Rob Anderson is the brains behind Co-op World, the tool used to handle all the live online sessions (including the recordings) for the International Podcasting Expo.

He explained how much it would cost to run a live online event through Co-op World and answered general questions about the platform.

• Someone asked if he was looking at incorporating a 3-D interface such as the one used for Second Life. Rob said that this would create a resource intensive environment and he created a web conferencing system so that no one is excluded from accessing the various sessions.
• The price to run an expo like the one IPE did, with $40+ sessions, all live sessions, all being recorded, it would be in the thousands of dollars. Rob will quote on an individual basis.
• The recordings of the sessions are crystal clear (depending on the person’s mic). I’ll be using a recording from the Expo for Monday’s Podonomics episode and you can be the judge yourself. You may want to consider using one of the Studio rooms to record a “live” session for your podcast.