howard’s spot

Had to fire oof this post tonight on my great experience at PodCamp NYC today. As an online producer & marketer, my goal going to my first PodCamp was purely for the education. To see what others are doing in the space and explore how I might be able to make sound recommendations to my client(s) on how to best leverage blogs & webcasts in their campaigns. What I gleaned from PodCamp today however, was something completely different…

I was truly impressed by the collective energy at the show. Most notably, I was completely inspired by the amount of bloggers/casters out there who are so generous with their time & eager to share their experiences in the space. It didn’t matter what your background was, from musicians to lawyers to us agency folk…

I think it’s very interesting to note that Ann Marie Mathis and myself were 2 of only a very small handful of ad agency folks at the show. How can agencies be making sound recommendations to their clients without embracing and learning from this diverse and intelligent community?

I, for one, was so inspired by this that I’m making a mid-year resolution to blog much more and to possibly start a webcast myself. So far, as you can tell from my blog, I’ve not yet stuck my neck out too far. I’ve been apprehensive to write too much on any topic as I haven’t been confident enough in my expertise. What I’ve learned today is – “so what?”. Even if nobody reads/listens – what might be more important is the creation of a body of content that represents my thoughts… what I like… the value and experience that I bring to the forum. For me it’s also somewhat therapeutic to put my thoughts down. Why else would I be blabbering on about this at 1:30am on a Friday?

The net-net is that I’m gonna put myself out there, good-bad-otherwise and who knows, it might be sad, it might be funny, it might piss you off – but it’s mine. Let’s see what happens.