The Flowering Structure of a Podcast

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So you’re got a microphone ready, there might be a camera in the background with a blinking LED, and it’s time for you to record your latest podcast. But where to start? One of the questions I get asked a lot is "what should I talk about" in a podcast. To be honest as long … [Read more]

Imperfection Makes Perfect

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On of the things that I found surprising when I started out in podcasting was the value that imperfection can bring towards your production. I’m about to start my yearly coverage of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe – a daily show that runs each day of the month long festival featuring news, chat, reviews and interviews. … [Read more]

Stay Outside Your Comfort Zone

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Stay outside your comfort zone! It’s one of the most important things you can do with any new media site, be it a blog, podcast or customised video channel. You can change the product at any point. It could be radical, or more likely it will be a little tweak here, some reworking of an … [Read more]

Get Your Blog Ready for BlogWorld New York

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You’re probably going to this week’s BlogWorld NY to meet people, to forge new links for your business, to put yourself “on display”, or a mix of all the above. Before you head in to the Convention Center, you’ll probably check yourself out in the mirror, making sure you’re at your best. Have you done … [Read more]

Learn to Talk on Your Podcast by Listening

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What is a podcast? I’m going to be asking that question at next week’s Blog World Expo in New York, and I suspect there will be a different answer from everyone I ask. What I am pretty sure about is that when you look at the content, it’; going to boil down to people talking … [Read more]

One piece of advice? Do it live.

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When people who are starting out in podcasting ask me for one piece of advice, I don’t talk about equipment or applications, technology or social network marketing. I go for something that’s even simpler than that. Something that can not only get them started down one fruitful path of podcasting, but one that will continue … [Read more]

Hello, I’m Ewan Spence. You’ve Never Head of Me Before

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Let’s start with a simple statement, as I stand and look at myself in a metaphorical mirror. You don’t know me. There we go, simple as that. I’m just a name, but think about this – you already know a lot about me. The first is that Rick and the team at BlogWorld must think … [Read more]

The Book of BlogWorld: Part 2

How to get started in blogging? Ewan and Cthulhu take a look through the Book of Blogworld, used last year to capture the souls, errr, thoughts of bloggers at the Las Vegas Blog World and New Media Expo conference. Stay tuned for next week’s installment, and in the meantime visit Ewan at his blog!

The Book of BlogWorld: Part 1

Ewan Spence and Cthulhu take a look at the Book of Blogworld, used last year to capture the souls, errr, the thoughts (!) of bloggers at the 2009 Las Vegas BlogWorld and New Media Expo conference. Stay tuned for next week’s installment, and in the meantime visit Ewan at his blog!

Ewan Spence Interviews me at SxSW

If you were to charge there is a certain amount of navel gazing in the blogosphere and at events like SxSW you would be right. The fact is when events like SxSW and BlogWorld happen it gives us new media content creators a chance to meet up with old friends, make some new ones and … [Read more]