PodCamp Ireland organisers collaborate through Jaiku

As we have been talking about social networking on The Podcast Sisters recently, I thought I would check in with you on whether you have joined any of the new social networks we have been talking about?

What would encourage you to join a social network?

Now some of us are really into high tech and would be at the bleeding edge of Web 2.0 tools.

Some of may be at the leading edge and some of us may be training behind and that is just OK.

Just like networking off-line, we often join an on-line social network as our high tech friends invite and encourage us to do so.

This week, we have been meeting to plan the first ever PodCamp Ireland event - I am definately the non techy amongst the PodCamp Irish team of Bernie, Conn, Ken and Brian!

PodCamp Ireland is a no-cost conference about social  and going to be taking place on the 29 September 2007 in kilkenny, Ireland.

For us to keep in contact, we are using Jaiku - a social network similar to Twitter (we covered Twitter on the Podcast Sisters Show 8 - what is Twitter?)

Bernie has set up a podcamp channel that you will find at #podcamp on Jaiku. We will be posting our updates through Jaiku, so we get them in real time in email or on our mobile phones for free. If you want to find out what's happening with the planning of PodCamp Ireland, why not head over to Jaiku and sign up today - and remember this is a no cost tool.

You can even take the HTML code and add it to your blog as I have done on Talking Coaching and Todays Women in Business.

Another thing about Twitter and Jaiku is that they both show up in Google - take a look for example just by putting "podcamp Ireland" into Google and you will see the Jaiku podcamp channel show-up on the front page.

This is great for building your personal brand on-line but do take care in managing your digital footprint! Remember when you are in Google you are in Google - and it can happen very fast, so be careful what you write. For example, I posted an article today on Todays Women in Business and it showed up in Google alerts in less than 30 minutes.

So who would you like to encourage to join you in a social network - friends, family, colleagues, clients?

Why not try out what you are learning about social networking and set up your own community and then invite others ? And if you do so, make sure you let us know here what social media tool you are trying out and your learnings and experience.