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Camp Fandom 2.0

 

Event details

When: March 21, March 22, 2009

Where: Illinois Institute of Technology, McCormick Tribune Campus Center

About

Camp Fandom 2.0 is for fans, fansite maintainers, entertainment companies, convention dealers, convention runners, gamers, professional authors and fan artists, people who have some investment in entertainment, fandom, or the fan community.  The topics are should be geared around the web, social media, on-line activities, computers, gaming, mobile phones as they pertain to that topic.  Camp Fandom 2.0 is about the back end of fandom, the support structures that go into being a fan.

 

Focus

  •  finding volunteers/employees to help with fandom sites, projects, conventions, startups and businesses;
  •  networking with other startups/businesses operating in fanspace, fandom wikis, fandom communities, fansite maintainers, fandom based projects, dealers at conventions;
  •  demo sessions for new fansites, business, video games, startups in fanspaces, entertainment or of interest to fans;
  •  sessions on special issues that people running on-line sites such as fandom specific wikis, directories, fan fiction archives, review sites, dating services have to deal with;
  •  sessions about applying the lessons of web 2.0 such as SEO and utilizing social bookmarking sites to fandom activity;
  •  sessions for fans who have gone professional with their writing, art, music, fansites and special issues that they have;
  •  sessions on financial, legal, programming/coding, marketing, social aspects that people in fandom have to deal with;
  •  sessions on issues and trends in fandom; and
  •  creating a fandom oriented business over the weekend.

 

 

Sponsors

 

If you are interested in sponsoring Camp Fandom 2.0, please check back later.  More details will be available in January.

 

Schedule

Day 1: 9:00am to 5pm

Day 2: 9:00am to 5pm

 

 

Proposed Sessions

 

  • add your topic...

Topics I would like to hear about

 

  • Going from fan to professional.
  • Challenges in running wikis that deal with fans.
  • Recruiting support staff for your fansite, LiveJournal community, wiki, company.
  • How to get readers for your fan fiction and viewers for your fan art and fan vids.

 

 

Planners

 

 

Volunteers

 

  • add yourself...

 

Participants (aka Campers)

 

 

Task List

 

Tech

Wifi : IIT should provide?

Projector, White Boards : IIT may provide?

Streaming or Stickam or Skype : Desired?

Non-tech

Breakfast : Ideas? (Suggestion - Panera Bread)

Lunch : Ideas?

Coffee/Tea: Ideas?

After the camp: Ideas?

Sponsors: Need to find.

T-Shirts : Are they necessary?

Name tags: Who is a good company to use to print?

Logo: Need to design one.

 

 

Tags for flickr, delicious, ma.gnolia, technorati etc.

Please use the tag campfan

 

 

 

 

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