Thank YOU for making PAB09 the best PAB ever

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It’s hard to believe that we’ve all scattered for another year.  PAB09 was incredible!!!

We’ll publish more about PAB09 in the coming weeks.  In the meantime we wanted to make sure that we published our thank you to the entire PAB community — participants, ambassadors, speakers, friends and sponsors — for making PAB09 a major success.  It’s astounding that we are all able to make each PAB better than the last.

PAB2010 will be taking place at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.  We will be publishing more details after we’ve had a chance to digest everything that we learned, talked about and experienced this year.  Thank you to the Holiday Inn Kingston Waterfront, Baldwin Audio Visual, Kingston Thousand Islands Boat Cruise Company and all of the amazing local eateries (including Forno which we overwhelmed twice in each of the last three years), coffee shops, bars and stores for being a part of the PAB experience to date.

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Download your PAB09 program

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Hot off the… computer… we present to you the PAB09 program.  This PDF file includes a welcome letter, news about our Ambassador program, the schedule for the weekend, session summaries, a reminder about the annual group photo and information about Kingston.

In an effort to save trees, we will not be handing out printed copies of the program.  If you want a hard copy, please remember to print one out and bring it with you.

DOWNLOAD THE PAB09 PROGRAM

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Rickard’s White – the taste of PAB09

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We are pleased to announce that Molson Rickard’s White is a silver sponsor of PAB09.  The sponsorship includes some free Rickard’s White for the Saturday evening boat cruise as well as cash for the conference.

This marks the first time PAB has had a taste associated with it.  Which means that you can enjoy PAB all year round and show your appreciation to Molson at the same time.

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The Canadian Podcast Buffet Lunch

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DessertDon’t make lunch plans for Saturday.  Your PAB09 registration fee includes a buffet lunch of five prepared salads, domestic cheeses, veggies and dip, vegetable lasagna, honey-glazed chicken and steamed white and wild rice.  There’s also a fantastic dessert spread with fruit, cakes and pies.

Lunch will be served in the Roof Garden restaurant, down the hall from the main conference room.

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New Thought vs. Prevailing Thought – Valerie Hunter

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We asked Valerie Hunter how her session, While You Weren’t Looking: From the Visible to the Audible, challenges prevailing thought.

I hope it helps raise the profile of audio description, helps people to consider when they might lean too heavily on visual media in presenting ideas and inspires people to think about what they can do verbally to help audio tell a story. I also hope to reinforce the notion that when we all listen to audio only, we are all essentially blind, so these matters are really about inclusion, which is a guiding principle of podcasting. This is not about addressing a niche.

I guess the session isn’t bringing out new thought, but rather thought that goes dormant sometimes. We assume that people see and hear the same things we do, but I learn over and over again (sometimes the hard way) that isn’t the case. It’s not just about sight and hearing, but perspective. So maybe the session will tweak some people to the fact there are these other considerations, but also conclude that while it’s important to remember them, when it comes to expressing our own perspective, there’s only so much we can do, and we can only do the best we can at the time.

Valerie Hunter will be speaking at 11:00am on Saturday, June 20 as part of the PAB09 program.

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New Thought vs. Prevailing Thought – Tod Maffin

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We called Tod Maffin, our closing speaker, to ask how his session Twenty Moments of Epic Awesomeness challenges prevailing thought.  Tod’s reply?  “Who the fuck is this?!” We forgot that Tod is in Vancouver and woke him up at 4:30 a.m. Later that day, his lawyer sent us an abrupt letter that started with “Dear chronologically challenged pinheads,” Luckily, the letter also contained a brief summary (poorly handwritten on construction paper) of how the finalé will challenge your thoughts:

Rarely have I seen a podcaster fail who has thoroughly followed this path. Those who do not succeed are those who can not or will not give themselves to these 20 simple and awesome things — usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being awesome. There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault; they seem to have been born that way.

If you have decided that you want to be awesome and are willing to go to any length to get it – then you are ready to take certain steps. The first of which is to stick around for Tod’s closing address. Remember that we deal with audio – cunning, baffling, powerful! Without help it is too much for us. But there is One who can get you on your own personal path to awesomeness. That One is Tod. May you find him now.

Yeah, we don’t really understand it either, but Tod always delivers.

Tod Maffin will be speaking at 11:40am on Sunday, June 21 as part of the PAB09 program.

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