What is the power of social media? And why do so many people evangelize its effectiveness as a tool for making connections and promoting small businesses?
The other day after a late afternoon run, where I had been thinking how cool it would be to meet other social media users from Puerto Rico, I sent out the following Tweet:
And within less than two days of that simple Twitter message, the collaborative effort for organizing and making PodCamp Puerto Rico a reality, has been nothing short of amazing. (Sincere hat tip to Christopher S. Penn & Chris Brogan for starting this initiative.)
At present we have:
- A PodCampPR Wiki to work on organizing the event.
- A domain podcampPR.org has been registered and hopefully a simple site will be up by the end of the week.
- Locations are being scouted.
- Tentative dates (in November) are being suggested.
- A Twitter hashtag has been created #podcampPR.
- Discussions about goals, presentations, graphics, sound and other details are taking place.
NONE of this would have happened without social media, specifically, Twitter! Also, a huge *thank you* needs to be given to everyone who has provided assistance or offered their input thus far. (Please note: if you have assisted and do not see your name/link below you were NOT left off on purpose. I tried to get everyone in the roundup. If you’re not there LET me know.)
Gabriel Pagan
Lucilla Feliciano
Ezequiel Rodríguez Andino
Hector Ramos
Albizu Garcia
Jesus Hoyos
Edgardo E. Jiménez
Joel Villarini
Alesandro Ortiz
José Hernández Falcón
Rafy Mediavilla
Toky Cruz
Hey Mark, this is inspiring! Even though I can’t participate (the distance is still a bit too much for me :)), I’m cheering for your PodCamp.
It’s great to see when ideas take off and things start happening.
I love the idea of collaborating with folks and learning from them. Thanks for jogging!