Careers in New Media and Podcasting

In this blog post, A New Way To Embed YouTube Videos, YouTube announced testing of new EMBED codes for your video. The biggest enhancement I see is that this embed will serve up wither Adobe Flash or HTML5 video depending on the users environment. This should make it easier for bloggers to post one video [...]

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We recently returned from a trip to the UK and I took several videos while we were there. The 2 videos below show 2 different methods of presenting a location to your viewer. The first is this time lapse video of a “flight” on the London Eye. It seemed to me that presenting clips from [...]

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One of the most common questions I get asked as a New Media consultant is “How do I live video stream my event?” The fact is, the technology part of the live streaming equation is easier than ever before, but it still requires a little bit of equipment and, more importantly, good planning to get [...]

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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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I will be presenting the workshop below during the mLearnCon Conference in San Diego, California. Audio Podcasting A to Z for Mobile Learning Monday June 14, 2010 08:30 AM Douglas E. Welch, The WelchWrite Company, Inc. Podcasting is the epitome of m-Learning in that education and training can be “pulled” to your audience at the [...]

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Location is hot in the technology world lately. As new services are created and achieve some sort of traction it is always a good idea to try each one. You never know how useful any particular service might be, especially until you give it a try. Recently, both Foursquare and Google Places (originally Google Local) [...]

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Community service site, Ning.com, announced today that they are removing the free option for their services and requiring all free sites to move up to their premium plan or move off the service. “So, we are going to change our strategy to devote 100% of our resources to building the winning product to capture this [...]

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Fast Company has an interesting story on Adam Corolla and his turn to podcasting after the ending of his traditional radio show. This is an interesting look inside the world of entertainment-oriented podcasting — podcasts that seek to make money as entertainment in their own right, as opposed to shows used to support a company, [...]

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The second part of my interview for the VoiceRegistry podcast appears today. You can check it out using the links below. Podcast- New Media/Social Media Strategies for Voice Actors (part 2) March 23rd, 2010 Posted in Audio Podcast Douglas E. Welch is a New Media/Social Media Consultant and pioneer podcaster. His early work in the theater prepared [...]

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I appear today on the VoiceRegistry podcast, speaking on social media and new media. The interview will appear in 2 parts. Watch this blog for Part 2 when it is released Podcast-New Media/Social Media Strategies for Voice Actors Douglas E. Welch is a New Media/Social Media Consultant and pioneer podcaster. His early work in the [...]

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I will be presenting the workshop below during the mLearnCon Conference in San Diego, California. Audio Podcasting A to Z for Mobile Learning Monday June 14, 2010 08:30 AM Douglas E. Welch, The WelchWrite Company, Inc. Podcasting is the epitome of m-Learning in that education and training can be “pulled” to your audience at the [...]

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Co-hosts Tracy Pattin and Danielle Gruen talk flip cam and shooting videos with New Media and IT guru, Douglas E. Welch of New Media Interchange. Doug joins New Media Tea Time and yes, via Skype! We are so delighted to have our “go-to-geek” guest starring once again. Watch New Media Tea Time Episode #24 – [...]

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When I am talking New Media, one question that always arises is, “…but what do I have to say that people will be interested in?” That fact is, we all have something interesting to say. We just don’t take the time to recognize it for what it is. We let it slip away instead of [...]

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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. You can watch the entire show here. Can’t see [...]

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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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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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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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From New Media Tea Time… “Where high tech meets low tech for tea and chocolate. Part 2 talking with the amazing Douglas Welch about Ning communities, how he set his up and how the rest of us can do so too.” Click To Play Download New Media Tea Time Episode 19 – iPod Ready Video

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