Careers in New Media and Podcasting

I did a short interview via Skype video today with Tracy Pattin of Sizzlecaster.com. Tracy is starting this new show and business to help with “Turning your Passion into your Personal Brand.” We talk about the how and way of moving forward with your own personal branding. You can find Tracy’s complete blog post at [...]

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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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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed 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 [...]

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed 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 [...]

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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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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Watch “Career Prescriptions” – iPod Ready Video Discuss this column and podcast on the Career-Op Community Site I presented this talk to Tuesdays with Transitioners, a local group dedicated to helping workers recover from layoff and make the move to a new career. All of my [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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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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Image via CrunchBase Today on Facebook, Megan over at Podcast Junky asked me… “What is the new gadget/toy/site/service are you playing with that makes all your posts start with “noted”?” I posted a fairly detailed response to her and realized here might be interested in this as well. Here is my response… Ah, this is [...]

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[chrisbrogan.com] In my neck of the woods, Mick Galuski is doing all kinds of little things to try out social media. He’s a comic shop owner. Every Wednesday, I get a direct message or a twitpic showing me the week’s comics that I’m really going to want to pick up. Awesome, personalized service! I write quite [...]

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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 had a great time at DevLearn 2008 and the Adobe Learning Summit last week. Here is my New Media presentation from the conference. I also gave a all-day Podcasting Workshop the day before the conference. Here are the slides from that presentation in PDF format. Download: Many-to-Many Media from DevLearn 2008

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed I had a great time at DevLearn 2008 and the Adobe Learning Summit last week. Here is my New Media presentation from the conference. I also gave a all-day Podcasting Workshop the day before the conference. Listen: Many-to-Many Media from DevLearn 2008 [Audio clip: view full [...]

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Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed I had a great time at DevLearn 2008 and the Adobe Learning Summit last week. Here is my New Media presentation from the conference. I also gave a all-day Podcasting Workshop the day before the conference. iPod Ready Video

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Douglas E. Welch Originally uploaded by sheiladeeisme Sheila got this nice picture of me as I presented my session, “…more than podcasting” at PodCampAZ last weekend. Audio and video of this session is coming soon. I have to get through my all-day podcasting workshop and a conference session at DevLearn2008 this week first.Thanks Sheila!

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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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