Earlier today Omar Ha-Redeye attended a gathering of Progressive Bloggers at the home of Vijay Sappani in a Toronto suburb.  They discussed the upcoming Federal election, and the role of blogs as a communication tool.

Omar Ha-Redeye was interviewed by CBC television, who attended the event.  He described his formal education in online communication through Centennial College, and some of his reasons for founding Law is Cool and joining Slaw.  He told viewers how they could easily create their own blogs for free on sites like Blogger, Live Journal, and Word Press.

He also defined some basic online technology terms like blog, Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, and Flickr.  The footage will be used on The National and Susan Ormiston Online in the Blog Buzz segment to help the general public understand these ideas and sites as they come up during the election.

Omar participated in a Webinar on podcasting basics, Podcasting 101 for Communicators and Marketers, hosted by Donna Papacosta of Trafalgar Communications.

Donna was the first person to teach Omar how to podcast and did his first recording when Donna was a guest speaker at Centennial College’s Corporate Communications and Public Relations program.

Donna said,

Thanks to Gary for inviting me, to the volunteers who shared their stories, and to Omar Ha-Redeye, who very capably handled the microphone for the recording. (I suspect he will be podcasting very soon!)

It took a few months, but eventually Omar did start podcasting and launched the largest law school podcast in Canada.