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In this espisode, we relate to the group a summary of the display of gear on 21 August 2008, as well as the agenda for the meeting. This will give those who did not get a chance to attend the meeting an idea of the items on display which then created interesting discussion among the attendees.

Welcome to our members Smiles Lewis and Glenn Ross. And thanks to Smiles for his comment and review of the meetup (you can see it on the web site for the meetup).

We had several members also discuss some of the topics of the agenda items of the New Media Expo 2008, which took place the week before-- from August 14 to August 16, 2008, in Las Vegas. At the event, I did see Shelly Brisbin, one of our members--but she was in an interview at the moment, and I did not get a chance to catch up with her again (one of the detriments of the event being in Las Vegas--as people scattered to different events, shows, locations and other locations in the Convention Center--and not like the "intimacy" of the prior 3 Expos at the Marriott and Ontario Convention Center in California).

I also gave a quick summary of the Podcast Secrets Reunion, which occurred the day before, in a different Las Vegas venue. Top among the topics were the benefits in the Expo and the Reunion resulting from my coming in as runner-up and 2nd-place winner of the Podcast Secrets Challenge contest among "veteran podcasters" (i.e., those who have already published a podcast before the challenge) as the most improved podcast (and the podcast series that won this award and recognition was http://www.gaincontrolofyourday.com). One of these benefits that created discussion was my promotion of my podcasts (I have 8 of them currently) at the Podcast

We did briefly discuss in detail the PremiumCast system and its benefits to those who want to publish a podcast and place their series into another directory--either for free or fee.

We also discussed different resources and free tutorials for those who are in the beginning stages of launching (or re-launching) podcast series. Of particular importance were the following:
- both the explanation and a live demonstration (using the Audio Technica 2020 USB microphone) at the end of the meeting of the LEVELATOR from Gigavox; and
- a discussion of syndication engines of both TUBEMOGUL and HELLOTXT and PING.FM;
- a set of documents that are being delivered now on how to make the best use of Twitter and its business uses;
- an explanation of the webinar/webcast/video content creation tool called MOGULUS;
- and finally, we had a few moments at the end of the audio podcast episode captured on the Zoom H2 portable recorder of a summary of both Smiles and Glenn, including the value that they received from the meetup on 21 August 2008.

We also agreed that either for the September or October meetup, we may have a VIRTUAL MEETUP via a webinar/webcast tool with audio dialogue and chat room ability. In this way, the majority of our members would have an opportunity to ask questions and see the screen demonstrations.

Our next meetup will be either September 18 or September 25--we will announce the date once we confirm that we do not have a conflict with the AUSTIN SOCIAL MEDIA MEETUP, since some of our members would like to attend both.
We will send out an email to the member distribution list as soon as we find out.