We are pleased to announce that mDialog has joined the PodCamp Boston 3 community as a premium sponsor. mDialog will be sponsoring some creative ideas with the PodCamp Boston 3 shirts this year.

Please welcome mDialog and visit their sponsor area at PodCamp Boston 3.

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If you’re interested in presenting at PodCamp Boston 3, we’ve opened up a registration form for presenters to sign up.

• You MUST be registered as a participant with a ticket in order to present.
• You’ll need your Eventbrite ticket number when you register to present.

To sign up for a presentation slot, click this Google Doc.

To see who has already signed up, click this Google Doc instead.

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CC Chapman, one of the organizers of PodCamp Boston 3, asked yesterday how scholarships might work for PodCamp Boston. We’ve come up with a solution that will allow you, whether you’re an individual or organization, to offer scholarships for PodCamp Boston 3. Here’s how this will work.

First, the sponsoring person or group should email using the contact form on this site or podcampboston at gmail dot com. In the email, please detail:

1. The TOTAL amount of the scholarship ($250, $500, etc.)
2. The amount of an individual scholarship ($5, 50%, free ride)
3. The email address to send a Google Checkout invoice

We’ll invoice you for the amount of the scholarship in total and provide you with a set number of “discount codes” similar to online coupons. If you sponsor $100 and request 20 scholarships, we’ll give you a discount code that will work 20 times for $5 off, and it’s up to you as the sponsor to determine how you want to hand those out.

We look forward to seeing some creative scholarships!

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After a few months of research and groundwork, PodCamp Boston 3 will be held at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School on July 19 & 20, 2008. We’ve scheduled it during the summer, when it’s more affordable for venues, and not *too* close to PME/NME and PodCamps Ohio and Philly.

Here’s where it gets interesting. The venue, after all is said and done, will be about $35K for the amenities package, or about $25K for the space, plus A/V and Internet access.

PodCamp Boston 3 will be the first PodCamp that is also substantially sponsored by YOU. To help offset the fairly large price tag of the venue (and other schools & conference centers were of comparable cost), PodCamp Boston 3 will be the first PodCamp to revert back to the FooCamp model (the original unconference, before BarCamp) of using paid tickets for admission.

The Harvard medical school conference center holds about 400 people. With $50 sponsorships per person plus some corporate sponsorships, PodCamp Boston 3 should be able to break even.

We hope to see you at Harvard this summer. Sponsorship tickets are now available.

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