The PAB2010 Family outside our new home.

PAB2010 was the year we left Kingston to move to Ottawa. It was a difficult decision to leave PAB’s home of 5 years. New vibes and new experiences are part of the PAB ethos, and we were rewarded for our change by experience one of the best PABs yet!

Here’s how the sessions looked:

Friday, June 18, 2010

• 1:00pm Behind the scenes/backstage tour of the NAC
• 2:30pm Hugging old friends, making new ones
• 3:30pm What It Is: Awesomizing Your Podcast Using Secrets From Radio (Tod Maffin) [1 hour]
• 7:00pm Registration and Community Lounging
• 7:30pm PAB2009 Kick-off (Mark Blevis and Bob Goyetche)
• 7:45pm The world has changed…now what? (Barry McLoughlin)
• 8:45pm Socializing

Saturday, June 19, 2010

• 8:30am Registration
• 8:50am Day two opening remarks (Bob Goyetche and Mark Blevis)
• 9:00am Make the Irrelevant Relevant: Apply Three Adult Learning Principles to Your Media (Mare Swallow)
• 9:40am JOLT! Contested Irrelevance (Andrea Ross)
• 9:45am Break
• 10:00am Independent humanitarian organizations and social media (Avril Benoît)
• 10:40am JOLT! You are what you hear (Sylvain Grand’maison)
• 10:45am Break
• 11:00am What if my boss finds out? (Dave Brodbeck, Tom Merritt, Ken Hernden & Scarborough Dude)
• 11:40am Lunch
• 1:00pm Beyond Words: What Makes Great Media Resonate (Mike Tennant)
• 1:40pm JOLT! A Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures (Anthony Marco)
• 1:45pm Break
• 2:00pm Disruption of Social Contracts (Whitney Hoffman)
• 2:40pm JOLT! Where did all the amateurs go? (John Meadows)
• 2:45pm Break
• 3:00pm Communicating Responsibly (Tamir Israel)
• 3:40pm JOLT! Online relationships and real life friendships – finding your sweetspot (Eden Spodek)
• 3:45pm Break
• 4:00pm Strong media brands (personal and mainstream) in the digital age (Kady O’Malley)
• 4:40pm Day two wrap-up and group photo (Bob Goyetche and Mark Blevis)
• 8:00pm Boat Cruise — PAB registrant partners and families are invited [2 hours]

Sunday, June 20, 2010

• 8:50am Day three opening remarks (Bob Goyetche and Mark Blevis)
• 9:00am Death and Digital Legacy (Adele McAlear)
• 9:40am JOLT! When in doubt, have cultists attack (Julien Smith)
• 9:45am Break
• 10:00am Cult of Listener: Podcaster as shaman in the post-literate Global Theatre (Adam Gratrix)
• 10:40am Making Meaning: How to Create Content that Speaks to People (Susan Murphy)
• 11:25am JOLT! The currency of relevance (Nancy Morris)
• 11:30am Conference wrap-up (Mark Blevis and Bob Goyetche)
• 12:00pm PAB2010 ends (hustle out of the venue and spend the afternoon together)