Tweet Tornado is an interesting new product to hit the market, but I question whether this product is worth the expense you are being expected to fork out for it. Let me explain why even spending $50 is too much. Twitter is not a messaging service for spruiking product. Twitter is an online community of [...]
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Regravity writes: Can you imagine 500 users, being able to generate literally thousands or hundreds of thousands of accounts that do nothing but spew marketing crap into Twitter, moreover can you imagine the impact that those tweets will cause on the Twitter servers? This is a real threat to Twitter as a social commuity and [...]
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Podcasters’ Emporium takes on a whole new feel in 2009, as Dave Gray joins me in the studio to discuss all things podcasting. You’ll find it all here, podcaster interviews, technical tips, engagement tricks and all the help you’ll need to make your podcasts even better. Dave Gray is a veteran podcaster, and the host [...]
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Today was the day that the ‘do no evil’ guys at Google screwed me over! I logged into feedburner today and got an ‘ever so loving’ message on the feedburner website instructing me to migrate my feeds. No users should be lost in the migration process, the message promised. I can’t tell you what else [...]
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Imagine a government proposing an internet censorship system that went further than any other democracy – one that made the internet up to 87% slower, more expensive, accidentally blocked up to one in 12 legitimate sites, and missed the vast majority of inappropriate content. This is not China, Saudi Arabia or Iran – this is [...]
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Kris Markman is an Assistant Professor from the University of Memphis. She is running a short survey to research an understanding of what motivates people to become podcasters, and develop a profile of who independent podcasters are and what kind of programs they produce. If you are over 18, and live somewhere on planet Earth, [...]
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Hey there everyone, thanks for tuning in to Podcasters’ Emporium 9, on the Lifestyle PodNetwork. Today we are continuing the interview with Dave Gray of the Aussie Geek Podcast about his insights into building a community around podcasting. He shares his insights about his unique podcast community at the Aussie Geek podcast. Also, take the [...]
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In this episode of Podcasters Emporium, I speak to Dave Gray, host of the Aussie Geek Podcast, and the successful program Global Geek Podcast on TPN. We speak to Dave about his decision to deconsolidate from the network and become independent. We also discuss and examine the challenges of moving and setting yourself up as [...]
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One of the things I love about the new media space is the technology that is so readily available to create content. I now have hardware and software to produce both video and audio podcasts. But now, with so much ‘stuff’ I thought I needed more space. So I went out to find other locations [...]
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This series of posts on effective CEO blogging is born out of a number of conversations that have driven me to think about what makes CEO blogging effective, and what reasons you might have to start a CEO blog. In particular I’m looking at the role of CEO blogging for an internal audience. Putting your [...]
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CEO blogging has come up twice in conversations this week, and it has been on my mind. The two conversations I had both provided me insights into why executives of organisations might start a blog and then my thoughts headed towards what would make a CEO blog float or sink. The first conversation came from [...]
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Recently I needed to setup an artist’s page in iTunes for the podcasts we host on the Lifestyle PodNetwork, so I thought I’d share exactly how to do it (in case anyone else plans to setup a network in the near future!) The Pre-requisites The first thing you need to do is submit your podcast [...]
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The other day I was looking for a way to consolidate the many feeds I have over at the Lifestyle PodNetwork so that I could present each show in the chronological order it was published in one feed. I found one way to do it through a beta service Yahoo! provides called Yahoo! Pipes. This [...]
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Well we’re all sitting here patiently waiting for the timezone to click-over in the US so that we can see the release of Google’s new opensource browser beta Chrome. I was reading the press release on the Google blog and the comic on the Google blog this morning, and it seems to have some innovative [...]
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