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

Over the last few months, I have produced a videoblog called Portrait de blogueurs (loosly translated : Bloggers Profile), whose purpose is to present new blogs and bloggers. PodCamp Montreal’s organizing team asked me to do something similar with podcasters.

These videos will be posted on PodCamp Montreal’s website once a week (depending on many factors). This project should begin as soon as we’ve finalized the theme (images, music…) and compiled a list of podcasters to feature. It goes without saying that we’ll need your help! The podcaster will need to answer these three simple questions on camera :

1. What is your podcast about?
2. Why do you produce a podcast?
3. What do you do for a living?

Are you a podcaster?

Let us know if you’re interested in being featured in a small video promoting you and your podcast. For those of you who are no podcasters, fear not, we have a different mission for you : send us names of your favorite podcasters or show them this blogpost so that they can get a hold of me directly.

Contact me by email and mention the Podcasters Profile project in your subject line. The more videos we shoot, the more interesting the concept will be and the more new podcasts there will be to discover!

From the John & Yoko suite of the Queen Elisabeth hôtel, he talks about the cool stuff that may happen at PodCamp this year.

In this session, Katherine will self-indulgently examine her reluctant relationship with her niche podcast, her passion for the Palais Idéal of the Facteur Cheval, and explore the lessons you can learn from a French postman with a vision, and a knitting podcaster without one.

Katherine’s session is scheduled on Satuday at 13:00.

He can be heard regularly on Canadian Podcast Buffet and Just One More Book.

Producing and promoting a podcast is a lot like putting together an interlocking stone walkway : you need to make each piece fit, flow into the next piece and the end result should be attractive to use. It also takes a lot of hard work.

This session explores the decisions made (and the rationale behind them) in launching a niche-specific podcast for a non-technical audience, the evolution of the production and promotion of the podcast over a two-year period and how the audience grew from 20 to 2000 downloads a day.

Mark’s session is schedule on Saturday morning at 9:00.

Check out this website for more details starting next week (yeah, there will be a whole new layout, just give us a couple of days).

Podcamp Montréal 2008
September 20-21 2008
UQAM design Pavillion
1440 Sanguinet Street (Corner of Sainte-Catherine)

Stay tuned for all the details.