Careers in New Media and Podcasting

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 theater prepared him [...]

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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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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 the [...]

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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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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 [...]

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Ignoring New Media, in all its forms, is no longer an option for businesspeople.

It isn’t a fad.
It isn’t going away.
You can’t stick your fingers in your ears and chant “La La La”

It is changing the way you do business every day.
It is as important as a telephone – a bank account – a storefront.
It is [...]

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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 still [...]

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Sitting at a friend’s Canadian Thanksgiving celebration on Sunday I had a huge epiphany about new media. As we sat around talking about all sorts of things. Twitter, Facebook and blogging came up as they often do these days. Of course, as usually happens, I spent a lot of time explaining new media, addressing people’s [...]

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This is the first post in a new on-going series highlighting the blogs I read on a regular basis, using Google Reader. I have found over the last several years that I no longer read rint magazines very often. Most of my “magazin reading” is now done using Google Reader and a large collection of [...]

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One of the most important lessons for New Media creators is the fact that when you start, you often have absolutely no idea who your audience might be. You can survey, you can review, you can correlate, but until you put something out there, you will never truly know. [...]

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This last week has been an eye-opener for me in regards to New Media. Twice I was placed in the position of being a New Media apologist, trying to explain to someone why New Media was important even though they were very resistant to some of the basic ideas behind New Media. Everything I said [...]

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I’ve had some similar thoughts about other unconferences (and paid conferences, as well). I always tend to think about the beginners, the newcomers, the “just getting started” folks. Things simply get more complex once the ball starts rolling, but there are always new people joining in and I think their needs need to be addressed [...]

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On February 7, 2009, TK Promotions in association with the Coalition of SoCal Music Organizations (COSMO) and New Pants Publishing, Inc., presented the 2nd in a Series of Pitch-A-Song™ Industry Panels at the Guitar Merchant.
A “State of the Industry” panel proceeded the “Pitch-A-Song™”, moderated by Steve Scott, Pres. of COSMO (Coalition of Socal Music [...]

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In my on-going effort to show everyone how new media can help them in their business, career and life, I am often meet with skepticism and resistance. Years ago, the Internet created a huge opportunity for everyone to create their own media and, for the first time ever, easily distribute directly to their audience. Still, [...]

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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) when a guest post [...]

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Whenever a bunch of tech folks get together, as we did this weekend at PodCampAZ, talk soon turns to Twitter and its uses. While the discussion is wide ranging it eventually turns to the use of Twitter as a branding, promotion and business tool. Everyone has their own idea about how Twitter should be used. [...]

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So, if you have read the previous 2 installments of this series — Get a Blog and Start/Build Your Email List – then you are ready for the next step. Now that you have a place to release your new media and have started a mailing list to promote your new media, it is time [...]

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There was a recent comment on the blog regarding the monetization of new media. Making money from your new media is certainly a good topic for discussion, but I am wary of it for a number of reasons.
Too often, the person asking the question is not asking how to make money in new media, they [...]

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A word to the streaming web radio providers around the world who stream predominantly music. This is an intervention. You are in an abusive relationship. In order to preserve your life and sanity, you need to realize this fact and get out. Please remember, we’re only saying this because we love you.
Despite what you might [...]

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