The same goes for sending Tweets via my mobile. so I was thrilled to have access to Twitterfone when it was initially released.

Today Pat Phelan has made my day by launching version 2 of Twitterfone which now allows you to listen to Twitter messages, reply to them and even send direct messages via Twitterfone.

If you are not already registered, head on over to Twitterfone.com and after you have registered you can:

• Dial 1 and to listen to your last 10 Tweets
• Dail 2 when you want to reply to someone
• Dial 3 to send a direct private message.

We talked about Twitterfone on this weeks podcast - you see we are so proud to have such a cool application developed by an Irish entrepreneur and his team.

Did you know: Twitterfone is currently available in 18 countries  and over 20,000 people have signed up to Twitterfone since it launched in May 2008?

Want to see how Twitterfone 2 works in action - here’s the video:

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One community that I was delighted to see get established is the Girl Geek Dinners where some VERY COOL women get together - all of whom share a common interest in technology.

Their next dinner is set for Tuesday, August 26th in Dublin.  The location is still to be confirmed by Martha Rotter the highly connected and self proclaimed geek girl who is the facilitator of the dinners here in Ireland.

You will have to pay for your own dinner and drinks, but the bubbling conversation is free!

You can register to be on the mailing list for notifications of future dinners - and they are heading around the country - rumour has it that super duper web designer Sabrina Dent is scouting out a venue for the September event in Cork.

I also understand that at previous dinners men are welcome and you don’t need to wear a skirt - short shorts will do!

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Or perhaps your podcast is now showing up in iTunes and you are noticing ever increasing numbers of podcast episodes being downloaded.

But have you remembered to make sure that your blog, Twitter account and podcasts are being listed in some of the key Irish directories?

While we’ve been blogging here at PodCamp Ireland for a year or so, I realised this week that we had not registered our blog in the Irish blog directories - sites that have a good ranking and where potential readers might go to browse to find out who’s blogging about what here in Ireland.

So here are 4 actions I took this week:

• I registered PodCamp Ireland’s blog at irishblogs.ie
• I submitted PodCamp Ireland’s blog feed to irishblogs.com
• I submitted our Twitter ID to twit.ie which is an aggregator for Irish Twitter and Jaiku users
• I submitted our podcast fee to PodcastingIreland.ie

(At the time of writing this, we are not yet showing up in the PodcastingIreland.ie directory or in Twit.ie - irishblogs.ie and irishblogs.com were super efficient at listing us)

Remember that blogging, Twittering and podcasting are all ways to create a community around your business and your brand, but it’s also important to become part of the community of people engaging in social media here in Ireland - if for no other reason that there are people who are taking the same journey and they are incredibly supportive.

Yes social media is great to build connections and relationships with people across the world as I reflected on with a new social network I joined last week which inspired my thought for the day yesterday - that we need never be lonely again if we are connected through social networking.

But there are are also some terrific people online in social media - and they may even be in your own home town.

So go on, get listed in the Irish blogging and podcasting directories today.

And if you have suggestions for other directories you think we should get listed in, do let me know.

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If you listened to last weeks show you will know tat while we were live on-air, Ken updated the site so you can now register to speak at PodCamp Ireland 2008.

This conference is OUR conference and when I say OUR I mean all of us here in Ireland and beyond who are interested in connecting with other social media enthusiasts.

The floor is open to you to make suggestions on what you want to hear or see at PodCamp Ireland 2008. If you are interested in speaking at PodCamp Ireland 2008, whether that be speaking about your personal experiences with social media or sharing strategies and best practice if you are an expert in social media, then we’d love to hear from you.

Mike Buckley is the first to register he is speaking - and he’s only travelling some 3,984 miles to join us!

Mike’s the host of the Mining the Store podcast and blog and his session is as follows:

Baby Boomers and Social Media:  Are they Mutually Exclusive? A discussion of demographics and web 2.0 usage; are “boomers” a lost cause when it comes to social media?

We’re looking forward to hearing what you’re planning to speak about - so come on get registered today! And if you are not too sure about speaking in public and want some help putting your session together, just drop me an email and we’ll help you get the show on the road.

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We now have a Twitter ID - yes we were already on Jaiku, but given that so many more people are on Twitter than Jaiku probably due to the vast array of applications available to support Twitter, then we thought we should also set up PodCamp Ireland Channel on Twitter. You can follow us at Twitter.com/podcampireland.

Bernie, Ken and I will continue to mention PodCamp Ireland in our own Tweets, but we hope this will help you find all the information quickly an easily if you are on Twitter about our latest blog posts, podcasts and updates about PodCamp Ireland - which incidentally is taking place NEXT MONTH!

Oh and if you know anyone who might be interested in sponsoring us, and they will get featured on the blog and in the podcast, perhaps you could point them in our direction? We need our sponsors so that we can bring the conference to you at no cost. We really appreciate your help!

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You see we thought ‘what the world needs now’ as the song goes is a little CommentLuv.

I was writing a comment over at Mari Smith’s blog and I noticed something different when I came to submit the comment.

You see Mari gave me the option of adding a link to my last blog post. See what it looks like here - I’ve highlighted the link to my blog post.

And I noticed that this was enabled by CommentLuv. What a great idea I thought and so ‘on-brand’ for Mari who is known for her generosity of spirit.

So I duly asked Mr McGuire to help me out and he installed the plugin - as I said on the PodCamp Ireland show yesterday, Ken’s THE man - who makes all this tech stuff work for us.

When you leave a comment here at the PodCamp Ireland blog (hint hint), you will see the following:

So all you need do is tick to enable CommentLuv which will enable a link to your most recent blog post.

And don’t worry if you don’t have a blog - just make sure that our readers know who you are by adding a link to your URL for your public profile on Facebook or LinkedIn for example when adding your name and email address.

You’d be surprised how many people will check out your profile or blog when they read the comments on blogs - so you see we are hoping that you’ll get a little more traffic all by posting your comments here at PodCamp Ireland.

Find out more about CommentLuv HERE and spread a little love across your blogging social network.

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SHOW NOTES

01.07    The show starts and Bernie, Ken and Krishna share what they have been up to this week

05:31    Hosting tip of the week with Michele Neylon of Blacknight.com - how to find a great domain name for your website, blog or podcast

11:19    We discuss our thoughts on domain names, whether we should have a .ME domain name and if we should ‘log our name’ on all the social networks that are getting established to protect our brand

18:17    We talk about radio show host Rick O’Shea who has started a Twitter back channel for his day time show follow him at twitter.com/rickoshea

19:53    Bernie shares the details of the badges our speakers at the conference will be wearing thanks to Marion Roche

24:00    Cathy Fitzgerald shares the journey her organisation have taken in the last 9 months adopting and integrating social media platforms into their communications and engagement programme having been inspired by PodCamp Ireland in 2007

36:10    We discuss the insights from the conversation about Artlinks.ie

43:26    Ken share how you can now register if you are interested in speaking at PodCamp Ireland 2008

44:55    We share how you can access the PodCamp Ireland podcast in iTunes and encourage you to do a review of the show there

45:30    We talk about the new search engine Cuil.com and what we find if we search for PodCamp Ireland

49:42    Wrap up of the show.

HOW TO LISTEN TO THE SHOW

• Access the streaming audio of this weeks PodCamp Ireland Podcast here
• Subscribe to the show through our PodCamp Ireland Podcast feed
• Subscribe to the show on iTunes - see the link on our PodCamp Ireland BlogTalk Radio page

If you like the show and appreciate our guests sharing their experiences in the world of social media - do add us as a favourite on the PodCamp Ireland BlogTalk Radio page

You can also find us in iTunes - subscribe at either our PodCamp Ireland BlogTalk Radio page or PodCamp Ireland or search for PodCamp Ireland in the iTunes podcast directory.

HOW TO LEAVE A COMMENT

We really welcome your comments and feedback about the show. What would you like us to cover in future shows? What questions do you have about implementing social media strategies to support your business strategy?

You can get in touch by email: PodCamp(at)gmail.com

Leave your comments and feedback about the show at our comment line (we have lots of choices so there are no excuses!)

• Calling from Ireland dial 01 443 4423
• Calling from the UK dial 0131 208 4423
• Calling from the US dial 818 528 4423
• Calling from elsewhere dial +1 8185284423
• Calling or sending us an IM via Skype then reach us at:’mycommentnow’
• Join the conversation at our PodCamp Ireland FriendFeed.com Room
• Join our PodCamp Ireland Jaiku Channel

NEXT WEEKS SHOW - 9am Ireland/UK on Wednesday 30 July 2008

Remember to join us next week for the live show. Join us by either listening to the live streaming of the show, or you can dial in to our PodCamp Ireland Blog Talk Radio show (it’s a US number).

Call-in Number:  +1 347 826 7790

And if you miss the show, don’t worry, its available as a podcast.

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Mitch Joel of the Six Pixels of Separation podcast I thought would come up with an interesting place for his most unusual place to podcast from.

I remember listening to one show where he recorded it on a plane coming back from a conference. Not something I think the RyanAir crew would welcome here in Ireland me thinks!

I did wonder how he managed to get such a good recording.

Here is Mitch’s comments on his most unusual place to podcast from:

The Andaman Sea - right off the beach in Thailand was probably the most unusual. I just recorded it live as I strolled along the beach in the sunset.

That being said, I like finding unusual places to record. I’ve Podcast from the country when I was away on a fishing trip. I’ve recorded a show in a plane on a flight from Los Angeles to New York and more.

I think that’s the fun of it all - finding new places to record and share.

Far more exotic than the locations I shared in my original article Mitch! Though I could imagine myself there now…….

I’m wondering if the people travelling to PodCamp Ireland 2008 from overseas will decide to podcast their thoughts after this years event on the planes taking them home?

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Well the terrific Donna Papacosta (hers is one podcast I never miss) shared her thoughts in response to that question.

Here’s what she said:

Well, I’m a bit of a stickler for sound, so when I’m recording my own podcast or podcasts for clients, I like to be in a quiet place, which is usually my studio. Last summer, however, the Town of Oakville decided to replace the huge pipes that carry away storm water, so the road outside my window was a mass of monster trucks and booming noises. On a few occasions, I retreated into the coat closet with my Zoom H4 and my Electrovoice mic. Within the cocoon of wool and cotton, I found silence.

Donna went on to share the fact that she likes to include ambient noise when it adds to the tone of the podcast in the production:

For a client’s podcast last year, I interviewed a man who uses solar energy at his home. Because I wanted listeners to feel the rural location, I captured sound from his field – crickets, wind, and the raw wildness of the place. And I recorded our interview on his front porch, which seemed to make sense.

At conferences, I often walk around grabbing wild sound. When you’re listening to a conference podcast, you expect to hear the hubbub of the exhibition hall, the laughter and clinking of glasses at the opening reception and the buzz in the hallways, as long as you can clearly understand the people who are speaking.

I think these are terrific points and it’s something I too am a stickler for on our premium programmes and podcasts in my business.Yes content is King but for your listeners ears podcast production values are Queen.

I’d love to bring you better quality audio (hopefully we are improving each week) in our PodCamp Ireland podcasts and I had a conversation with John C. Havens of Blog Talk Radio today about just that question - how can we enhance the listening enjoyment in terms of sound quality with their terrific product.

John and I will be speaking again soon and I’ll share his guidance with you for anyone who wants to create heir own podcast without needing any technical support - literally just a phone.

What tips do you have for creating podcasts with high production values?

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The show recording on BlogTalkRadio got a but scrambled up so the show starts about 2 minutes in. We also lost our guest this week part way through the interview - unfortunately due to problems with his Skype connection, but I hope that won’t put you off the show!

SHOW NOTES

02.00    Show starts

05:00    Hosting tip of the week with Michele Neylon - creating a branded email address

12:00    Introducing the third member of the PodCamp Ireland team, Ken McGuire

14:50    A discussion about disclosure on the web if you are a blogger

26:00    Campbell Scott shares the journey that Igopeople.com are taking to develop a new social network

45:50    Update on planning for PodCamp Ireland 2008

52:40    Wrap up of the show and requesting your feedback about the show.

HOW TO LISTEN TO THE SHOW

• Access the streaming audio of this weeks PodCamp Ireland Podcast here
• Subscribe to the show through our PodCamp Ireland Podcast feed
• Subscribe to the show on iTunes - see the link on our PodCamp Ireland BlogTalk Radio page

If you like the show and appreciate our guests sharing their experiences in the world of social media - do add us as a favourite on the PodCamp Ireland BlogTalk Radio page

You can also find us in iTunes - subscribe at either our PodCamp Ireland BlogTalk Radio page or PodCamp Ireland or search for PodCamp Ireland in the iTunes podcast directory.

HOW TO LEAVE A COMMENT

We really welcome your comments and feedback about the show. What would you like us to cover in future shows? What questions do you have about implementing social media strategies to support your business strategy?

You can get in touch by email: PodCamp(at)gmail.com

Leave your comments and feedback about the show at our comment line (we have lots of choices so there are no excuses!)

• Calling from Ireland dial 01 443 4423
• Calling from the UK dial 0131 208 4423
• Calling from the US dial 818 528 4423
• Calling from elsewhere dial +1 8185284423
• Calling or sending us an IM via Skype then reach us at:’mycommentnow’
• Join the conversation at our PodCamp Ireland FriendFeed.com Room
• Join our PodCamp Ireland Jaiku Channel

NEXT WEEKS SHOW - 9am Ireland/UK on Wednesday 30 July 2008

Remember to join us next week for the live show when we will be joined by Cathy Fitzgerald of Artlinks.ie.

Join us by either listening to the live streaming of the show, or you can dial in to our PodCamp Ireland Blog Talk Radio show (it’s a US number).

Call-in Number:  +1 347 826 7790

And if you miss the show, don’t worry, its available as a podcast.

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