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Entries from March 2008

Perfect Example: Book reading/talk by Clay Shirky

March 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Here is a perfect example of what I was talking about earlier when I said that all authors and booksellers should be recording their talks and presenting them on their web sites and podcasts.
Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, presents a talk on the ideas in his latest book at Harvard’s Berkman Center for […]

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Tags: Books · Events · New Media · Opinion · PR · Podcasting · Speaking

New Project: LA Book Readings on audio and video

March 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Last week I wrote an essay on how booksellers and authors could make great use of new media to help get their message out. The first step in the process is to simply capture the content they are already creating each time they host a book reading in their store. In that regard, I am […]

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Continuous negativity can cloud your message

March 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

As the economy started its recent downward slide, the overall mood of the country (and the Internet) has turned dark, too. This is only to be expected, of course, but it can bring about an even more insidious problem. It can cause your most important lessons and messages to be buried beneath the weight of […]

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Audio: A Year of Visibility from BarCampLA-5, March 1, 2008

March 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments

This is the audio from my talk A Year of Visibility at BarCampLA-5 on March 1, 2008. The audio quality here is slightly better than the video segment, as I was using my lavaliere mics.

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Why Podcast? Example 01: Book Signings

March 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Last Wednesday night, I went to a friend’s book reading at the Barnes and Noble nearby in Encino. Unlike a typical attendee, though, I made a point of talking to our friend and asking if he had thought about recording, and then podcasting, his reading. In fact, he had not, but quickly thought it would […]

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Tags: Books · Opinion · PR · Podcasting · Promotion

Audio: Podcasting Now from BarCampLA-5 on March 2, 2008

March 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Douglas speaks on Podcasting Now! at BarCampLA-5 on March 2, 2008.

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Podcasting Now from BarCampLA-5

March 5th, 2008 · No Comments

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Podcasting presentation from BarCampLA-5, held March 1-2, 2008

This video was originally shared on blip.tv by dewelch with a No license (All rights reserved) license.

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A Year of Visibility

March 4th, 2008 · No Comments

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A session from BarCampLA-5, held March 1-2, 2008.You can be the best coder, artist, writer, janitor, whatever, but it no one knows what you do, and how well you do it, does it really matter?

This video was originally shared on blip.tv by dewelch with a No license (All rights reserved) license.

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Editing video on Nokia N95

March 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

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Editing video on a phone….you bet!

This video was originally shared on blip.tv by dewelch with a No license (All rights reserved) license.

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