Careers in New Media and Podcasting

Podcasters and other new media folks can always use some good music for their audio and video projects. If you aren’t a musician, have friends who are, or can’t afford a lot of money to license music, Incompetech can offer you some nice, royalty-free music. They have music in a variety of styles and moods [...]

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Update: I got to try viewing this post on an iPad and, sure enough, it allows for the embedded video to play right in the page, much like we see every other video. Very cool! In this blog post, A New Way To Embed YouTube Videos, YouTube announced testing of new EMBED codes for your [...]

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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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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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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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Yesterday I posted a note to my gardening blog, A Gardener’s Notebook, announcing that I had started a Twitter feed for the blog and the shared items I find using Google Reader. One of the first comments I received on the post talked about feeling overwhelmed at “having” to follow this social media service and [...]

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Here is a list of the Top 10 Posts from Careers in New Media. Back up your WordPress Database or lose it Audio: Douglas talks WordPress on Small Business Hosting podcast Overcoming New Media Misconceptions Video: State of the Music Industry Panel Discussion – Feb 9, 2009 New: Zoom Q3: Flip Video-type camera with better [...]

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Tracy Pattin of Voicebank.net’s VoiceRegistry blog and podcast talked with me about our recent live reading of A Christmas Carol for her voice actor readers. This is Part 1 or 2. A Live Internet Reading of “A Christmas Carol” On Sunday last, New Media Interchange Founder Douglas E. Welch, held his 4th Annual LIVE Reading [...]

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(Update 12/19/2009 – 1341 PST – Received links on how to export and import database into new 5.0 version of the database. Working with some knowledgeable others to help me do the process.) (Update 12/19/2009 – 1024 PST – Looks as if my main database is still in mySQL 4.0 format although GoDaddy support 5.0. [...]

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Having just returned from PodCampAZ in Phoenix, Arizona I keep thinking about why I enjoy this conference so much, and in fact, why I enjoy smaller conferences in general. For me, there seems to be a lot “more” to be gained from “less”. PodCampAZ, now in its third year, attracted over 600 attendees and yet [...]

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In the steady march towards the integration of many social networks, LinkedIn announced yesterday that you can now update your LinkedIn status using your Twitter updates. I don’t update my LinkedIn status nearly as often as I should, so this new feature almost guarantees that I will be interacting more with my LinkedIn connections. You [...]

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I received an interesting call from a friend yesterday that is leading me down an interesting New Media road. Our friend is also a teacher at my son’s school, so when her son was preliminarily diagnosed with the H1N1 flu virus, there was a bit of concern. She showed no symptoms herself, but the school [...]

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From www.farmanddairy.com “WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Two news and informational columns written by Purdue University Agriculture specialists are now available as podcasts. Two” via Purdue ag columns offered as podcasts | Farm and Dairy – The Auction Guide and Rural Marketplace.

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This contest from the folks over at Voicebank.net looked interesting. What a great reward for sharing your “worst” story! (SMILE) — Douglas Win an iPod Touch for your best “Worst” VO story Click title above to view original blog post at VideoVoiceBank.net August 11th, 2009 Posted in blog | No Comments » CONTEST DEADLINE EXTENDED! With every voice [...]

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Looking for a way to use new media/social media for your business. Here are 3 easy ways to get started that take nothing more and a little time. Thanks to Sally Witzky via Twitter for passing along this article. Three Instantly Effective Social Media Strategies No budget for developing a comprehensive Web strategy to engage [...]

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I have been testing SpokenWord.org over the last month or so and I think it is great. I consider a YouTube for Spoken Word new media projects. I think it will really help audio podcasters, especially, get some more recognition. If your shows are not already registered here, my recommendation is to get them there. [...]

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New Media Prescription 002 – Start/Build Your Email List Why Podcast? Example 01: Book Signings New Media Prescription 002 – Start/Build Your Email List Set my FLVs free! A Web Radio Intervention – It’s time to get out…please! Audio: Podcasting Now from BarCampLA-5 on March 2, 2008 Editing video on Nokia N95 Douglas on Gangplank [...]

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I came across this interesting article today on why you should have a custom “landing page” for people who discover you via Twitter. Develop a Twitter Landing Page from ProBlogger Blog Tips by Darren Rowse Over the weekend I created a landing page for my Twitter account. I got the idea off Laura Fitton (@pistachio) [...]

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