All About Douglas – Choose what you want to see and hear from me in 2013!

December 30, 2012 by Douglas E. Welch

I have a lot of interests, as most of you already know. Therefore, I have a lot of different blogs, events, and groups in my portfolio of online engagements. I also try to make myself available wherever people want to converse. This means that each of my interests usually has multiple presences on the Internet.

Here is a list of almost all of the ways you can talk with me and learn about what is happening in my life and work. You don’t need to, nor should you, try to subscribe to all of them. That would only lead to you seeing multiple copies of the same information. Rather, pick and choose whatever ways you would like to consume my “content.” If you are a heavy Facbeook user, you might want to join my pages there. Is Google+ catching your fancy? I have a home over there, too. Maybe email is your thing? No problem, almost all of my content can be emailed directly to your Inbox.

My goal is to make my content available in whatever way makes the most sense to you. It also means you can contact me and converse with me on your favorite online services. This list is also broken down by interest. If you want to see everything I post and share, the first section is where you can find it. This will contain information from all my areas of interest including events, careers, gardening, technology and my organizations.

Maybe, though, you are only interested in my gardening information. You can narrow your reading to my gardening blog or Facebook page. The same applies for careers, technology and my organizations. Select whatever is most interesting, and valuable, to you.

Thank you for supporting me, my blogs and podcasts and my organization over the years! I look forward to talking with you — and sharing more with you — in 2013.

All my interests and personal information as well as my Food-related blogging
My Kindle eBooks

Free samples available and no Kindle required
From A Gardener’s Notebook: A Collection of Essays
Career Compass: Finding Your Career North
Cultivating Your Career Reputations
The High-Tech Career Handbook
Social Media Self Preservation

My YouTube Channel – Videos from all my blogs and podcasts
Careers
Gardening
New Media
Technology
- TechnoloyIQ Blog and Podcast
Organizations
- CareerCamp International
- New Media Interchange

New Media Gear 005: Jack “Boom Goes The Dynamite” Heikle

December 30, 2012 by Douglas E. Welch

New Media Gear 005: Jack “Boom Goes The Dynamite” Heikle

Link: Jack “Boom Goes The Dynamite” Heikle on Facebook

Jack answered my call for Podcast Gear recommendations via the Facebook Podcast Community Group. You can ask your questions and find lots of podcasting discussion there.

If you have any questions about Jack’s podcasting equipment, please drop them in the comments.

New Media Equipment:

Previously on New Media Gear:

Subscribed 018: Thinking Allowed from BBC Radio 4

December 28, 2012 by Douglas E. Welch

Subscribed is my series highlighting the Podcasts, YouTube Channels and Blogs that I follow on a daily basis. Check out this entry, and past entries, for some great New Media Content — Douglas

Subscribed 018: Subscribed 018: Thinking Allowed from BBC Radio 4

I figured I might as well double-down on last week’s post about another BBC Radio 4 show, In Our Time, and post my other, favorite show from the BBC. Thinking Allowed with host, Laurie Taylor is all about culture and society. His guest regularly include authors and experts on sociology and culture as he explores 2 topics during each episode. Recent shows include discussions on Intoxication and Drugs, History, Heritage and Tradition in British Politics, Children in Hospitals, Family Funerals and Red Tape in India.

I love the far ranging topics of the shows and also the unique British take on problems and issues that effect all nations and cultures. It gives a fresh perspective on topics that have become the realm of dogma in American society. I tend to listen to both these shows as I drive around on client calls or as an educational moment when I am in the kitchen cooking dinner. As an audio podcast, it perfectly fills those 2 podcasting niches for me.

Like In Our Time, I highly recommend Thinking Allowed as a large part of any self-directed educational program. We should all be learning something new every day and this show is a great way to do it!

Check out more info on the In Our Time web site at BBC Radio 4

What are some of your favorite Subscriptions? Share them here in the comments!

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New Media Vocabulary: SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

December 27, 2012 by Douglas E. Welch

This is the beginning of a new series for Careers in New Media, “New Media Vocabulary.” Here I will try to make sense of some of the New Media terms that get tossed about, but which might be confusing to those new to the New Media world. — Douglas

New Media Vocabulary: SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

SEO (Search Engine Optimization are tactics, procedures and practices designed to increase the profile of your web site properties in the various Interest search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo Search and more. These practices can range from “white hat” style SEO such as producing good content, informative and attractive headlines for posts and judicious keyword usage to “black hat” tactics where software is used to attempt to manipulate the search engine algorithms to artificially inflate a web site’s profile.

The main goal of SEO is to place your web site in the top page of search results for a particular set of search terms. Such placement can result in large amounts of web traffic and that, in turn, can result in large revenue from that web site.

For more information on SEO…

Do you have questions, comments or clarifications to this New Media Vocabulary term? Add them to the comments!

Previously on New Media Vocabulary:

Podcast

New Media Gear 004: Mike Phillips from MikePhillips.me and Computers 2K Now podcast

December 23, 2012 by Douglas E. Welch

New Media Gear 004: Mike Phillips from MikePhillips.me and Computers 2K Now podcast

Mikephillips

Mike is very knowledgeable about microphones and also has quite a lot of experience working with all the different types in many different situations. During the PodcastU Roundtable a few weeks ago, Mike mentioned these two mics as some of the best for beginning and intermediate podcasters and other New Media content producers. You can find out more about Mike from the links below.

Link: MikePhillips.me

Link: Computer 2K Now

Mike answered my call for Podcast Gear recommendations via the Facebook Podcast Community Group. You can ask your questions and find lots of podcasting discussion there.

These microphones are somewhat unique in the that have both USB and XLR connectors. Beginning podcasters can connect them directly to their computers via USB, without a mixing board, but intermediate podcasts can then step up to a mixer and use the XLR connectors of the microphones in their more advanced setups. Very cool and this is the first time I have heard of such microphones. I think this is a great idea to offer users a bit more flexibility in their setups.

If you have any questions about Mike’s podcasting equipment, please drop them in the comments.

New Media Equipment:

Previously on New Media Gear:

New Media Vocabulary: Podcast

December 20, 2012 by Douglas E. Welch

New Media Vocabulary: Podcast

Here is my definition of a podcast…

A radio or television-like show, consisting of audio or video, that is delivered directly to a subscribers computer or mobile device over the Internet. While podcasts can be consumed directly from a web browser, podcasting provides a mechanism, the RSS feed, which allows software such as Apple’s iTunes to “subscribe” to a show and download new episodes automatically as soon as they are released. These downloaded media files can then be moved to a mobile player, such as an iPod or iPhone automatically and are available wherever and whenever the subscriber wishes. Despite the name, Podcast, they do not require an Apple device to consume them. While Apple devices make consumption easier, the podcast files can be moved onto and viewed on any number of media players.

It is the subscription and download model which I think makes podcasting so powerful. Once downloaded, subscribers can watch or listen no matter where they are, without an active connection to the Internet. The automatic delivery feature also makes it as easy as possible for the subscriber to receive new shows without any extra effort on their part.

While other New Media services support a subscription model, such as YouTube, viewing video from YouTube requires an active Internet connection of sufficient speed and quality to watch. Users also cannot download shows to create a local archive or listen when “off the Internet Grid.”

For more definitions of podcasting, see…

Do you have questions, comments or clarifications to this New Media Vocabulary term? Add them to the comments!

News: Google releases new YouTube Capture app for iOS/iPhone/iPad

December 17, 2012 by Douglas E. Welch

Just saw a Google+ post linking to the announcement of this new YouTube Capture app for iOS. (Film and share videos instantly with YouTube Capture for iPhone and iPod touch) It is designed to allow you to quickly capture videos, add stabilization and color correction and then upload it to YouTube. Additionally, it also can send links to Google+, Facebook and Twitter announcing your upload.

I just did this quick test of the app. The lighting was a little low, but it is a Real World Example of how the app would work in general use.

Can’t see the video above? Watch “YouTube Capture Test Video” on YouTube

Download the YouTube Capture from the iTunes app store

Podcasting/New Media Advocacy Group – A Public-Facing Group Designed to Promote Podcasting and New Media Content to the Public

December 17, 2012 by Douglas E. Welch

Podcasting/New Media Advocacy Group – A Public-Facing Group Designed to Promote Podcasting and New Media Content to the Public

One of the things I have always found lacking in the Podcasting Community is a public advocacy group dedicated to promoting podcasting (and other forms of New Media such as YouTube Channels) to the general public.

While this group, and others, do a good job of podcasters supporting each other, we all seem to be left on our own wen it comes to introducing our shows to the public, as well as the concept of New Media in general.

With advances like the AppleTV, Roku, Boxee and smart TV’s, it should be easier than ever for podcasters to get their shows before the non-technical public who are just interested in good content. I have often said that one item required for podcasting to grow into a more powerful medium is to “get on the TV!” By this I don’t mean get purchased by a television network, etc, but rather “get on the box” that is in nearly everyone’s home already.

In that regard, I am proposing the creation of a New Media Advocacy group specifically to promote podcasting and New Media to the general public. If there are other interested people, we can set up some online structures to start this journey and begin got move forward as 2013 begins.

I can offer some more thoughts on this topic if people are interested. It is something that has been on my mind since 2004.

Interested? Let’s start a conversation!

New Media Gear 003: Clay Dugger of The Righteous Dude’s Dudecast

December 16, 2012 by Douglas E. Welch

This is the third installment of a new series here on Careers in New Media/New Media Interchange — New Media Gear. I started collecting information for this series by posting a question in the Facebook Podcasting Community Group — “What equipment to you use?” I know that I like to know what others are using — and finding useful — in their New Media work and ways that it might make my work a bit easier. Over the next several weeks I will highlight a podcaster in each post and let your know what equipment they find useful and provide links to where you can pick it up yourself. — Douglas

New Media Gear 003: Clay Dugger of The Righteous Dude’s Dudecast

Find out more about Clay Dugger of The Righteous Dude’s Dudecast

Here is some of the equipment that Clay is using to produce his shows. He passed along this information via the Facebook Podcast Community Group. You can ask your questions and find lots of podcasting discussion there.

If you have any questions about Clay’s podcasting equipment, please drop them in the comments.

New Media Equipment:

Previously on New Media Gear:

News: 2012 Gift Guide Complete, new blog and podcast series, and more! Send me your feedback!

December 16, 2012 by Douglas E. Welch

2012 Gift Guide Complete!

As the shipping window begins to close on this holiday season, and after 115 different items, our 2012 Gift Guide comes to an end. I hope you have found my suggestions useful, practical and enjoyable and hope you have found gifts for your friends, family and yourself. Some of these items might be available locally or can be downloaded, so you still have some gifting time left.

You can find a complete list of all the gift guide items at the end of this message.

Books by Douglas E. Welch

My ebooks, can be “gifted” directly from Amazon.com and/or immediately downloaded to a eReader you might also be giving. I hope you’ll consider these book as a gift to your garden/careerbuilder/social media friends and family.

Cookbooks

All the recipes for my Annual Christmas Cookie Party are now available in these FREE cookbooks — available on your iPad or computer!

Video from Douglas

My video work has been growing over the last year and you can find all of my videos on my blogs and YouTube Channel. Subscribe to that channel, or the podcasts, to see each new video automatically.

New to DouglasEWelch.com

My gift to all of you this season is a collection of new blog and video series to feed your garden/career/new media needs. Some of these series have started already and you will see them in the appropriate blogs These include In the garden…, New Media Gear, Garden Vocabulary, Subscribed, New Food, Recipes in Rotation and more. You can also catch me each week as co-host of #KitchenParty, a live interview show where we get to talk to all our foodie friends. You can see past episodes on the Bakespace.com YouTube Channel.

I am transitioning away from my computer consulting work and focusing more the blogs and podcasts, so you should be seeing more great content, on a more regular schedule, than ever before. I hope you will join me in the coming year. I would love to hear what you think about anything you see here.

Wishing you all the best in 2013!

Dewsig

2012 Gift Guide

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2012 Gift Guide: Arriba Cases Gear Transport Bags

December 11, 2012 by Douglas E. Welch

Arriba Cases Gear Transport Bags

Most podcasters have a reason to move their gear around on occasion and you want to make sure it is protected while in-transit. Arriba Cases has a wide selection of padded gear bags available for almost any purpose. These bags were originally designed for musicians and their amplifiers, but they would also come in handy for any podcaster moving mixer, microphones, cables and stands from one location to another.

More 2012 Gift Guide Items: Continue reading →

2012 Gift Guide: Behringer 302USB Premium 5-Input Mixer

December 10, 2012 by Douglas E. Welch

Behringer 302USB Premium 5-Input Mixer

This small, portable mixer might be just the thing for a beginning podcaster or musician who wants to quickly record some tracks. The USB interface means you can easily connect it to Windows or Mac computers and use Garageband or Audacity to record. If you are working “on the road” a small mixer like this can be wonderful as it packs easily and still provides most of the features you might need.

If you think you might require recording with multiple microphones or added inputs, this might not be the mixer for you, but if, like myself, you are recording a 1 person podcast, it could be an excellent addition to your podcasting kit.

More 2012 Gift Guide Items: Continue reading →

New Media Gear 002: Richard Cleveland of Naked Ape Productions

December 9, 2012 by Douglas E. Welch

This is the second installment of a new series here on Careers in New Media/New Media Interchange — New Media Gear. I started collecting information for this series by posting a question in the Facebook Podcasting Community Group — “What equipment to you use?” I know that I like to know what others are using — and finding useful — in their New Media work and ways that it might make my work a bit easier. Over the next several weeks I will highlight a podcaster in each post and let your know what equipment they find useful and provide links to where you can pick it up yourself. — Douglas

New Media Gear 002: Richard Cleveland of Naked Ape Productions

Richard produces a number of shows including Popcorn Lobby: The Real Movie Discussion Show, Between the Pages: A weekly comic book and geek culture review show and a new show, PodcastU, just for podcasters like you.

Here is some of the equipment that Richard is using to produce his shows. He passed along this information via the Facebook Podcast Community Group. You can ask your questions and find lots of podcasting discussion there.

If you have any questions about Richard’s podcasting equipment, please drop them in the comments.

New Media Equipment:

Previously on New Media Gear:

Douglas E. Welch – Career Opportunities Podcast

2012 Gift Guide: Blue Microphones Icicle XLR to USB Mic Converter/Mic Preamp

December 9, 2012 by Douglas E. Welch

Blue Microphones Icicle XLR to USB Mic Converter/Mic Preamp

This is another piece of podcasting and audio recording gear that was mentioned during the PodcastU episode I was part of last Thursday. The Blue Icicle allows you to convert any standard XLR connected microphone into a USB microphone that can be plugged directly into your computer. This a great way of providing some flexibility in where and how you use your microphones. It also allows you to start off with the more standard XLR mics so that you don’t have to upgrade from a USB only mic as your podcasting work grows.

More 2012 Gift Guide Items:

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2012 Gift Guide: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Microphone

December 7, 2012 by Douglas E. Welch

Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Microphone

I was part of a PodcastU Roundtable last night and the audio techies in the group sang the praises of this microphone for beginning podcasters. The ATR2100USB is an interesting hybrid of new and old. Beginning podcasters can use it as a USB mic, connecting it directly to their computer for recording, but the mic also functions as a traditional XLR mic for connecting to a mixing board. The other members of the Roundtable complimented it audio quality while also praising its ability to switch between standards.

The ATR2100 is a dynamic microphone, so if you are struggling with an environment with a bit of background noise, this might serve you better than a larger condenser mic like the Blue Snowball and Yeti I featured earlier in the gift guide.

More 2012 Gift Guide Items:

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Over — Watch me LIVE on PodcastU now! Starting at 7pm PST/10pm EST

December 6, 2012 by Douglas E. Welch

Watch this space for a recorded version of this show in a few days! — Douglas

Richard Cleveland is having me as a guest on PodcastU this evening. Join us live!

Live video for mobile from Ustream

Learn about podcasting equipment and more!

2012 Gift Guide: Olloclip 3-in-1 Lens for iPhone

December 5, 2012 by Douglas E. Welch

Olloclip 3-in-1 Lens for iPhone 4/4s/5

If you use you iPhone for your New Media and Podcasting project, the Olloclip can give you more flexibility in the type of photos and video you shoot. This snap-on lens includes a Fish Eye, Wide Angle and Macro lens in one package. Simply clip it onto your iPhone and start shooting.

You can find example photos and video on the Olloclip web site.

More 2012 Gift Guide Items:

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2012 Gift Guide: Behringer XENYX X1622USB Premium 16-Input 2/2-Bus Mixer

December 3, 2012 by Douglas E. Welch

Behringer XENYX X1622USB Premium 16-Input 2/2-Bus Mixer

Wow! This would be a significant upgrade from my current podcasting equipment, as I laid out in the first New Media Gear post yesterday. This seems to have everything I want in a mixer. First, it is USB connected, so it plugs right into my computer. Second, it has a ton of inputs for a variety of external devices and microphones. Finally, it has a built-in compressor so I wouldn’t need my current outboard compressor i.e. less STUPH on my desk. (LAUGH)

If you are looking for a new mixer — or know a podcaster who is — this could be a great upgrade for them.

I found out about this mixer from Richard Cleveland, a member of the Facebook Podcasting Community. I will be highlighting all of Richard’s podcasting gear in an upcoming New Media Gear post.

More 2012 Gift Guide Items:

New Media Gear 001: Douglas E. Welch – Career Opportunities Podcast

December 2, 2012 by Douglas E. Welch

This is the beginning of a new series here on Careers in New Media/New Media Interchange — New Media Gear. I started collecting information for this series by posting a question in the Facebook Podcasting Community Group — “What equipment to you use?” I know that I like to know what others are using — and finding useful — in their New Media work and ways that it might make my work a bit easier. Over the next several weeks I will highlight a podcaster in each post and let your know what equipment they find useful and provide links to where you can pick it up yourself. — Douglas

New Media Gear 001: Douglas E. Welch – Career Opportunities Podcast

I figured I might as well start out with my own equipment in this series, as old as it might be. As a wise person once said, “if it isn’t’ broke, don’t fix it!” My equipment works well for what I do and while I might be looking for an upgrade here and there, my gear is adequate for now.

If you have any questions about my equipment, please drop them in the comments.

You can hear and see this equipment at work in my podcasts My Word, A Gardener’s Notebook, Career Opportunities, Careers in New Media and TechnologyIQ at DouglasEWelch.com

New Media Equipment:

Careers in New Media

Helping to Build New Careers in New Media

Category Archives: Podcasting

New Media Gear 005: Jack “Boom Goes The Dynamite” Heikle

Subscribed 018: Thinking Allowed from BBC Radio 4

New Media Gear 004: Mike Phillips from MikePhillips.me and Computers 2K Now podcast

News: Google releases new YouTube Capture app for iOS/iPhone/iPad

New Media Gear 003: Clay Dugger of The Righteous Dude’s Dudecast

News: 2012 Gift Guide Complete, new blog and podcast series, and more! Send me your feedback!

Wishing you all the best in 2013!

2012 Gift Guide: Arriba Cases Gear Transport Bags

2012 Gift Guide: Behringer 302USB Premium 5-Input Mixer

New Media Gear 002: Richard Cleveland of Naked Ape Productions

2012 Gift Guide: Blue Microphones Icicle XLR to USB Mic Converter/Mic Preamp

2012 Gift Guide: Audio-Technica ATR2100-USB Microphone

Over — Watch me LIVE on PodcastU now! Starting at 7pm PST/10pm EST

2012 Gift Guide: Olloclip 3-in-1 Lens for iPhone

2012 Gift Guide: Behringer XENYX X1622USB Premium 16-Input 2/2-Bus Mixer

New Media Gear 001: Douglas E. Welch – Career Opportunities Podcast