Jul 02
podCALGARY’s own Doug Nouwen give us the low down on Google Domains
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Apr 29
Eric from Tip Tap Tip demonstrates ID3 Editor.
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Apr 05
First, I appologize that there was no audio from the last meet up. The Planned presentation did not happen due to me forgetting to bring speakers.
When I was moving the directory over to the new site I noticed something, there are a number of podcasts that don’t use Feedburner. In a nut shell feedburner takes your source feed and tweaks it by adding key components and elements. It also allows you to track your readers/listeners/downloads. Feedburner does a lot of really cool things, but the best, imho is that it allows you a lot more control. Once you sign up for feedburner and have an account you simply drop the link to your source feed in and burn it. Now lets say a year or so down the road you change things or god forbid lose your domain or change blogging services what do you do? All of your listeners are subscribed to your old feed, now you have to get the word out and ask everyone to change over. Unless your are using feedburner. If you have an account you simple sign in and change the source feed to the new address. All of the changes are on the back end, your listener will never know anything happened.
Feedburner will tweak the feed for itunes and other readers, track downloads and subscribers, and it lets you easily change the source feed. So I ask you, why are you not using this?
Mar 17
Two new shows this week. First in the Education catagory…
TDK talks TM
TDK-talks-TM© is a bi-weekly podcast for Toastmasters about Toastmasters and their speaking activities. An educational series, accented with humor, satire and analogies, it is a collection of tips, tricks and techniques produced by host TDK who himself is a Toastmaster of approximately 10 years and currently is Area 45 Governor, Division J, District 42 of Alberta and Saskatchewan in the “Great White North” of Canada. TDK, with the support of his home club, Silver Springs Toastmasters, has reached the ACB, CL, (Advanced Communicator Bronze, Competent Leader) level. This audio media series is designed to augment TDK’s efforts in his role as Area Governor to his 5 clubs and closely follows the activities thru the Toastmaster year. Though the target audience is Toastmasters and clubs everywhere, guests wanting to know more about Toastmasters International © can also peruse it. Feedback is always welcome from the many evaluators of the global village.
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And in Entertainment for podCALGARY founder Sean J we have…
The BFF Show
All The BFF Show is a conversation podcast hosted by Sean J (formerly from All Axis Radio) and Mikey (from Public Nuisance Radio). Discussing topics, exchanging opinions and a whole lot of old-fasioned ball busting.
As an international show (Sean is from Alberta and Mikey is from Nebraska), the opinions, points of view and experiences are unique – yet oddly related.
Discover some new music, follow the show’s interactive format, or get involved in the live call-in shows.
Fabricated facts based on spontaneous research: The BFF Show – it’s an hour of shit.
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Remember if you are a or now of a Calgary podcast we’d love to list them here.
Mar 11
The way I see it, Facebook is like dinner out with a friend. You have time to catch up, see what each other is doing, share pictures of the dog and the kids, make some witty jokes and maybe even make a date to get together for dinner. Twitter on the other hand is like that water cooler or coffee room at work. A place for very quick conversations. “Hey did you see lost last nigh WTF is up with Sawyer? “Hows your day going, did you finish that project?” “Do you need help on that report?” Little updates to keep us connected to each other. But Twitter, or more to the point the people have seem to be joining twitter are changing
Let’s take that water cooler idea a little further, imagine that you are at the water cooler and here comes Sally. You’ve worked with Sally only for a little while but see seems nice, you know she has a couple of kids, a love of knitting and a good sense of humor. However, when Sally get to the water cooler she whips out a box of girl guide cookies and start talking you into buying them. It’s for he kids so you buy but feel a bit pressured. If it keeps up you eventually avoid Sally. Now imagine you just started working with Nick. You don’t know much about Nick, but he is coming your way so you stop and listen. Your expecting a “hi how are you” or a quote from his favorite movie or even a link to an LOLcat, but that’s not what you get. All of a sudden Nick start yelling at you about HOW EXCITED HE IS ABOUT HIS NEW BUSINESS AND HOW EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT IT AND YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT HIS SITE!!!!. You will like lock your office door when you see Nick
I am starting to see this more and more on Twitter. and this article kinda points to why. I my opinion Twitter is not about self promotion but more and more people are joining with that as their only goal that they are starting to drown out the conversation. Yes you can choose to not follow or to unfollow but some of it sneaks in through people you like following most of the time (I’m talking about followfriday). If everyone ends up self promoting on twitter then no one will be listening.
Twitter is very similar to the way most of our interaction occurs in the “real world”. Don’t believe me on that one? Make notes on the conversations you have through out the day with coworkers, coffee shop employees, in line at the store. You’ll notice that most conversations are under a couple of minutes and rarely get deep and heart felt. (This is why I love twitter, I see so much value in those quick connections we make everyday they are part of what helps us stay grounded.)
I am finding that I am spending more time blocking new twitters with nothing but links in their updates, and un-following people with tons of #followfriday name dropping. As more and more people “leverage the power” of twitter to sell their books , t shirts, how to make a million on twitter ebooks then less people will be bothered to join and participate in twitter. And then it just becomes another place on the web were the only people there are the salesmen trying to sell to each other. I would imagine that is what an Amway convention is like. So I am asking you, if you are going join the conversation, bring something to the party other than your opinions of you
Mar 08
- there is new audio up at podcalgary.org incase you’re not subscribed #
- @tiptaptip how about the city, a seperate podcast for each rec center with week schedules or a week update of road work by quadrant in reply to tiptaptip #
- @SeanJea agreed donor engagement, adoption updates, pet education the list is endless. in reply to SeanJea #
- @tiptaptip how about putting out the audio from community meetings in reply to tiptaptip #
- Still looking for ideas on who you’d like to here podcastings in #yyc #
- @tiptaptip of course it is in reply to tiptaptip #
- If your company used podcasting for training would you listen? #
- If you care about puppies then you need to read this http://www.bobgoyetche.com/?p=383 #
- @andrewmcintyre are you talking city counsel? I’d pay to hear that in reply to andrewmcintyre #
- @andrewmcintyre that would be interesting any idea who you’d want to hear? in reply to andrewmcintyre #
- Hopefully back to blogging this week, a social media post but still looking for ideas on how should be podcasting in calgary #
- @darylcognito dude, that was supposed to be my tweet! in reply to darylcognito #
- RT @darylcognito What are your thoughts? http://www.bobgoyetche.com/... is podcalgary doing enough to promote podcasting? #
- @AndyDoan not likely as amazon.ca is very different from it’s .com brother in reply to AndyDoan #
- Interview with @deankowen re: podcasting and social media for business http://tinyurl.com/ctxns6 (via @SeanJea) in reply to SeanJea #
- RT @kevinrose Urban Camouflage! (This is cool) http://tinyurl.com/cgd8yg (via @tyeart) in reply to tyeart #
- @WDRobot not sure but I bet they know who Kate Jackson is
in reply to WDRobot # - @ctwestival Um, will there be no more twestivals? in reply to ctwestival #
- @ctwestival well they are a great idea so let’s hope in reply to ctwestival #
- Don’t forget next weeks meetup at Killenny in brentwood #yyc 230 #
- The directory has finally been fixed and updated http://poddog.ca/podcalgary/?page_id=9 #
- Can you believe Mr Rock and Roll is back http://poddog.ca/podcalgary/?p=79 #
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Mar 08
He’s back, just when you thought it was safe to listen to Celene Dion again, Mr Rock & Roll is back to kick the crap out of you ear drums.
High Voltage Rock
A podcast playing ONLY kick-ass, high energy Rock & Roll, no exceptions !!
Hosted b: Mr. Rock & Roll Less Talk + More Rock = 95% less suckage. And more leather pants and big hair than any other Calgary Podcast.
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And in the Entertainment section in now complete with the addition of…
Vicious Ambitious
A Calgary-based group of independent comic creators, discuss and review comics, movies and television shows. Bi-weekly.
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And if you are into Gaming don’t miss out on these guys…
Diablo Minute Podcast
All things Diablo and Blizzard games. Stories and memories of the decade long series with discussions on upcoming developments and announcements. For Fans, By Fans, One Minute at a Time.
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GameWok
The GamerWok Hour blends today’s latest in gaming and tech news in a fresh and exciting format. Hosted by Nguy and Andrew from gamerwok.com and distributed every Monday morning. Take a Wok on the Geek side! (Good Clean Fun)
Mar 01
Eric from Tip Tap Tip presents a basic how to on the Zoom H2 portable recorder. He even manages to surprise everyone with a feature we did not know it had. (sorry you have to listen to find out)
There were no less that 3 Zoom H2s at the table and the presentation was recorded on one. If you want a sample of what it can do as a line in device have a listen to the Twestval audio which was recorded straight from a mixing board to the Zoom.
Join us next month at Kilkenny for a presentation on multiple feeds by Mr. Mark Blevis.
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Feb 22
I spend a lot of time in the social media fishbowl. I follow a few pundits on twitter and read a few blogs to keep up on the developments. There are a lot of smart people writing some smart stuff (along with a lot of idiots) but they all talk about using it in business or brand management Nobody seem to be talking about using social media for the reason it was developed, for people, normal people, to connect, share and communicate.
I have always considered myself a social media consumer. I live online dividing my time between facebook, twitter, and various blogs and forums. I also consume a large number of podcasts each week. The other day I went looking for some blogs or even a podcast or two about social media from the perspective of the consumer. I wanted something that could show me new tools or new ways to use the old tools to connect and share. You know one that talks about using facebook to connect with old friends or people you know in other cities rather than building group to sell your product. How to use twitter to connect and communicate with other conference goers or get the latest new from your city rather than how to position your brand and spam your followers.
I didn’t find any so I thougt I would post here and ask if anyone knows of any social media that is talking to me, the user, the consumer? Or is this a stupid request, do the people using social media tools and communities want to learn how to use them from social media?
Feb 16
On Thursday February 14 Calgary joined 202 other cities world wide to host a Twestival (If you’re reading this blog you likely know what Twitter is, but just in case go here.)
A Twestival (Twitter + Festival) is an evening event that started in London 2008 so that the online Twitter community could meet the faces behind the avatars and do some good for a social cause. The first event was organised in less than two weeks, demand for the event exceeded 300 people, and raised money and collected canned food for charity.
We had sponsorship from companies and start-ups who wanted to support the early adopter community. Sponsorship money went towards food and drink, which in turn covered the cost of the venue. We asked for donations at the door and sold raffle tickets for great prizes supplied by companies with a presence on Twitter.
The event raised money to support Chartiy:Water.
I was honored to be asked to sit on panel to talk about social media and twitter. Joining me were, Michael J. Sikorsky, Lyn Cadence, and Jacob George. Our moderator was Wendy Peter. The event was a lot of fun and I was able to capture the audio from the panel and thought it would make a great podcast.
Edit Mar 7, I missed a link. Roger Kondrat was a big part of organizing this event sorry for forgetting the link
Enjoy
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