TORONTO, FEBRUARY 17, 2009 – PodCamp Toronto 2009, a two-day event exploring the world of new media community tools, is taking place February 21-22, 2009 at the Rogers Communication Centre at Ryerson University in Toronto.

PodCamp Toronto 2009 will bring together professionals and hobbyists from across North America to explore the cutting-edge of new media. Key features of the event include:

• PodCamp Toronto 2009 is an “unconference.” Unconferences are events where participants, rather than the organizers, create and manage the content of the sessions.
• PodCamp Toronto 2009 is a free event. Costs are offset by the event’s sponsors, and the event is organized by volunteers.
• Anyone can register to deliver a session or volunteer to help by signing up at PodCampToronto.org. Sessions can be on any aspect of social media.

Over 700 people have already registered to attend the event, and people have signed-up to host more than 45 sessions.

This is the third PodCamp to be held in Toronto. The first was held in February 2007. Over 300 people attended the event. The first “PodCamp” took place in Boston in 2006. Since then, the format has become popular worldwide.

Learn more about PodCamp Toronto 2009 by visiting the event wiki, the PodCamp Toronto blog and podcast.