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I’m headed to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada for the Podcasters Across Borders conference this weekend to speak on a panel about podcasting in your off time, and hopefully drink whiskey with Canadians.

The conference is happening at the National Arts Centre. My panel is on Saturday June 19 at 11 AM. I’ll be on with Dave Brodbeck (AKA Dave the psychologist) Ken Hernden and Scarborough Dude.

If you’re in Ottawa and can register for the conference come on by. And who knows, we may have an impromptu meetup or something too. Check Twitter for details.

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I’m very pleased to have been asked to moderate a panel at the New Noise Santa Barbara conference Friday October 9.

The panel is called THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN: Exploring The New Frontier In Music. I don’t mean to shout, they just wrote it in all caps on their website.

It will be at 2:00 PM in the Channel Islands Room at the Canary Hotel

“The panel will discuss the impact of technology on the music industry including its effect on distribution, marketing, copyrights, etc. The panel will analyze the mobile revolution, the current and future state of mobile applications and the emergence of subscription and free services. The panel will also discuss whether artists can be “compensated” for their music other than through sales, and can artists monetize their audience rather than their content.”

Panelists:
Brendan Mulligan (Founder/CEO, ArtistData)
Michael Schneider (CEO, Mobile Roadie)
Ethan Kaplan (VP Technology, Warner Bros. Records)
Cheryl Hodgson (Copyright & Entertainment Attorney)
Jacob Tell (President, Oniracom)

I’m not sure if New Noise will make nay of the panels available online after the fact, but if I find out I’ll let you know.

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I’ll be speaking at 1:15 PM, 27 April at the Society for American Business Editors and Writers annual conference in Denver. My session is about creating podcasts. I’ll cover why you would want to do a podcast, how to get started and best practices for current podcasters.

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I spoke on two panels at the IFA International press conference in Malta. The first panel, on Friday discussed blogging and podcasting, and how that relates or even threatens the print model of tech coverage.

On Saturday I was part of a group summing up the show. I spoke up on copyright, user interface design, and usability.

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I have the great pleasure of doing another session at this year’s New Media Expo (aka Podcast Expo) in Las Vegas. The convention runs August 14-16. Veronica Belmont and I are hosting a session called “Developing an Engaged Community (a.k.a. Don’t Feed the Trolls)” which kicks off Thursday August 14 at 10:30 AM.

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Monday March 10, at 3:30 PM in Room 8 at the Austin convention center, I’m doing a panel on how to relate to your audience. If you’re at SXSW and you do any sort of content, I hope you’ll stop by. I’m super-excited about the folks I’m doing the panel with. We’ve got Heather Armstrong of Dooce, Casey McKinnon of Galacticast fame, and Chris Smith of Snowmen Hunters.

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Headed down to the Podcast and New Media Expo in Ontario California first thing tomorrow morning.

Molly Wood’s on a panel called How To Make Your Web Video Wildly Popular  at 11:45 AM Friday in Ballroom C.  My session is Sunday at 11:45 AM also in Ballroom C called Building a Large AND Passionate Audience. 

We plan to record Buzz Out Loud after Molly’s panel on Friday, either in the lounge at the DoubleTree hotel or at a table in the convention center.  We’ll Twitter for sure.

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The SXSW Interactive conference has launched their annual panel picker. This is a chance for the Web audience at large to help choose what panels will happen at the conference next March.

I like what they’re doing this year. All the panels are displayed in the picker and you can rate as many as you feel like. If you’d like to rate my panel proposal, just search for Merritt. It’s tentatively titled “Make your audience love you.”

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Just got a call from the fine folks at the Podcast and New Media Expo. They’ve invited me to speak on Sunday September 30, 2007 at the conference in Ontario, California.

My session’s called “Building a large AND passionate audience.” I’ll be speaking on how to engage an audience. I’ll also attend the rest of the conference, so if you’re going to be down there, let me know!

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