I’m starting a new project this week: to capture pictures of the leading Canadian bloggers, podcasters and video bloggers.

I’ll be able to jump start this effort thanks to a heavy schedule of social media meetups in central Canada this week. The week will kick off with the Third Monday social media meetup in Ottawa featuring Maclean’s columnist and author Paul Wells. The action moves to Toronto the next day for the Third Tuesday gathering with Wikinomics co-author Anthony Williams. On Wednesday, Marc Snyder has organized a blogger dinner with Naked Conversations co-author Shel Israel. And on Saturday, it’s back to Toronto for Podcamp Toronto, which promises to bring together up to 200 podcasters and podcasting enthusiasts.

At each of these events, I’ll try to get as many people as possible to subject themselves to my amateur snapshot skills. I’ll save the pictures to my flickr account with the tags: socialmediator, socialmediatorOttawa, socialmediatorToronto, and socialmediatorMontreal.

So, by the end of the week I hope to have a snapshot profile of the Canadian social media scene.

I hope that you will join me in this project. If you plan to attend a social media meetup, why not capture pictures of the bloggers, podcasters and video bloggers that you meet and save and tag them on flickr.

If you add photos, please let me know by a trackback to this post or a comment.