new media
Blogging
Bill Simmon is the owner of Candleblog, winner of the 2005 Seven Days “Daysie” award for Best Vermont Blog and co-runner-up for that award in 2006. Candleblog recently won the 2007 Daysie for Best Vermont (non-political) Blog. Since 2004, Candleblog has been Bill’s daily online journal and repository of internet ephemera. Bill also maintains the VCAM blog and oversees the election-cycle blogging experiment, Exit Voices.
Podcasting
Bill is the producer and co-host of a political podcast and radio program called Poli-Sci-Fi Radio. Bill hosts the show with political writer and blogger, Steve Benen (The Carpetbagger Report, Salon.com, Talking Points Memo, Crooks and Liars).
In 2005 and 2006 Bill was the host of the popular technology and culture podcast, Friday Coffeeblogging. FCB was featured in Business Week Magazine and in the O’Reilly Media book, Podcasting Pocketguide, where it was listed first in a section devoted to “30 Great Podcasts.” FCB was also featured in Podcasting News, in Seven Days and on Vermont Public Radio.
Evangelism
Bill is a cheerleader for the democratization of media and has been invited to speak about blogging and new media at The University of Vermont, Johnson State College, The CCTV Center for Media and Democracy (Real Media link), the national Alliance for Community Media conference and for Burlington, Vermont’s South End Arts and Business Association (QT). He has also discussed blogging and new media on Vermont Public Television’s current affairs program, Vermont This Week (mp3). In the fall of 2007, Bill helped organize a panel on blogging and civil liberties for the Vermont ACLU.
Current
In 2008 Bill has begun producing a regular video blog for VCAM, a non-profit community media and technology center in northern Vermont. His short film about political blogger Steve Benen, Digital Pamphleteer, has been seen online by thousands of people and has been invited to the Green Mountain Film Festival in March. Bill also plans to attend the 2008 SXSW Interactive and Film Conference in March.
Consulting
Bill is available as a new media consultant and can work with you (or your company or non-profit) to engage in the enormous meta-conversation happening online, using tools like blogs, podcasts and video blogs to spread the word, get seen and get plugged in.
If you are interested in inviting Bill to a speaking engagement or hiring him as a blogging/podcasting/video blogging consultant, feel free to send a note. Rates are negotiable (hint: offer lunch!).
