I just finished a blogging and podcasting workshop with the Porter Novelli agency in Adelaide, Australia. I only wish I had been able to be there in person. This fine looking group did send me a picture from during the presentation. I had control of their computer with NetMeeting and we were on speakerphone.

If you subscribe to our website you’ll get lots of information about new media, especially blogging and podcasting. To kind of put it all in perspective in one document, Eric Schwartzman, founder of iPressroom has just published a white paper titled, “New Media Marketing Communications.” You have to register to receive a copy but it’s free and easy.

Our local Jefferson City Chamber holds a periodic “Good Morning Jefferson City” breakfast and companies can have 30 seconds to tell everyone the “good news.” In our case we were just alerting them to our new media capabilities. We read a script and had the tagline play off my iPod on my travel speakers.

I get asked questions all the time about resources for blogging and podcasting. My answer is a simple one. Google for it. You will be amazed at all the information that’s available out there.

With the advent of new media technology there are a lot of legal question marks about content such as patents and trademarks, etc. iPac was created to try to get lawmakers up to date on what’s happening as they consider legislation that will affect anyone using these tools.

The NAMA Conference is underway here in Kansas City.