavallee: business reporter for Lesaffaires.com, he had most of his career on a web environment. He is also a lawyer and largely uses the social medias for his work.
• PodCamp Montreal team to support the organization: Laurent Maisonnave, Sylvain Grand’Maison, Michelle Sullivan et Laurent LaSalle.

Contact Mathieu Lavallée to submit your session: mathieu.lavallee@transcontinental.ca.

The most interesting part is that everyone can present a workshop subject. An unconference is made by and for the participants.

If you wish to submit an idea, we recommand you to read first the rules of the PodCamp and what is an unconference.

The ticket for MediaCamp Montreal gives you free access to PodCamp. Subscribe now!

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Here’s the first video of the serie Podcasters profile, featuring Chris ‘Zeke’ Hand and his many podcasts.

By its very nature, the unconference will free you from this agony. The power of the conference is firmly placed in the hands of the attendees. An unconference is based on the principle that the sum of the expertise of the people in the audience is greater than the sum of expertise of the people on stage.

Here’s how the concept is interpreted in the case of a PodCamp :

Everyone is invited to present

If you dream of attending a conference on a specific subject that you’re passionate about, why not simply be the one to present it? You’re probably the best person to deliver a presentation on the subjects that interest you, so submit your workshop idea today.

Anyone can contribute to the discussion

An unconference speaker must be open to actively interacting with participants after an initial presentation. Traditionally, PodCamp sessions have a more rigid structure than at a BarCamp, the unconference model which inspired PodCamp. It is therefore appropriate to develop a theme or rely on visual support (ex : a projector) as needed.

Anyone can leave a workshop at anytime

Otherwise known as the “Law of Two Feet”, this principle gives total freedom to anyone who wishes to do so to leave a presentation if they lose interest or if it’s simply not for them.

Everyone is equal

Another fundamental rule of PodCamp is that “Everyone is a rockstar”. Since everyone is invited to speak at PodCamp, there is no special VIP treatment given to any speaker.

Nothing is carved in stone

PodCamp Montreal organizers try to make space available for impromptu sessions. Sometimes inspired by a workshop that has just been held, or simply a meeting of people with a shared interest, PodCamp participants tend to improvise workshops at the last minute. This practice is encouraged.

Conclusion

Even if the principle of an unconference could lead one to believe they are about to experience event anarchy, everything always unfolds in a manner that is respectful of the person having proposed and presented the subject. Since power is left in the hands of participants, the line “You Are PodCamp” is rich in meaning.