Final word on PodCampNYC (with pictures)

What happens when you get up at five in the morning, spend all day making new friends and catching up with old ones while gaining insight into the podcasting and social media universes, and then go out drinking with them after it’s all over? You end up making even more new friends, that’s what. And then you end up walking through snow flurries to Penn station and then try to figure out which train will actually get you back to Newark. I could have just cabbed it but I wasn’t going to pass on my first chance to walk through the snow in thirteen years. So what did I do? Grabbed my cell phone and started calling people back in Florida to tell them about it, that’s what. Until my hand went numb, that is, and I couldn’t grip the phone anymore. No, I’m not kidding. Thirty years in South Florida, what do you want?

Since my photos are already in Flickr, I think I’ll just point you in that direction instead of doing the resize/reformat/retag/reupload dance. You can check out iProng’s PodCampNYC set (17 photos) or the entire PodCampNYC pool taken by various attendees (a lot more than 17 photos!). I’ve also got plenty of video content, but that’ll have to wait until I can get home and make some sense of it. There’s some pretty serious, valuable video content on the camcorder right now, but we’ve also got the ladies from Uncle Seth taking a dance break, Chris Brogan emulating his Second Life character, and the remaining attendees having a beach ball party in the Grand Ballroom as the event closed out.

PodCampNYC organizer John C. Havens will be stopping by on iProng Radio this week to talk about how things went, for the benefit of those of you who were too far away to make it there. We’ll also have the musician interview with Augustana, so the episode should be nice and packed.

I’ll need some more time before I can formulate any real after-the-fact thoughts about the event (I’m still a thousand-some miles from home), but I will say that this event felt more like a new starting point than a culmination of things past. What exactly does that mean? You’re just gonna have to figure that out for yourselves