Many of you have been patiently awaiting this announcement. Our session registration page is now OPEN! If you have a new media topic that you are passionate about and would like to share your knowledge, feel free to sign up to lead a session at PodCamp Ohio. The sessions can be about anything New Media related such as blogging, podcasting, videos and the use of social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook.

PodCamp Ohio has a Flickr group that you can add your photos to. Feel free to create some fun promotional photos for this years PodCamp Ohio and add them to the PodCamp Ohio Flickr group. If we think they’re funny or interesting enough, we will feature them here. Please had this years hashtag: #pco09.

Things are moving right along here in PodCamp World. We have two returning sponsors for PodCamp Ohio.

Welcome back Dr. Anonymous from the Dr. Anomymous Podcast, and Blubrry.com which provides services and tools to podcasters.

During our organizing meeting this past Wednesday evening, we discussed starting an official hash tag for this years podcamp. It’s official, our hash tag will be #pco09. I fyou are discussing PodCamp Ohio in Twitter, blogging, posting pictures or videos, please add this hash tag to make it easier for your fellow PodCamp Ohio enthusiasts to find you.

We had a few issues with the registration page and all the bugs should be worked out so feel free to register now if you haven’t done so. If you have any problems with our site, let us know either by sending us a message on Twitter or by emailing Angelo )(angelo[at]podcampohio.com).

We also discussed adding a tag line to our logo to help explain what PodCamp Ohio is about and decided to open it up to all you to come up with one. A tag line is a short simple state ment that would further explain what PodCamp Is or maybe a funny statement that will entice people to find out more. So we made it a contest. For the next two weeks, we will accept your submissions for a tag line for PodCamp Ohio. Right now the winner will receive bragging rights, but if anyone would care to throw in a prize, we’re not to proud to accept that.  Just leave your tag line submission in the comments below. You could even let your friends know and ask them to post a comment to “vote” in favor of your tag line. Heck, why not make a video of your tag line suggestion and post it to Viddler or You Tube, add the #pdo09 hash tag and leave a link in the comments.  You may as well have some fun with this right?

If you would like to help organize PodCamp Ohio and hang out with some pretty cool if not wildly strange people, join us on line for our organizing meetings every Wednesday night at 8:00pm.

More news to follow about session registration and information about where to stay if you are coming from out of town.

We’re going to start the PodCamp Ohio Podcast tonight, February 18 at 8pm. The podcast will repeat every Wednesday at 8pm up through June.

Tonight we’re going to go over the tasks that we need to accomplish by the end of the month and also discuss launching session registration. Other topics, suggestions and feedback are welcome.

There are a number of ways to join the live show:

Phone
Call phone number (724) 444-7444 and enter in call ID 80720.

Web
Web interface TalkShoe Live where you can listen and text chat live.

Software
Software application TalkShoe Live Pro where you can use a microphone headset to call-in and text chat live.

The Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing at The Ohio State University is hosting the Digital Media in a Social World Conference this Thursday and Friday! The free conference covers instructional and administrative technologies, social media and other new technology as it applies to our social world.

More details, including a PDF of the presentations and  are available here.

We have updated PodCamp Ohio’s My Space page. If you are on My Space, be sure to add us as a friend and let all of your other My Space friends know about us.

Planning on attending PodCamp Ohio 2? Registration is now open! You can sign up to attend podcamp by clicking on the Participate tab above. We are excited that so many of you have been asking about this and are looking forward to seeing everyone there. Make sure to grab our rss feed or follow us on Twitter as well to keep up with all our activities and to get information on the future meet ups and planning sessions.

Coming soon will be session registration for those of you who would like to lead a session at PodCamp.

Don’t forget that the New Media Cincinnati meet up is later today.

New Media Cincinnati Meetup / PodCamp Ohio 2 Meetup is happening today at the The Pub Rookwood Mews from 4-6pm. During the meetup we’ll be discussing PodCamp Ohio session topics and explaining what is PodCamp.

Click here for more details.