Quick podcast. Kiva.org Be on time Cool Video Blogs Event entertainment

Car Cast

Blog talk www.eventmedia.blogspot.com  Adding friends?

Podcast & New Media Expo  -

CarCamp

Bill Maher (earlier interview with Dean Johnsen co executive producer)

Creative talk

1) Summer reading

1) Little red book of selling- Jeffery Gitomers      (carrie mcallen gave me- quite enjoying it)

2) If you want to write (Brenda Ueland) who died at 93 in 1985  Recommended by Aaron  Rusch 

3) Eat pray Love by Elizabeth gilbert   (recommended by Carrie mcallen – kinda girly but fun) After a divorce the author travels and stays in some different countries.

4) Round Ireland with a fridge—Tony Hawks  Given to me by my friend Ede TenWeges Hitchhiking all the around Ireland with a fridge -  bet

 

Featured sites-

Elite meetings.net—what did I think?

Hotelplanner.com

Buyerzone.com

Hotelsolutions.biz--

 

Social media

Facebook- have to check back- they own your content

Linked in-

Ning- start your own network- also has rss feeds

Second life- meco mansion – pretty cool nobody there.

 

Health at the meeting!

Foot care—Successful meetings july 2007

www.drugstore.com  bandaid active-flex blister block

dr scholl’s massaging gel insoles---  (TSA)

Green stuff-Our checklist- call out for—our company—ideas etc.

Green initiatives are red hot

 

News

people-

Entertain ment – internet or video?

Cool ideas-  Video production

Show notes will be posted very soon!!!

These are the show notes- They maybe a little scattered but if you have any questions email me at Mike at Grassshackroad.com

1)       Summer reading-  (none)

2)  Marketing fun-
Crumpler a small manufacturer of messenger bags for camera equipment, cell phones and laptops came up with an idea for Bags for Beer.

2) Green - Hotels 

3)      Featured sites-

 Dohop.com  learn about new airlines and who flies where…..

Simply audiobooks – gives away one audio book  for no cost. Past featured audio books have been jack london and agatha christie. 

Need a taxi?   1800cabride.com   lets folks in many US cities order a taxi online or on the phone and pay the bill and tip, tax etc.

Flavorpill.com  website and weekly email anything and anything going on.  You can get updates for NYC san francisco, miami LA chicago, london. 

Abrainterrain.com- intlectual happenings in Los Angeles.  Literature, science, culture and politics.

Myopenbar.com- Gudie to free booze latest info on  nightlife and hipster parties in san francisco, chicago, LA and new york. Surprisgly many clas gigs make the list- gallery openings, DJ's promotion fun (new vodkas etc)

Laughingsquid.com- website and email from this san francisco insttution since 1996.  Music drama, underground comedy, rarely shown films,

Nonsensenyc.com  new yorks guide to progressive under the radar happenings, (example – ny juddling festival and  end of season party for interactive dance troupe)

Ohmyrockness.com  In NYC, chicago and LA.  Small venue concert for folks hoping to catch the next big thing.  Billed as indie rock show list the site does a good job of covering whats going on. 

4)      Cool stuff-

Culture smart – (This american life with  David Sedaris- on a bus with an ugly american thinking he was french)

UK based companies guidebooks are being brought to America by randomhouse.

Another good tipster book is Smart travelers passport    Named best Itty gritty guidbook by readers digest.

1)       Summer reading-  Got most of these from successful meetings magazine-
The Productivity Handbook- Donald E Wetmore
Unlock Financial Value with Corporate Barter by John P Kramer & Clarence V Lee
The Dip- Seth Godin

The Ten Best of Everything: An ultimate guide for travelers  
By Nathaniel Lande and Andrew Lande
The power of feedback- by Joesph R Folkman
(ask if anyone has read these and email me at – mike@grassshackroad.com)
 
2)      Whats the biggest challenge when dealing with the demographics makeup of your attendees?
(Non unscientific survey of volunteers- so not a valid statistical sample))
 
3)      Featured sites- (successful meetings mag)
 
4)      Cool stuff-
(bag tag galore) 
www.pilcards.com 
(Business card fun) www.metalcards.com  
www.finestationary.com
www.dbrooker.com
 
Serious bio picture  just like the wall street journal (now that Rupert Murdock has taken over it may look like Myspace profile pics)  www.randyglassstudio.com
 
Virtual Skycap  www.luggageclub.com
 
Fun tech stuff – minority report(tom crusie)-  goodpoint system  created by Gesture studios www. Gesturestudios.com
 
5)      Audio visual stuff

Today we venture over to Karyn Moss Veneklasen Contact Karyn at Karyn@Mosspro.com Check out her project with her husband Noah Veneklasen The War Prayer at www.warprayer.com

To day mike interviews Longg Weeks of IBM second life Islands or as he goes by in real life Chuck Hamilton of IBM. If you get a chance, check out the IBM islands in SecondLife.com. Pretty amazing place. Just do a search on IBM in the search feature in Second Life and fly around. Listen in to the interview to get Chucks take on virtual worlds.

Todays show features Albin Pomnichowski Video editor extrodinare. You can reach him at albin@apedit.com or see his website at www.apedit.com Its a pretty long interview and the first in our stuido. I hope you enjoy it. www.podshackradio.com www.grassshackroad.com

Touch on Irish immigrants and Roman speakers. Have a great day!!! More interviews coming.

No interview this week. Talk about Twitter for events, secondlife and booted by some serious poopheads in the meco forum on Google.

Quick post about the MIM list & MeCo meeting planners list on Google groups and the releuctance to meetup in SL, twitter, CC Chapman, moving offices- Sadly no interview.

20 PodShackRadio Interview with Cherese Campo Mike meets with event communication specialists. Taking a look at what they do. How they do it. And get a behind the scenes look at their lives and why they spend their days helping communicate messages. Todays interview is a little differnt it is with Christine Jordan from Life in Africa. It comes from a podcast Grass Shack has been producing with www.KIVA.org. Please visit KIVA.org and donate. It's fun and easy. Plus fills your karma meter a little more. We all need that dont we?

Mike meets with event communication specialists. Taking a look at what they do. How they do it. And get a behind the scenes look at their lives and why they spend their days helping communicate messages. Todays interview is with Cherese Campo Show caller, producer and stage manager star!

Mike meets with production specialists. Taking a look at what they do. How they do it. And get a behind the scenes look at their lives and why they spend their days helping communicate messages. Todays interview is with Sue Pelletier-- MeetingsNet Web editor, Medical Meetings executive editor Sue, who has been with The Meetings Group since 1998, previously wrote for and edited several national and international trade magazines and newsletters for the environmental industry. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, she also helped to plan a technical trade conference and exposition and several smaller meetings for the environmental industry before deciding to stick with what she does best. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and her surrogate child, Augie the Australian Shepherd dog. http://blog.meetingsnet.com/face2face

Mike meets with production specialists. Taking a look at what they do. How they do it. And get a behind the scenes look at their lives and why they spend their days helping communicate messages. Todays interview is with xdarkx and alora of second life. We hope you enjoy it. Check out SecondLife.com where companies such as IBM, Sears, Toyota, wells Fargo are trying to catch those all important eyeballs in Second Life. Look for mike in second life as don Babcock and say hello. (You cant use your real name so I used my friend Don Babcocks from www.iv.com)

Mike meets with production specialists. Taking a look at what they do. How they do it. And get a behind the scenes look at their lives and why they spend their days helping communicate messages. Todays interview is with Bill Flagg of RegOnline.com

Mike meets with production specialists. Taking a look at what they do. How they do it. And get a behind the scenes look at their lives and why they spend their days helping communicate messages.

Todays interview is with HBO Real Time with Bill Maher's Co-Executive producer Dean Johnsen. www.hbo.com/billmaher/

Mike meets with event communication specialists. Taking a look at what they do. How they do it. And get a behind the scenes look at their lives and why they spend their days helping communicate messages.

Todays interview is with Miles Kapper Show caller and stage manager star!

Email Miles at showcaller@aol.com

www.thompsondockside.com

Mike meets with event communication specialists. Taking a look at what they do. How they do it. And get a behind the scenes look at their lives and why they spend their days helping communicate messages.

Todays show- Jon Trask of Audio Visual Services Unlimited www.AVSU.com JTrask@avsu.com

Mike meets with communicatons folks. Todays show returns to its suckieness. http://greenplanetfilmspodcast.com www.kiva.org Burning man - get a feel for the folks, art and culture of Burning Man without experiencing the sand. www.current.tv/burningman/ Burning Man Comics http://www.lennyjones.net/burn2005/comicbook2005.htm Resources for Family Films digitalpickle.com passitdown.com familymemoriesvideo.com ourstory.com pictureal.com storyzon.com timecapsulefilms.com webbiographies.com yesvideo.com Burningman edition.