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I’m very excited to announce that we’re at an advance stage in planning of Media Camp Nottingham, the first (as far as I know) ‘unconference’ for media and those wanting to know more about going web 2.0 that’s been held in Nottingham.  The brainchild of the wonderful Caron from PCM Creative, a veteran of the MediaCamp scene, she’s managed to secure us the rather atmospheric use of Lace Market House for nowt, and even a few sponsors to boot to allow us to do the whole thing for free.

If you want to come all you have to do is add your name and email to the sign up list here, or just turn up on the day.  An interesting collection of folks signed up so far – from students to marketing pros to IT folks to theatre people coming from all around the Midlands and other parts of UK.  There are still a few more speaker sessions left, to speak (or just offer to lead a discussion) all you do is decide on a time slot and add your details here.   There’s some interesting topics already listed like Adam Sargent and John Sargant (no relation!) on applications of social media for political activitism, Jennifer Jones on making Leicester un-rubbish (a worthy task!) and I’ll be talking about Music, Free Like Water? the findings of my research studying into online independent music.

If you can’t make it to Nottingham (shame on you!) video blogging gurus Christian Payne (aka Documentally) and Phil Campbell will be on hand to video the whole shebang and live stream it all to the web, linked from here.  And of course we’ll all be encouraging the attendees and watchers to Twitter it, the Twitter account is mc_notts and the hash-tag for Twittering is #MCN1.

I’m really excited about Media Camp Nottingham as it does seem to be the cumulation of a number of related and interesting digital activities kicking off in Nottingham that I’ve blogged about before happening as a result, not from a stack load of public money, but of the altruism and commitment of a number of enthusiastic individuals, most notably:

Martin Wright and the Web 2.0 Surgery – which has helped a number of startup and businesses learn more about web 2.0 through free advice with experts, which will be back in June (we’re also in desperate need of a new venue – if you know somewhere in town quite central with good free wifi that can offer an informal and quiet  environment for talking late afternoon/early evening please drop me a line).

Adam Bird from Essendex’s Nott Tuesday, which will have its fourth meeting on May 12th with a competition between Nottingham’s most promising tech start-ups, judged by none other than the legendary Mike Butcher from TechCrunch.

You can find out more about the pertinent details of what an unconference is, the key themes and where/when on the Media Camp Nottingham wiki website here.  See you there!