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Jill Foster s DNC Reporting Map Jill Foster s work/life map: I had a blast visually facilitating a conversation with Jill Foster yesterday. First we had a conversation about her life/work goals and projects. Then we focused in depth on her objectives for her upcoming reporting gig at the Democratic National Convention. Basically I asked her to spill what was on her mind and I drew the images above as we talked. Yes, I love doing visual facilitation: It combines my interviewing, analytical, and drawing skills in a way that helps people get their thoughts out of their heads where they can see patterns, gain insight, and make better decisions. Jill and I talked about experience right afterward. You can listen to our conversation below. The quote from Jill that stood out the most for me: I really gained a lot from externalizing everything, seeing where different projects intersect. Andy Carvin, the Senior Product Manager for Online Communities at NPR opined Love this pic Anyone planning to do citizen journalism from the DNC or RNC should plan like this. On Monday I am doing another visual facilitation session with someone else who is trying to sort out her career path. Very exciting. If you want to find out more about about what visual facilitation is and how it can help you, drop me a line at jonny(dot)goldstein@gmail.com or give me a call at 646-209-7204 and I would be happy to answer any of your questions.

Andy Carvin shot this video of me at NPR s HQ giving a presentation about using Mogulus for live interactive streaming video. I gave the talk as part of DC Media Makers monthly events. The second half of the video shows Andy talking about NPR s user submitted political opinion site GetMyVote.org Big thanks to Jill Foster for organizing this event.

Big ups to everyone who made Blog Potomac rock.

Kendesi Mohammed and I met at Busboys and Poets a couple of weeks ago and we have been keeping in touch since then. Kendesi is a DC based video producer and club mogul. He helps throw parties and promote up and coming spoken word, rap, music, and modeling talent. We hit on the idea of throwing a happy hour event where we show emerging artists and entrepreneurs how to promote themselves and connect to audiences via social media. Stay tuned! It s going to rock.

Kendesi Mohammed is a DC area owner of an urban marketing firm. He makes it his mission to help local talent build their reputation and commercial presence online. Besides helping up and coming artists, Kendesi helps promoters from DC s biggest clubs by creating videos from their events. You can check out his work at KendesiTV.com We met in line at the Busboys Poets Tuesday night spoken word event. He was there to support some friends of his who were performing, including spoken word artist Rhyme Cypha.

To watch the show CLICK HERE Come Par-tay with Shireen Mitchell (digitalsista on twitter), the founder and director of Digital Sisters, a DC based nonprofit which promotes and provides tech education and enrichment for women and their children who are traditionally underserved. We are going to look at how gender, class, and color factor into the digital divide, why we should care, and what we can do to create a society where the benefits of technological literacy are available to all. Shireen has been a geek since back in the Atari days, learning to program at age 14 and never looking back. She uses her powers for good, speaking, writing, teaching, and leading: all with the goal of helping women from underserved communities and their families reap the benefits of technology. Par-tay Bonus: We will also unveil, the Jonny s Par-tay theme rap in all it s lyrical splendor. Super Double Par-tay Bonus: We will introduce our first Jonny s Par-tay contest. The prize, a collectible mimobot a designer collectible USB flash drive. Remember when I said that I would try to make the world a better place for puppies and children? This contest is where I try to tackle the puppies part. Here are the rules: Jonny s Par-tay Adopt a Puppy at Your Local Shelter Haiku Contest, Here s how you participate: Just write an original haiku. Remember those poems you wrote in 5th grade? Yeah, one of those. It must have the word Puppy and Shelter in it, and encourage people to adopt a puppy from a shelter. Then you need to record yourself reciting the haiku onto utterz.com. Utterz is a free service which lets you record audio from your phone to the web. Once you have written the poem, send me an email at jonny.goldstein@gmail(dot)com by Sunday, May 18, 10PM Eastern. Here is my sample adopt a puppy haiku: Here is my sample haiku: Puppies are four legged/joy dispensers, find delight/at local shelter Listen to it here: A haiku is simply a 3 line poem with this structure: 1st line: 5 syllables 2nd line: 7 syllables 3d line: 5 syllables. Be sure to email me at jonny.goldstein@gmail.com to send me the link to your poem by 10PM Eastern, Sunday, May 18. People will vote on their favorite poems on the jonnyspartay.com website until 5 PM Eastern Wednesday, May 21. The winner will receive a designer collectible USB flash drive generously donated by the fine folks at mimoco.com The winner will be announced on this coming Wednesday s, May 21, show. And if you write and record a haiku to utterz and email me the link at jonny.goldstein@gmail(dot)com by Sunday, May 19, 10PM Eastern, I will link to your haiku whether your haiku is selected as the winner or not. Thanks for participating! And thanks for helping raise awareness around the issue of puppy adoption from shelters. What: Jonny’s Par-tay, the interactive online TV talk show, with featured guest Shireen Mitchell, host Jonny Goldstein, super-producer Scott Stead. and of course our most important guests, you. When: Weds, May 14, 9-10PM Eastern. Where: jonnyspartay.com Interactivity: As always, you are invited to text chat us and each other live. It’s a Par-tay!

Below are my rough notes from some of the PodCampNYC 2.0 sessions I participated in. I hope folks who were not able to attend these sessions find these notes helpful. Note: these were created on the fly and niceties of punctuation, grammar and spelling are not always observed. Here are links to notes for individual sessions: Using widgets and social media to market events, generate sales and stimulate sign-ups Social Contests and Exponential Growth Securing a Sponsor for Your New Media in the New Media Space Audio Production 101 The Haiku Project: Using Mobile Phones For Community Creativity Using widgets and social media to market events, generate sales and stimulate sign-ups Presenter: Ben Kartzman CEO of spongecell. Here is a brief audio interview I did with Ben about spongecell: And here my the text notes from the session: Point of the session: using widgets to drive attention to whatever. The point of widget is to take content and move content across the web. Going to talk about widgets as something that can be built on one site and moved to multiple sites. Examples from audience of widgets: -youtube rss feed widget -utterz listen/watch audio/video posted from mobile phones) -ChipIn Donation widget. Makes it easier for nonprofit to focus on their mission instead of how to process donations. Whatever widget you want to build depends how you want it to live in blogs, opensocial, facebook. How widgets can be used to market better: Example: Fox WFXG community events widget. Event widget content all about marketing getting people to get off the web, or to go to a particular and go to an event. Getting people to ACT. Spongecell, easy for consumer and promoter. Make it easy for your fans to pull that info into their lives (Outlook, Facebook, etc). Question about data privacy: Can we grab peoples data using spongecell? Answer: No. Don t want to break trust w/users. Social Contests and Exponential Growth Jeremy Johnson from zinch.com Jeremy showed a case study of a contest for college scholarships that increased unique visitors to the Zinch site from 100K to 500K unique visitors over the course of 30 days. 100 or so students were selected by Zinch out of thousands who wanted to compete in the contest for scholarships. It worked like the NCAA basketball tournament with individual student against individual student. The winner would move up. This continued until there was one winner. The competition occurred over the same time period at the NCAA tournament, to piggyback of of the interest in the basketball frenzy. Registered users of zinch worth 2 points. Casual voters votes worth 1 point. Many people joined zinch to make their votes count more. Direct competition worked well-one student against another. Real time vote tally made it public. What do they use to broadcast? We can know everything about a demographic, but we will never know how to use these social media sites as well as the kids. They promoted the competition better than zinch ever could alone. Goal in creating competition creating a platform for other people to get really involved. What motivates people prize, or prestige . Zinch seeded them with ideas about how to get their campaign going. In zinch s contest, students used social media to solicit votes. For the students: Facebook groups massively important, myspace slightly less, youtube videos important. Articles in local newspapers Note: another successful contest: The BigShotLive.com 600000 uniques a day. It s a talent contest. People upload videos of them displaying their talent. Winner gets to go to hollywood and get coached on their talent. Friends and family want to promote their kids with talent. Securing a Sponsor for Your New Media in the New Media Space Presenters: Todd Cochrane and Jeff Hinz. Note: This session was focused specifically on podcasting, not new media in general. A lot of the advice seems transferable to other new media projects though. Question: Should I even try to get a sponsor? A: It is not for everyone Question: What s your content: Adult or general? If it s adult, that s going to narrow your choice of possible sponsors. Consistency of your podcast: Daily? Weekly? Monthly? Whatever it is, it s got to be consistent. Sponsor going to expect X amount of ad runs per time period. Your website: Is it just a blog? Or is it a branded nice looking website? It s important to have a nice looking website. Your RSS Feed: it needs to validate and needs to be getting updated into iTunes feedvalidator.com to check this. Finding advertisers: On your own. You keep all the sponsorship. Or use a network. It s hit or miss. Maybe best strategy is to do both. Media kit: Should contain: Who you are Who your audience is set up a survey age m/f, profession track record I ve done X shows. How much money can you expect? Is your audience niche? A niche audience is an easier sell to a sponsor who supplies that niche. CPM based buys. CPA cost per acquisition (only payed if people buy) Proposal: advertisers are going to want a writter proposal. What are they going to get (banner ad, text link, etc.) Must get a signed contract. You have to be a salesman. You have to get behind that sponsor as best you can. If it s a company you can t stand behind, then it s no deal. Want to be excited .Biggest problem, hosts not being passionate about sponsor an not selling. Do you go to company X directly or go to company X s agency? It s easier to go directly to a client. Execution, execution, execution. Do everything you agree to do. If you do, they will very likely renew. Report give them stats. best if they can log in and check it out. be prepaared to give them feedback on a weekly basis. Suggestion from the audience: businessstat: it s 20$ a month for good stats. Engage your audience in relationship to your sponsor. Build it into the conversation. Roadblocks: Show s too small website doesn t look good Make sure the content looks good Don t over report!!! Meaning, don t say you have more listeners than you actually do. Example: you say you have 20,000 listeners and 500 of them take action (e.g. click on a link to the sponsors website from your website). That s 2.5% of your audience taking action. But if you say you have 5,000 listeners and 500 people take action that means 10% of your audience takes action. That s more impressive. Be accurate. Don t over report, don t under report. Jeff is a media buyer. The biggest hurdle is a media buyer. Difficult for buyer to recommend a podcast. A lot of clients don t want to be associated with User generated content. Do you have a valuable audience? Does your audience take action when you tell them to? Is it a unique show? Is it a digital media buy or a radio buy. A lot of radio buyers would love to buy podcasts and they d buy it as if it s a radio spot. The digital buyers compare it to a banner buy they are confused. Most of the media buyers are 25-26 year old kids. If you treat it like a business and speak to them about topics you are passionate about. What the ROI, can you increase sales? Can you get them to sign up for stuff? This is why I m good. This is what I m good at. This is why I m unique. Comic book podcasts connect w/comic book publishers. Get involved in an affiliate program. It s OK to choose not to pursue sponsorship. Then it s a hobby. Nothing wrong with that. A big thing is educating clients. They know radio, tv, billboards, but they tend not to understand podcasts and takes work to get them to allocate $. Some big players are doing great, like Proctor and Gamble and godaddy. But most big potential sponsors are not. Educate them about how your going to motivate your audience and keep that relationship over time. Educate them about the fact is that it s archived and their brand will be out there for a long time. Minimum of 6 weeks for a sponsor. A full quarter even better for them to see results from your podcast. If they just want to sponsor you for a week or two or three, forget it. That is an unrealistically short time frame for them to see results. - Audio Production 101 Presenter: Matt Ebel Editorial presenter: Matt is a suburb presenter and his music rocks. To listen to some of his tunes, check here. Good audio does not mean filtering audio in your editing program after your recording. Good audio starts with recording well. Clear your room. Isolate yourself. Eliminate the competition. Turn off your cell phone. Turn off noisemakers dishwasher, AC unit, laundry machine Roomates and pets Late night is good -let s people moving around using the bathroom etc. Seal yourself into a padded room. Pillow, blanket, towel plug under door. If you start to overheat, take a break, open the door, turn on the AC and then start again once it s cooled off. Use a long cable and put your pc in a the closet. Use wireless mouse and keyboard. Sound bounce=flutter echo, they bounce around and it your mic over and over again generally bad. Two ways to stop the bounce 1) Absorption. ( soft surfaces) and 2) Diffusion (hard, irregular surfaces) breaks the sound up. Absorption: Auralex acoustic foam. 1 inch pyramid foam is good. Egg crate mattress pad at wal mart (cheaper) A tapestry,a blanket looks nice. Anything textured and soft works. Rug Diffusion. Auralex panels. Science panel -looks better. or you could make it. Or a bookshelf with different sized mixed up books. Anything that s not flat. _________ How many flat surfaces do you treat? Vocal booth, drum room cover most all flat surfaces. Broadcast not so much. maybe 50-70% Cover the area facing your face. auralex.com/pcf You fill out the form and send it to auralex and they send you your recommendation. Then you can place your alternative materials there instead of using their product, or use their product. Next -Plug stuff in. Knowing which mic you need. 2 kinds of mic dynamic (cheaper, less sensitive, doesn t need power) and condenser (more expensive, more accurate (sensitive) Studio night goal is to make it seem like you are in the room. pick up all the frequencies. a better net to catch more sound. diff mics have diff pickup pattern. Cardioid. Omni directional. Figure 8 pattten good for an interview w/one other person. sm58 designed to pick up the human vocal range right in front of it. Ok, for solo podcasting. nt1a, nt2a (about 250$) diff pickup patterns. needs soundboard w/phantom power. Blue snowball. condenser mic. good rich sound. cardioid or omni. usb mic. powered by the USB mic. Rode podcaster large diaphragm dynamic mic. cardioid. _________________ POINT THE MIC AT YOUR MOUTH!!!!! Prentent it s a laser pointer directed at your uvula. Diff mics listen in diff direction. Be scientific and record this is my mouth at 1 inch. this is my pout at 2inches etc. and pic the best one. _____________________ Plosive shield. Wire coat hanger and nylon pantyhose on a hoop and a goose neck to hold it in place rule of thumb halfway between your mic and your mouth. be scientific and test where it should go. ______________________ Notes about posture. The better you breath the better you sound. Imagine a cable on sternum and cable on your tail pulling pulling opposite directions. Do not SHOUT (unless sound horrible is your schtick). makes your voice tired, and picks up annoying frequencies. ________________________ Setting up the mic. cell phone electromag interference. turn it off. keep at least 4 feet from sound equipment if you need it on. ___________________ Interface USB microphones. If you are using a handheld recorder, the digital recorder zoom H4 highly recommended. mxl mic mate converts xlr-to usb and powers condensers via the usb. The Haiku Project: Using Mobile Phones For Community Creativity Presenter, Jonny Goldstein (yeah, that s me). The Haiku Project was something Jonny started as an experiment to see what would happen if he asked people in his online social networks to write and record original haiku poems to the web using their cell phones and the service, Utterz. Why haikus? Most people in the United States who have gone through school in the last couple of decades are familiar with haikus. Haikus are accessible, don t take a big time commitment, yet can contain great creative depth and emotional range. Promotion: Jonny s blog, Twitter, and Utterz. Duration of project: The month of February, 2008. It s good for the creator to participate in the project if she/he is going to ask other people to take part. If you invest your time, better chance others will too. Initially asked people to add the tag haikuproject to their submissions, but compliance was low, so then just asked people to have the word haiku in the title. That worked better. Used the mobile phone multimedia blogging service Utterz.com for people to record their poems from their phones. Results: at least 14 people submitted a total of over 40 poems which were listened to hundreds of times. Also, as a result of the project, Jonny was featured in a Washington City Paper article about DC area haikuists. Question from audience: How to create a geographically specific contest like this? Not sure. Finally we recorded a brief collaborative story at the end of the workshop to demo using a cell phone for a group creative audio-project. More info about the Haiku Project here. I hope these notes are helpful. If you have any questions, shoot me an email at jonny (dot) goldstein (at) gmail.com.

Check out the show HERE Join us this Weds, April 9, 9PM EST, as DocPop (AKA Doctor Popular AKA Drown Radio) is drops his new nerdcore album Me Geek Pretty One Day on Jonny s Par-tay. Tracks like LolCats and Gygax will send you into a spiral of geekgastic ecstasy DocPop is the kind of guest we at the Par-tay like to associate ourselves with. When not rocking the nerdcore music world he is dazzles the masses with his amazing yoyo stylings DocPop is Earth s 3d ranked yoyoist. Doc is an artiste and a renaissance geek of the highest order. Like all HipHop moguls, he has his own line of accessories His hand crafted iPod cases fly off the shelves at his etsy store. To find out more about DocPop, check out the DocPop portal at DocPop.org (Above) DocPop s producer skills at work in the now classic Vlog Death Match video featuring MC Slutsky DocPop s yoyo stylings (above) So come Par-tay with us! Here s the details: What: A live online interactive video free for all with Doc Pop, hosted by Jonny Goldstein, and served up with flavor by Scott Stead. Plus, special bonus guest Schlomo Rabinowitz, enabler to the stars. When: 9-10 PM EST, Weds, April 9 Where: www.jonnyspartay.com Why: This is your chance to par-tay with nerdcore star, world third ranked yoyoist, fashion icon, comic book artist DocPop. Need I say more? Be there!

Join us this Weds, April 9, 9PM EST, as DocPop (AKA Doctor Popular AKA Drown Radio) is drops his new nerdcore album Me Geek Pretty One Day on Jonny s Par-tay. Tracks like LolCats and Gygax will send you into a spiral of geekgastic ecstasy DocPop is the kind of guest we at the Par-tay like to associate ourselves with. When not rocking the nerdcore music world he is dazzles the masses with his amazing yoyo stylings DocPop is Earth s 3d ranked yoyoist. Doc is an artiste and a renaissance geek of the highest order. Like all HipHop moguls, he has his own line of accessories His hand crafted iPod cases fly off the shelves at his etsy store. To find out more about DocPop, check out the DocPop portal at DocPop.org (Above) DocPop s producer skills at work in the now classic Vlog Death Match video featuring MC Slutsky DocPop s yoyo stylings (above) So come Par-tay with us! Here s the details: What: A live online interactive video free for all with Doc Pop, hosted by Jonny Goldstein, and served up with flavor by Scott Stead. When: 9-10 PM EST, Weds, April 9 Where: www.jonnyspartay.com Why: This is your chance to par-tay with nerdcore star, world third ranked yoyoist, fashion icon, comic book artist DocPop. Need I say more? Be there!

You know. I know I complain about DC from time to time, but stuff like this is priceless, and it wouldn t happen anywhere else in quite this way. Captured on my Nokia N95 a few minutes ago:

In my 4 days in Austin I met lots of people, performed at the Fray Cafe, absorbed panels, reconnected with people from all over the world, went to scads of parties, got quoted in ValleyWag (OK that s a dubious one), shot heaps of videos, and ran around the Austin Convention Center in a cow suit. Here are some highlights: 1: Utterz Madness I decided to don the bovine togs when Sim from Utterz mentioned that they were trying to figure out which staff person was going to have to don the cow suit, as if wearing a cow suit was a chore, not a delight. I immediately offered to help out, and soon had Scott Stead suiting up. We tore all over the Austin Convention center getting people to moo into our phones as we recorded utterz from every nook and cranny of the building. Here s a pic of Scott experiencing Mitch Altman s Brain Machine. Here s an audio excerpt of the madness: 2) Meeting people: Here are just a sampling of the people I met: Derek Powazek. Dave Delaney Eamon O Connor Max Haot Becky McCrae Andrew Hyde Bryan G. Rhoads Lindsay Campbell and Adam Eland Liz Strauss Jeremiah Owyang Rebecca Caroe Rohit Barghava Adele McAlear 3) Reconnecting with old friends and contacts: One reason that SXSW Interactive makes so much sense for me is that it attracts people from various scenes I ve been part of: Edutech, Performance, Social Media, NYC geeks, Nonprofit Tech, Mainstream Media, Videoblogging, the DC Tech scene . It s a super efficient way to reconnect to all those scenes in one place. Here are some people I reconnected with: Irina Slutsky and Eddie Codel Dennis Crowley Lia Bulaong Beth Kanter Robert Scoble Jane Quigley John Geraci Steve Garfield Chris Brogan Susan Kirkpatrick And many more! 4) Core Conversations: Core Conversations are roundtable discusssions featuring anyone who feels like showing up and yapping about a particular topic. I went to one called 10 Ways to Piss off a Blogger led by DC s own Rohit Barghava. 5) Panels: I guess I lucked out: Every single panel I attended rocked. The panel which most entertained me: Worst Website Ever competition. Although my, Happy Net Box , did not win, I do have to give props to Merlin Mann who won with his completely vacuous effort Flockd Up. 6) Meeting Internet Idols Forget Warhol. In the future everyone will be famous to 15 people. Well, I met two people who are famous at least to me. The first is the creator of Little Yellow Different, Ernie Hsiung. OK, actually, my wife is the true fan of this guy. But I felt vicariously thrilled to meet him. His take on gay culture Chinese-American P.O.V. is droll as a soup dumpling The second guy I was thrilled to meet was Derek Powazek who has been encouraging community around storytelling on the web and live in meatspace for years. I got to get a little stage time at the Fray Cafe, where I recounted my true life story of that time when some Belarusian goons beat the crap beat out of me back in the 90 s. Always good fun that story. 7) Crazy Keynote Action: When you come to give a keynote at SXSW Interactive, you better do your homework, and you better be ready for some serious audience participation. It s an INTERACTIVE conference. People expect to be part of the proceedings. The keynote conversation featured Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg who was interviewed by Business Week s Sarah Lacy. Lacy did pretty much everything wrong. She asked Zuckerberg questions that the audience didn t care about (about the $ and biz aspects of Facebook), she kept promoting a book she was writing, she was overly familiar with Zuckerberg, and then she insulted the audience when they started to get aggravated. Zuckerberg himself didn t help matters with his canned, PR-vetted, answers. Finally, Lacy, extremely ungraciously, succumbed to audience pressure and opened it up to our questions. As all this was going on the multitudes of twitterers and bloggers in the audience were venting like crazy. I was one of them, and I found out later that one of my tweets ended up in the National Enquirer for Geeks ValleyWag. To the charges of being quotable, I plead guilty. Here is the aforementioned crowd, before it got ornery: As many noted, the big screw up was on the part of the organizers of SXSW who should have found someone better suited for this crowd to interview Zuckerberg. It was a grand spectacle though, and I did like the way the audience finally asserted itself and salvaged the event. 8) The BlogHaus: This room on the 3d floor was a nexus of hot A-list blogger action, but open to all. A great idea: One room, continuous food and beer, open to bloggers. Met tons of people here. Heaven. 9) Parties OK, a lot of these were kind of boring tons of people, free crappy well drinks, lousy music, but a few of these were great. NPR s soiree at Austin City Limits had great food and music. The Frog Design party had a great salsa band, and the 16-bit party featured an old time freak show, which while a little disturbing, at least had some character. 10) Fellow pilgrims The cool thing about the festival is that it takes on the character of a pilgrimage. And what is a pilgrimage without companions? As day blends to night to early morning and day again over and over, you find yourself checking in with certain people over and over again to see where they are, what they are doing, how they are doing. For me those people were Gerry T., Scott Stead, Kroosh, and Shashi. It was great wandering the streets, hallways, and clubs with you. Thanks for being there.

Steve Garfield interviewed me about my new project, YourEventMap.Com. Always great to see Steve.

So our collective experiment in poetry has wrapped up. In one month of poems we had 14 people contribute Haikus spoken, videoed, and/or written to Utterz.com. A total of 42 individual poems that were listened to a total of 463 times at the time of the writing of this blog post. Thanks to everyone who contributed, commented, and listened. I didn t fulfill my personal goal of doing a Haiku a day in February, but I did do 20 or so which is 20 more than I have written since 5th grade! I am so happy with this! I love the different angles people took on this-some people did videos, some did audio, some wrote text. One person even did a PowerPoint haiku. I love hearing the diferent voices and approaches. Some are playful, some dark, some earnest, some satirical. To experience all the haikus, go to Utterz. Here are a just a few of them: Shashi Bellamkonda on Valentines Day. From Jill Golick, screenplay writer. Making art out of adversity, Bev Sykes with this flu haiku. From James, a 3d grade teacher: David Beaudouin: Digital girl Juila Roy: Jan Mcglaughlin of the Faux Press with this PowerPoint Haiku: Ann Ohio responds to a challenge in which I asked her to make a haiku using the following words: Happy, Ohio, kitten. Purple Car with this one:

Stowe Boyd (AKA, The Stowe Boyd ) held forth about Twitter last night at the DC Media Makers meeting. He opined that it s useless to explain Twitter to people. You just have to tell them to try Twitter for a few weeks. And if they aren t willing to do that, it s useless explaining it. It s useless to try to describe it Roll up your pant legs and get into the flow for and be there for a while and if you aren t willing to try that, you really won t get this. For a more fleshed out version of Stowe s thoughts, check the video below (originally streamed live from my Nokia N95 phone).

We hereby dub Jeff Hibbard the Official Jonny s Par-tay Nation Minister O Information. Watch the vid and you ll see why:

Pulver Breakfast DC - Feb 2008 Originally uploaded by Joel Mark Witt It was a DIY media frenzy at the breakfast that Jeff Pulver hosted last Thursday in DC. This video captures Jeff Pulver streaming live video of me to the internet from his phone while I record audio of him talking to Utterz from my phone. Meanwhile Gudjon Mar Gudjon shoots this video of us being swarmed by shutterbugs: Scott Stead put together a bouncy string of interview snippets from dozens of attendees. I had a blast making a google map/utterz mashup that linked to several audio interviews I did with several folks. I think this kind of project is great for conferences and get togethers which brings people from different places together. Good fun! Thanks, Jeff, for making it happen, and thanks to Shana Glickfield, who found the venue. We were going to do it at Ben s Chili bowl, but there was no way we could have fit everyone there all at once!

This week you are invited to Par-tay with Aaron Brazell and Jeff Hibbard. Check out this promo from Jeff! He is truly a Par-tay-er. Aaron Brazell is half of the blunt spoken duo at the District of Corruption talk show, where he and Geoff Livingston call B.S. on social media snake oil peddlers. In his spare time he blogs at technosailor.com and isDirector of Technology at b5media. Jeff Aaron(!) is not shy about what he thinks, as you can see in his post Words that need to die in 2008. Our second guest is Northern Virginia vehicular videocaster Jeff Hibbard. Jeff rocks. His enthusiasm and ingenuity shines as he combines driving around in his truck with media making via social video platforms like qik, seesmic, and magnify. I m curious to find out what makes Jeff such an avid and inventive media makers. What: Jonny’s Par-tay, the live interactive web video talk show that puts the social back into social media. Who: Jonny Goldstein Scott Stead, with Featured Guests Aaron Brazell and Jeff Hibbard. How to watch: Just go to jonnygoldstein.com. Interactivity: Interact via the live chatroom and if you have a webcam and a blogtv.com account, we may even put you on via video. When: 9PM EST, Weds, Feb 6.

jonnygoldstein says: Announcing the kickoff of the Haiku Project on Utterz! From now until the end of February write your own haiku poem and recite it into Utterz from your phone. Tag it haikuproject so people can find it. I m going to do one haiku a day until the end of February. Write and record as many as you want as often as you want. Remember a haiku is 3 lines long. The first line is 5 syllables, 2nd line is 7 syllables, 3d and final line is 5 syllables. Happy haiku-ing!

jonnygoldstein says: Announcing the kickoff of the Haiku Project on Utterz! From now until the end of February write your own haiku poem and recite it into Utterz from your phone. Tag it haikuproject so people can find it. I m going to do one haiku a day until the end of February. Write and record as many as you want as often as you want. Remember a haiku is 3 lines long. The first line is 5 syllables, 2nd line is 7 syllables, 3d and final line is 5 syllables. Happy haiku-ing!

There are a lot of not for profit organizations in DC that don t do much. Then there is the organization where I work. We get busy. We promote policies and practices that encourage economic opportunity to people from ALL communities. We also directly help people who are in danger of losing their homes due to predatory loans they received, and assist minority owned business to move to the next level. So what do I do? I help my colleagues at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition influence the debate and support its member organizations (over 600 all across the USA) through the web and new media. Here s a quick interview I did with one of our community organizers, Lita Dunn Grossman, about what she s working on at the moment. Lita is smart and passionate. I appreciate her hanging in there with me when I announced I was going to record an interview with her from my phone and put it online. Here it is:

Mobile post sent by jonnygoldstein using Utterz. Replies. mp3 (Recorded via Utterz while strolling by the White House in DC) Mobile communications and online social networking are getting acquainted and 2008 could be the year that they have a passle of beautiful children. In fact, one adorable tyke that is already turning heads is Utterz.com, the service that lets people audio, video, and photoblog from their phone. Taking it even further, Utterz is an online community with the ability to follow other Utterz users, comment on community members posts, and all that social networky goodness. And of course Utterz lets you post links to your Utterz stuff on Twitter. Both Scott and I are enthusiastic Utterz users. I love the simplicity and versatility of it, and so far, given my old school no-frills phone, have used it solely to record audio and publish it around the web, and I still love it. In addition to Sim, Chris Parandian of mobilediner.com is going to give his take on the best and worst of 2007 in the wireless space, and what he sees coming down the pike in 2008. Chris has a fanatical interest in mobile communications and totally gets the potential of wireless communications meeting social media. What: Jonny’s Par-tay, the live interactive web video talk show Who: Jonny Goldstein, Scott Stead, and Featured Guests Chris Parandian of mobilediner.com and Sim from Utterz.com How to watch: Just go to jonnygoldstein.com. Or come in person and par-tay with us in meat space. Interactivity: Interact via the live chatroom and if you have a webcam and a blogtv.com account, we can even put you on via video. When: 9PM EST, Weds, Jan 9

This is dedicated to digitalmaverick, the 300th person to follow me on Twitter. Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: jonnygoldstein, digitalmaverick

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This week, two truly obsessed videobloggers grace Jonny s Par-tay, Becca Havens AKA MissBHavens and Heath Parks AKA The Batman Geek. What drives their obsession to create and to connect through the medium of online video? It s not money, it s not fame, so what is it? Come par-tay with these distinctive web video auteurs and find out what spirits possess these prolific and talented media makers to do what they do. Here s one of Becca s vids: This will give you a taste of Batman Geek s divine madness: What: Jonny’s Par-tay, the live interactive web video talk show Who: MissBHavens, The Batman Geek, Jonny Goldstein, and you. How to watch: Just go to jonnygoldstein.com Interactivity: Interact via the live chatroom and if you have a webcam and a blogtv.com account, we can even put you on via video. When: 9PM Eastern, Weds, Dec 12

This coming Weds, the love continues on Jonny s Par-tay, as I interview Stephen Stokols, CEO of WooMe.com, an innovative online speed dating platform featuring in-browser live interactive video sessions within a defined time frame. One reviewer called it a mashup of online dating, video IM, Twitter and speed dating! WooMe s motto is Enjoy the minute. People are using WooMe for more than just finding dates They are using it to find activity partners, travel partners, and even employees. I tried it (If my wife is reading this, it was strictly for research purposes!), and it s very fun and easy to use. One of the people I met in a session told me she is not at all tech savvy, yet was able to use it fine. WooMe got much attention and praise at the TechCrunch40 Conference in September, and it has a growing and enthusiastic user base since opening up to the public a few weeks ago. Come talk love, tech, and biz with social media innovator, Stephen Stokols this Weds! What: Jonny’s Par-tay, the live interactive web video talk show Who: WooMe.com CEO Stephen Stokols, Jonny Goldstein, and you How to watch: Just go to jonnygoldstein.com Interactivity: Interact via the live chatroom and if you have a webcam and a blogtv.com account, we can even put you on via video. When: 9PM EST, Weds, Dec 5

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Join a live conversation with two of the most fascinating people in social media today, Jim Long and Loic Le Meur, this Wednesday, Nov 28, at 9PM EST right here at jonnygoldstein.com. Jim Long Originally uploaded by DanYork Jim Long is an old media pro (a veteran NBC News cameraman) turned new media entrepreneur and social media star with his behind the scenes commentary on Twitter, the popular microblogging service. He was recently included on in a “DC Area’s Top 12 Social Media, Marketing, and PR blogs” list. I can t wait to ask Jim about the changes he is seeing in media and where he thinks things are going next. Jim will be a featured speaker at the DC Social Media Club the following Thursday, so if you can t make that event, be sure to check out his appearance on the Par-tay. Seesmic Originally uploaded by TechCrunch Loic Le Meur, the founder of the much talked about new social video platform, seesmic.com will also join us. TechCrunch described Seesmic this way: The service can be described as a video based Twitter, although it is also much more than that. The grand vision behind Seesmic is for it to become a very open online video/television service where people are constantly interacting around both user generated and professional content. Seesmic already has an enthusiastic posse of alpha testers and a 5,000 person waiting list for people who want to start using the service. One of the fun things about Seesmic is the way that Le Meur and his team are creating frequent videos about how their startup experience is going. Whether you are interested in technology, social media, innovative marketing, or fabulous French accents, you will enjoy rubbing elbows with Loic and Jim at this week s Par-tay. Look forward to seeing you there! What: Jonny’s Par-tay, the live interactive web video talk show Who: Jim Long, Loic Le Meur, Jonny Goldstein, and you How to watch: Just go to jonnygoldstein.com Interactivity: Interact via the live chatroom and if you have a webcam and an operator11.com account, we can even put you on via video. When: 9PM EST, Weds, Nov 28

In this audio piece, I talk about Jeff Pulver s talk show, stepping up my game, and how Operator11 is making a big mistake by not letting their users know what is going on with their website problems. Their site (which I use to stream my live video talk shows, and in general, I love) has been down since last night with no status update on their blog or anywhere else that I know of. I m sure they are in full crisis mode trying to fix whatever their problem is, but they are making a big mistake by not keeping their community in the loop about what s going on. Otherwise, people will get very frustrated. Mobile post sent by jonnygoldstein using Utterz. Replies. mp3

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