Careers in New Media and Podcasting

“I am deeply convinced of the importance and effectiveness of social media. Like the Internet itself, which made social media possible, social media allows you to expose your talents, your products, your creativity to a huge number of people all over the world. The “loose contacts” we make online are the beginning of what I [...]

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Congratulations to Ileane S., winner of a copy of Podcasting for Dummies (1st Edition), written by two of my podcast buddies, Evo Terra and Tee Morris. This book is a great introduction into the world of podcasting and can get you up and running in just a couple of hours. Learn about recording your show, starting [...]

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It’s starting to happen. I was talking to someone just the other night about how such deals would greatly benefit mainstream media outlets. The price of the readers is falling very rapidly while their capabilities just keep growing. Subscribe To A Newsapaper, Get An E-reader Free Well, this was bound to happen. Barnes & Noble [...]

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Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds Description from Amazon.com… Best-selling author and popular speaker Garr Reynolds is back in this newly revised edition of his classic, best-selling book, Presentation Zen, in which he showed readers there is a better way to reach the audience through simplicity and storytelling, and gave them the tools to confidently design [...]

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Start Your New Year Right with my eBook Discount The New Year is always a great time to rededicate yourself to old projects and start new ones. Don’t consider them resolutions, but rather a re-lauch of your most important projects! As my part in helping you with that endeavor, my Kindle eBooks are now on sale [...]

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Here are the top Career Opportunities posts for 2011 according to page views. Check them out! 10 Tips for better Skype Audio and Video Calls What do you need to live video stream your event? Feedburner Email Subscriptions Douglas E. Welch – Speaking Photo: WGA “Toot your own horn” Panel Discussion I Like This – [...]

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Do you have a friend who needs to use social media more productively — or just needs some help getting started? Consider gifting them a copy of my booklet, Social Media Self Preservation. You’ll find a “Give was a Gift” link on the Amazon page.   Here is what they will find inside the 7100 [...]

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We are all weird by Seth Godin Whenever I read one of Seth Godin’s books I feel he is preaching to the choir because his thoughts are so much in tune with my own when it comes to New Media, marketing and business. I often that he is describing things in much the same way [...]

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My first Kindle-format eBook is now available on Amazon. The great thing is that is doesn’t require a Kindle to read. You can get free Kindle software for nearly any device (Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, Blackberry) and read the book there. Please share this with your friends using the email and social media [...]

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Zarrella’s Hierarchy of Contagiousness: The Science, Design, and Engineering of Contagious Ideas by Dan Zarrella Want to learn how to maximize social media? When to do it, what words to use, who to tweet at? Look no further than Zarrella’s Hierarchy of Contagiousness: The Science, Design and Engineering of Contagious Ideas. Social media master Dan [...]

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#15 Sams Teach Yourself WordPress 3 in 10 minutes Chuck Tomasi, fellow Friends in Tech member and co-author of Podcasting for Dummies, along with another Friends in Tech member and podcasting partner, Kreg Steppe, have a new book out that would be a great gift for anyone interested in blogging and New Media. WordPress is [...]

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# 5 Podcasting for Dummies Although podcasting is entering its 6th year, there are still new people discovering it every day. If you are interested in diving into the nuts and bolts of podcasting, and new media in general, you would do well to look to the second edition of what was one of the [...]

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Since I was there at the beginning of Podcasting and New Media, it only makes sense that I have a lot of friends and acquaintances in the New Media world. In fact, several of these friends have authored, or co-authored very useful New Media books. Below are some examples. Paperback | Kindle Edition Friends Evo [...]

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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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I have been talking for a while about how podcasting can help to promote sales of books and it seems some authors are starting to get on the podcast bus. I love The Splendid Table with Lynne Rossetto Kasper, but I found I was rarely around a radio when it aired. As podcasting started, I [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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A few months ago, here in the home office, I did a podcasting segment for a new, local TV show. You should see the video below this post. Those of you who know me, know that I love to talk tech and especially about podcasting. I get knowing chuckles whenever I tell people I have [...]

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You have probably heard of the term, The Long Tail if you have any interest in new media at all. This important book laid out the concept of “Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More.” I have been meaning to read it for myself, after hearing others quote from it and use [...]

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