Enjoying PodWorks.in (Day 2 10-JUN-07)

Day 2 of Podworks.in was really exciting and much more fun filled than Day 1. As Day 1 helped to shatter the virtual wall between every participant and now all the participants started freely interacting with each other.

On previous night (Saturday night) I stayed in Beach house along with participants and had a great time there. On Sunday we headed towards Tidel Park. John of Esha yoga joined with me in my car on our way from ECR to Tidel Park. Just a few words about John, he is US citizen and he got inspired by Indian yoga and Indian philosophy and came to India on 2003. He is part of Esha yoga for past four years and now he is master in Yoga. We shared our views about Indian Yoga and so on.


Event started at 10'0 clock and first session was from Sridhar Ranganathan an Product development Manager with Yahoo India. He gave presentation titled "Discovery Channel". It totally revolved around concept of "How to get your Blogs discovered by search engines". He made detail presentation and it should be really helpful for Bloggers to increase the eye ball count to their site. He provided how we can make search engine to search our blogs easily and push up our stand in the ranking and so on. He went on explaining importance of Blog rolls, Tagging, Bookmarking, Commenting of other blogs and linking back to your site. His detail presentation is posted in his blog. From my view his presentation was fantastic.

Sridhar Ranganathan presenting Discovery Channel

Next Dinesh from Indiainteracts presented how do to edit videos by using Adobe Premiere. Presentation was fantastic and he really showed how fluent he is with Adobe suite. He displayed his skills and answered the doubts from audience. He explained how easy it is to convert Video from Handy cam to computer with couple of additional hardware and software for little extra rupees. Overall it was very good presentation and very useful for the guys who are planing to do Video Podcast.

Oops I dint get Dinesh snaps on presentation so not able to put his presenation snaps

Then we had a presentation from Vivin Mathew of CNN-IBN, his topic related to 'how to make interesting podcast', as he is from TV reporter background he explained things related to editing the lengthy videos without stripping its core content. It was interesting to hear presentation from Journalist. As usual there were lot of question from audience and he answered to it.

Vivin Mathew of CNN-IBN during his presentation

Then Comes the presentation from film cameraman Shashi Kumar. I guess he was pulled in by Chinmayi for the presentation. His presentation was awesome. As he was much fluent and comfortable in Tamil, so he made his presentation in Tamil. Vijay who was compering the show translated for the non-Tamil audience. He gave fantastic presentation, he used very very simply and down to earth technique to explain about aperture,wide-angle view and optimum values to set for the above during shooting of Video. He did explained about usage of Lights during video capturing. It was really eye-opener to me. I came to know lot of things related to usage of lights during presentation. He presented his show with great energy and he kept the audience in whole happy and laughter mood through out his show. It proved too be informative also.

Shashi Kumar from film industry during his presentaion

As it was already 12:30 PM and I can already feel the hungry and was waiting for lunch. As lot of presentation still lined up, lunch was postponed for another 30 mins.

Now Yousuf from Sun MicroSystem presented it. His topic revolved around 'Hardware and software system required at server side to support Video streaming' It was mostly related to technical. As it was technical and I mostly luved and it was much interesting to me when explained about the require RAM configuration and servers (blade, clustering) and so on. I got exposed to lot technical details related to Video streaming at server end. Worth a good presentation for techies.

Yousuf during his presentation

We moved out for lunch and after quick lunch we had violin concert from Krish Ashok for 15 mins. It was really good show and every body listened and enjoyed the music.

Krish Ashok during his Veena concert

We had a session from Eric Miller. This totally revolved around the concept of Video conferencing. It was really fantastic to see the latest happening in Video conferencing field and to see how the technology is making video conferencing so simple and easy. In addition it is really interesting to see how video conferencing is making our life easier and connecting the world separated from 1000 of miles apart. It is really a great technology and each progress in Video conferencing technology is going to improve the communication of human being and break the distance barrier to a great extent.

Eric Miller presenting on VideoConference

Sharanya a college student studying Journalism and currently who is intern at CNN-IBN made a presentation. Her presentation was related to "Correct body language which should be maintained during interview". This presentation was definitely useful for Video podcast guys. I was really taken away by her fluency in English and easiness in presenting the topic. She started with Damshar-art (expressing the film names by just acting). Right from starting of the show audience got attracted to her show, then went on explaining about how to maintain Body language during interview. She used mock interview between her Friend and Eric Miller. They on their part made presentation very well by exhibiting proper acting. Overall her presentation kept the audience in great mood and fun thrilled one.

Sharanya during her presentation

Shanmugam from Satyam presented the show related to usage of podcast in E-Learning. Few guys who are working in L & D (Learning & Development) domain got curious and exchanged their views about the usage of podcast in Learning field. He explained how we can use podcast both audio and video in organization for Learning purpose.

He gave one more presentation related to Flash files (FLV).

Shanmugam during his presentation

Before wrapping of the day we had a presentation for Sunil Nayar and Vikram of Nautanki.tv .

After his presentation show came to an end. All the person gathered to have group photo and few people started leaving the hall. But many audience who were there helped the organizer in cleaning of the Hall. I can really see total commitment from audience in helping the organizer to clean up the hall by packing the beds, dis-assembling tables and loading it in Van and more. As we followed Un-coference format so totally audience played the duty of organizer also.

At end of the day it was really fantastic to see the spirits in each and every audience in this workshop. I am definitely sure this workshop was success full one and served many purpose like:

• Bringing awareness to podcast


• Encouraging the people to do podcast


• Breaking major myth - doing podcast require high end audio equipment and its for tech only


• It played as major event to increase your professional and social network.
  

Definitely I am sure people who attended this event will be looking for another forthcoming feature events from TKF.

Just few notes of acknowledgements :

• I took the timeline of the show from Chinmayi Blog


• I took the snaps from Flickr uploaded by DreamChaser

Ilan (myself) clarfying doubts :)