Careers in New Media and Podcasting

MicW Professional Microphones I had 2 separate friends mention these iPhone/iPad compatible microphones in the last several days. Both saw them at the manufacturers display at the MacWorld Expo that was held in San Francisco this week. Portable devices are now capable of recording high quality audio, but sometimes you want a better mic, or [...]

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Are you ready for the next New Media Challenge? This time I want you to get close…really close! This might take some doing depending on your camera, as they often don’t focus on very close objects, but I am sure you can work it out. Of course, getting close can mean something else entirely, too. [...]

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I am so amazed it has taken this long for something like this to occur. I figured back in 2004 that podcasting would break open the media industry and provide a lot more alternatives to traditional, but media, programming. As they say, though, it can take a long time to turn a battleship. It is [...]

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Our friend, Janet Wilcox, will be starting her UCLA Extension voiceover class again in just a week. If you are interested in getting started in the industry, this could be the class for you. I will be speaking to her class about New Media this session, as I have done in the past. Class Description: [...]

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Just in time for WordPress Wednesday. Take some time to update your WordPress installs as well as your plugins. WordPress 3.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release Posted January 3, 2012 by Ryan Boren. Filed under Releases,Security. WordPress 3.3.1 is now available. This maintenance release fixes 15 issues with WordPress 3.3, as well as a fix for a cross-site scripting [...]

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Join me over at the New Media Interchange site for this first New Media Challenge of the New Year! — Douglas   Let’s get the New Year started right with our first New Media Challenge of 2012! New Media Challenge 2012-001 – Nature Get outside and show us all some piece of nature in your [...]

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed The Podcast Community on Facebook has come together this season to record an audio version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. This reading is based on an edited version of the story created by Dickens himself for his own live readings. Wishing you a Merry Christmas [...]

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E-Book PDF: Open in New Window | Download Our 6th Annual LIVE Reading of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol will take place on Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 6pm EST/3pm PST. Our annual holiday reading of this classic Dickens’ story. We bring together frends and family to read sections from a condensed version of the [...]

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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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I have been using Google+, the new social network from Google, for several weeks now. In light of by usual advice regarding social networks, I would encourage you to go check it out. As someone who is interested/involved in using social media, it is important to keep an eye on what is happening in the [...]

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Cool example of what can be done with high-end cameras and remote control helicopters Aerial RC Heli Demo – Summer / Fall 2011 from Heli Video Pros on Vimeo.

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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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Never heard of this method before, but it sounds liks something that could jumpstart a lot of beginning new media people. Give it a read! — Douglas Why is Video Hard? Five Shots and Patterns […] “One of the most famous, and useful of these, is Michael Rosenblum’s “five shot” method that he developed training [...]

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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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Techmunch Panel: Tips on Creating and Distributing Mouthwatering Multimedia Content Watch “Tips on Creating and Distributing Mouthwatering Multimedia Content” from Techmunch – iTunes Ready Video Moderator: Douglas E. Welch (@douglaswelch), New Media Consultant & writer/producer of A Gardener’s Notebook. More at DouglasEWelch.com Sara O’Donnell (@averagebetty), Producer and Host of AverageBetty.com Diane Cu (@whiteonrice), Photographer and [...]

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I had a great time moderating the panel “Tips on Creating and Distributing Mouthwatering Multimedia Content” and spending the entire day at Techmunch food blogger conference on Friday. We were talking about the technical aspects of creating multimedia content for food blogs. There were lots of great questions and some great answers from the panel. [...]

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I  have just been asked to moderate at panel discussion at the TECHmunch Food Blogger Conference being held in Santa Monica, California on Friday, September 23, 2011. TECHmunch is a series of conferences in cities across the U.S. designed to help food bloggers gain the hands-on digital media, marketing and business skills they need to [...]

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I was part of this panel a few weeks ago at the Writers Guild of America West here in Los Angeles. You’ll find my section around the 36 min point as well as during the small group discussions after the panel proper, but the entire panel is worth a watch. Here is the info from [...]

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Following my successful founding of CareerCampLA and CareerCampSCV, I am moving forward with another unconference idea I have had for a while — MediaCampLA. This unconference will focus on New Media of all sorts including online video sharing sites, podcasting and social media like Facebook, Twitter and more. I have attended many New Media conferences [...]

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We just completed a project for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program where we recorded their annual Publication Party and then created videos for each of the speakers which could then be used on their instructor information pages as well as on YouTube for the world to see. This is a great way to promote your [...]

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