Under the name of WelchWrite Productions, We (Douglas And Rosanne) took on the hosting and technical production for The Mentoris Project Podcast — a collection of interviews of Mentoris book authors who take important Italian and Italian-American figures as their subjects. We just published our 23rd podcast and all are available on the Mentoris Project Web Site. This is one example. — Douglas
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A charity organization is partnering with Twitch to promote promising female streamers on the platform, offering them a series of financial grants to help sustain their channels.
The 1,000 Dreams Fund launched in late 2015, and defines itself as a non-profit organization that supports the “dreams of talented young women in need by providing access to critical funding, resources and meaningful mentor relationships. Now, it’s teamed up with Twitch for the 1,000 Dreams Fund Twitch BroadcastHER Grant.
The organizations will award the grant to at least two high school or college students every semester, with funds ranging from $500 to $2,000. The grants are supposed to be used for conference travel, equipment upgrades, workshops and other tools that align with the 1,000 Dreams Fund’s mission, Twitch said in a press release.
The goal is to help illustrate the gender gap women often face in specific fields, including streaming, which is still predominantly male. A 2016 study reported that women make up 35 percent of Twitch’s streaming landscape, and there aren’t any female streamers in the current top 10 list.
An interesting link found among my daily reading
It was so much fun sitting down with Grant Baciocco to talk creativity this week. Grant is an old friend from the earliest days of podcasting (2004) and I am always watching his career and enjoying whatever work he us currently engaged in, including his own podcasts — like Grant’s Advent Calendar, which we watched religiously when Joseph was younger — and his in-theater and on-screen work with PuppetUp! and much more!
Check out everything he does on MrGrant.com and also over at Saturday Morning Media, where he is always creating great, kid-friendly content. —Douglas
15 Minutes With author and podcaster Douglas Welch – GrantCast EPISODE #101
Douglas Welch is an author, podcaster and new media and social media consultant.
In this interview we discuss how he uses creativity in his work, plus discussion on his past int he world of theater, Walt Disney Imagineering and more.
Listen to 15 Minutes With author and podcaster Douglas Welch – GrantCast EPISODE #101
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
6262 Van Nuys Blvd.2nd Floor – Room 2A,
Van Nuys, CA [Map]
On this free meetup/workshop you will learn the basic steps of how to start your own podcast. Douglas E. Welch will be explaining both the technical and content creation aspects of how to run a successful podcast.
To learn more about Douglas visit his website: http://douglasewelch.com/
Hackerspace Los Angeles weekly meet up. Come by and mingle with like-minded people and see what others are working on. Find out what planned activities do we have and how you can participate.
If you are interested in helping us establish a permanent location in the San Fernando Valley you need to be here to help us plan this and make it happen.
We’ll still be holding classes/workshops of various interests once a month.
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Last Sunday we attended the latest performance of of Word Now! at the Fremont Centre Theater in South Pasadena.
The show is co-produced by a close friend and his wife was also presenting a story that evening, so we HAD to go, of course.
It was a great night out and the stories were absolutely amazing. We certainly plan on attending again!
Each show works around a general theme and this month’s theme was “COLD.”
The stories approached it in a variety of ways. Cold weather. Cold People. Cold World and more!
You can listen to the entire show here and I also greatly encourage you to see the live presentation in South Pasadena.
>>> Listen to Word Now! Stories – Cold – Part 1
[audio: http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-139193/TS-1051597.mp3]>>> Listen to Word Now! Stories – Cold – Part 2
[audio: http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-139193/TS-1051598.mp3]Word Now! performs every 2 months, so watch the web site for their March dates!
As we start 2015, I have selected a theme for the year. Over the past several years themes have included: Year of Visibility, Year of Leadership, and Year of Opportunity. This year I have decided to focus on something truly dear to my life and career — Year of Teaching.
A Year (and more) of Teaching
Education — in all forms — has always been a part of everything I do. Whether working in IT, consulting, writing. speaking or coaching, it all comes down to learning and education. Education was always been there whether I was speaking about careers, technology, new media, gardening or any of my other many and varied interests. I’ve always been passionate about sharing my experience with those around me to help them build the career (and life) they deserve.
As part of this Year of Teaching I want to focus on several areas where I think I can have the most impact. Perhaps you can help me in the coming year. I would greatly appreciate your advice, opportunities and your connections to others who might be able to use my skills.
I am looking to formalize my teaching in a number of ways. I am interested in connecting with organizations and students, of all types that could benefit from my experience, skills and, above all, my teaching abilities. Here are a few of the possibilities I foresee:
Over the years I have applied my teaching skills to Career Development, Gardening, Technology, New Media and more. You can find many examples of my writing, and both audio and video presentations on my web site at DouglasEWelch.com. I believe that each of these interests plays off the other and expands my ability to reach a diverse audience of students.
CareerCamp International
CareerCamp International will also continue to be an on-going part of my teaching efforts this year. I’ll be working to spread the word about CareerCamp and help develop as many additional CareerCamps as possible. I believe that CareerCamp provides a great opportunity for people to share their knowledge and experience — teaching important concepts and lessons to those around them. I’d love to bring CareerCamp to your college, school, business or organization. You only need to ask.
A Year of Teaching Begins
2015 is providing a good start for this Year of Teaching. I currently have 4 speaking/teaching engagements scheduled and I am in discussion for several more:
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That’s right!
As a special Midsummer treat to all my loyal readers, listeners and viewers, all my books are now just 99¢ each for the next 30 days!
Offer expires August 24, 2014
For career-minded types, there is my original book, The High-Tech Career Handbook, Cultivating You Career Reputations and, for those looking to decide where to take their career, Career Compass: Finding Your Career North.
Social Media fans can check out Social Media Self Preservation and learn how to take advantage of social media without losing your mind.
Finally, fans of A Gardener’s Notebook might like my collection of gardening essays, From A Gardener’s Notebook.
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Looking back over my stats, like a lot of folks today, I see that these were the Top 20 blog posts on Careers in New Media for 2013
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Repairing a damaged soaker hose – A Gardener’s Notebook
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Converting audio files with iTunes
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Forwarding GoDaddy Domain to WordPress.com blog
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TechnologyIQ – Bluestacks Android Emulator for Mac and Windows
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Garden Tip – Wine Bottle Container Waterer
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Install Firefox for Mac
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Bill Farmer, The Voice of Disney’s Goofy, Talks about “A Career in Voiceover”
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A Gardener’s Notebook:Repairing a damaged drip irrigation line
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KitchAid Mixer Unboxing
877 Views
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Here is a playlist of all the videos I produced in December 2013.
You can find all my past videos on my YouTube Channel. If you enjoy a video, please click the Like button or Subscribe to the YouTube Channel. Doing that directly effects how many other people see my videos.
to see a list of all the individuals videos in the playlist. WordPress has been upgraded to version 3.7 and I saw notification of this in my WordPress Dashboard today. As usual, this is for users who host their own, local, copies of WordPress. If you you use WordPress.com, your blogs will be updated automatically.
Here are a few updates available in this new version…
For a complete list of the extensive updates, view this page at the WordPress Codex, WordPress Version 3.7.
Upgrade your locally hosted WordPress sites today!
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Below is a playlist of some additional work we recently produced for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program — recording and editing individual author videos from their 20th Annual Publication Party. Six videos are currently available with another 12 coming soon. You will eventually see all 18 videos on this playlist.
If you a writer, I highly recommend subscribing to the UCLA Extension Writer’s Program YouTube Channel for more great content like this and the author interviews we produced for their new books television and film writing, Cut to the Chase and Inside the Room.
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As part of the Dog Days of Podcasting (http:/dogdaysofpodcasting.com) I am showing off a wide variety of podcasting styles and methods.
Today, I will be streaming my weekly series, Container Garden Update, LIVE using Google+ Hangouts on Air.
Join us at 7pm EDT/4pm PDT, using the links below, to watch and interact live.
Watch live and ask questions via Twitter, Google+ and more. I will embed the video on A Gardener’s Notebook blog page, (http://welchwrite.com/agn/) too, so you can watch directly from there.
Come join in the fun!
The fourth in a series of videos we produced for the UCLA Extension Writers Program to accompany their new books on television and screenwriting, Cut to the Chase and Inside the Room.
There will be 14 more videos from various chapter authors released over the next several weeks.
The third in a series of videos we produced for the UCLA Extension Writers Program to accompany their new books on television and screenwriting, Cut to the Chase and Inside the Room.
There will be 16 more videos from various chapter authors released over the next several weeks.
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So, as of today we are 15 days into the Dog Days of Podcasting Challenge. It has been somewhat easier than I thought, as I have a number of shows I try to produce regularly, so I only have to fill the holes that remain. Still, it as also gotten me moving on some ideas I have had for a long time.
Today’s podcast, MineFull – A Minecraft Let’s Play, has been in my mind for a long time, but I never had enough motivation to get moving on it. Things always seemed to get in the way and the thought of doing a podcast about playing a game seemed a bit frivolous. That said, it is a different form of podcast than anything I have done in the past, so it is a great stretch of my podcasting muscles.
I had also been meaning to do many more interviews for all the podcasts, but most especially Career Opportunities. I think it is so important to introduce readers and listeners to new people, new jobs, new careers and new ideas in order to help them grow. Again, the Dog Days finally got me moving on that project, along with some new equipment that was purchased for producing a series of videos for a client. I now have a better video camera, better mics and, most importantly, some decent lighting for shooting indoors, especially for interviews. I have recorded 3 interviews so far and will record another one today. I will probably be releasing them once per week for the next several weeks.
I thought at the beginning of the challenge I might have to fill in with more stream-of-conciousness audio podcasts in order to fill all the podcast slots, but that hasn’t happened. That said, I may still do some of those merely as a way of playing around and showing the possibilities of Podcasting and New Media.
Listen to “What you SHOULD be sharing in your social media feeds!” from Career Opportunities
[audio:http://welchwrite.com/career/audio/2013/career-op-20130730.mp3]Of course, now I want to hear what you think about the Dog Days of Podcasting Challenge as we head into the downhill portion of the month. Has it been illuminating, boring, challenging, frightening, enlightening? Have you listened to or watched other podcasters who are taking the challenge? You can find all our podcasts over the on Dog Days of Podcasting web site and associated RSS feed. You can even subscribe to the feed and have each days podcasts automatically downloaded and moved to your iTunes, iPod, iPhone or iPad.
Leave some comments to tell me what you think AND what you’d like to see and hear in the next 15 days of the Dog Days of Podcasting Challenge!
