Careers in New Media and Podcasting

A collection of New Media items I found interesting this week. Top Ten Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Small Business Blog Using Twitter – February 22, 2010 Samsung’s HMX-U20 and HMX-U15 Camcorders Shoot 1080p On the Cheap [Camcorders] – February 20, 2010 HP V1020h Pocketcam Is Less Pricey Than Its Peers [Pocketcams] – February [...]

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Since one of the best ways to demo and talk about a technology is putting it to work, I guested on New Media Tea Time this week via Skype, live from my own kitchen as I made peanut butter fudge and offered up some Skype tips. [...]

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If you use Google’s Feedburner service for managing the RSS feeds for your blogs and podcasts, you may, or may not, know that Feedburner also provides email subscriptions to your RSS feeds. Some people prefer email to RSS, so they might be more comfortable receiving your blog updates in their inbox. You can turn on [...]

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Just 10 simple steps to insure that your Skype calls (and other VOIP calls) are as high quality as possible. Shut down resource hogging program and services If your computer is busy doing something else, it is not giving you all the power you need for your Skype call. Shut down your Instant Messenger, Twitter [...]

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A collection of New Media items I found interesting this week. BLANK WordPress Theme – February 17, 2010 School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home – February 18, 2010 Weber State University shows us how to shoot 3D in HD for $250 (video) – February 17, 2010 No more big [...]

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I received an interesting message today from a fellow LA Tech traveler. She hosts a major event but was getting some push back on the advertising poster that was designed and released. She asked a couple of questions about how she might deal with this push back and turn it around into something positive. Off [...]

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Five books arrived from the LA Public Library today — my next collection of books to read. Here is what is in the stack on reading table next to my chair. Twyla Tharp: The Collaborative Habit I enjoyed Tharp’s earlier book, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life so this one caught [...]

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A collection of New Media items I found interesting this week. 7 Ways to Promote Your Offline Event Using Social Media – February 9, 2010 Self-Portrait Camera Mirror – February 8, 2010 Top 4 places to find WordPress themes – February 8, 2010 Budget-Conscious Podcasting Microphone – February 2, 2010 Ustream Helps Give Your Live [...]

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Important rule for New Media: Be very, very careful of anyone, including me, who says you MUST only use New Media in a particular way — you must only update your status once each day, you must connect your Twitter feed to Facebook, you MUST tweet only about professional things, you must only tweet about [...]

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I have been blogging for a long time, even before there were any blogging services to help out with the process. I used to edit a text file that automatically loaded into my home page in an early proto-blog experiment. When Blogger.com came along, I took too it immediately. It simplified things a lot and [...]

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