Entre­pre­neur, Jed White, and his com­pany itechne are putting together two Pub­Camp events; one each in Syd­ney and Mel­bourne. I had been hop­ing to be able to attend at least the Syd­ney event. But now, I’m able to attend both as I’ve been asked to present at them on the sub­ject of par­tic­i­pa­tory cul­ture and media. Pretty much right up my alley.

My talk, Slouch­ing Toward Inter­twingu­lar­ity will examine:

…the power of par­tic­i­pa­tory cul­ture, par­tic­u­larly in its online sense, has returned power to the hands of the indi­vid­ual. We now have the abil­ity to access or dis­trib­ute almost any infor­ma­tion at any time, to inter­act with our cir­cle of friends regard­less of loca­tion and exert sig­nif­i­cant influ­ence on pub­lic and busi­ness insti­tu­tions through the power of our connectedness.

In the words of the Pub­Camp site, Pub­Camp is for you if you want to:

  • Under­stand the most impor­tant trends and tech­nolo­gies for Web 2.0 and beyond — social and cit­i­zen media, the seman­tic web, wid­gets, the shift to online soft­ware, cloud com­put­ing, web devices, mobile and more.
  • Develop strate­gies for cap­i­tal­iz­ing on new dig­i­tal media tech­nolo­gies and stay­ing on top of their evolution.
  • Use Web 2.0 tech­nolo­gies inside your orga­ni­za­tion to improve how you operate.
  • Find out how other peo­ple are deal­ing with the chal­lenges and learn from their mis­takes and successes.
  • Take back prac­ti­cal tips and tech­niques you can use right now to help your busi­ness and career today.

Atten­dance is free, so assum­ing you have the time avail­able and you’re either in Syd­ney on 18 June or Mel­bourne on 23 June, there’s no rea­son you shouldn’t come along and get a headful.

You can sign up for either event (Syd­ney, Mel­bourne) at Upcom­ing. But there’s lim­ited space, so make sure you’re quick!