Mediaphyter – A Communications Cocktail

As Aaron Strout announced yesterday, we’re doing a podcast together. The Quick’n'Dirty Social Media podcast will launch on Thursday, June 4, and will run every week at 3 p.m. PT / 6 p.m. ET for your listening pleasure.

Why are we doing this podcast? Aaron summed it up pretty well in his post:

What do you get when you combine a year plus Twitter relationship, numerous collaborative efforts including a social media charity auction, guest blog posts and losts of link love with a dinner argument over the merit of celebrities joining Twitter? A weekly podcast show with a good friend and kindred spirit, that’s what.

Aaron was one of the first people I “met” when I jumped into this social media world and we seem to have been in lockstep ever since. After finally meeting face-to-face last month at a Hubspot tweet-up — and having a friendly yet fierce debate over celebrities on Twitter — I realized that Aaron’s expertise and persona complements mine very well. Not to mention, we both like to have fun and we both have a certain edge to us. It was a perfect podcast fit.

However, while we have a great name, we don’t have a logo. So we’ve pulled together some fantastic sponsors who have contributed to a prize package for the best Quick’n'Dirty podcast logo:

• Seagate: Free Agent Go portable hard drive
• Intel: A coveted Ajay Bhatt t-shirt
• Scate Ignite: Copy of Scate Ignite 4 multi-media presentation and e-learning software
• EuSecWest: Conference ticket -OR- MIMO UM710 mini monitor

Want to win all of those prizes? Simply enter the contest. Some guidelines:

1. Aaron and I know the name is edgy but this is still a family friendly podcast. He has a wife and kids and I have… well… he has a wife and kids!
2. Our tagline is “Because social media doesn’t have to be complicated.”
3. Our format includes some head to head point / counterpoint, a weekly challenge to listeners, digging into unknown social networks, and highlighting up and coming social media rockstars
4. We’re fun but we’re serious about what we do. So fun but professional would be a good tone.

Submissions should be uploaded to Flickr or a comparable site and the link (not the attachment) should be emailed to mediaphyter gmail com.

Deadline: Friday, May 29. We want to have this up and on our BlogTalkRadio page before we kick off on June 4.

Let’s see what ya got!