Awakened Voice

Despite what some folks might believe, the market for podcasts is growing at a healthy pace.
Feedburner issued a report earlier this week that shows significant growth.
And now LibSyn has issued their own report which comes to the very same conclusions.
Seems like the reports of the death of podcasting have been greatly exaggerated to say the [...]

My pals far east and west of here on The Hobson and Holtz report pointed out that General Motors has launched a new blog called the FYI Blog.
According to the FYI blog website, ” The FYI Blog is about GM news and opinion, by GM employees and others. We look forward to hearing your ideas.”
What [...]

If you’ve got a few moments please stop by and listen to my social media podcast, A Billion Voices.
This week’s episode features commentary on using social technologies to boost efficiencies in areas of your business that are not traditionally considered to be profit centers.
[tags]Social Media, A Billion Voices, Podcast, Podcasting[/tags]

One of the challenges that many folks new to social media face is figuring out the best way to subscribe to RSS feeds. There are a myriad of choices for subscription and it stands to reason that people could get frustrated by all the options.
The best option initially might be for people to have the [...]

The Corporate Podcasting Summit is taking place on June 20 and 21 in San Francisco, CA.
According to the conference website, “The Corporate Podcasting Summit aims to [...]

USA Today is running a story on how marketers are using the fast growing social video site YouTube as a direct channel to a worldwide audience.
According to the story, Nike, Dimension Films and others are uploading their own short video clips to the service. Evidently those clips are getting a lot views with the trailer [...]

The Wall Street Journal is certainly one of the most widely respected publications in the world of business. They’ve recently adopted podcasting as a method for distributing information.
I was recently discussing businesses using podcasts with the owner of a travel related concern. Within a few minutes the person on the other side of the table [...]

Wordpress.com has added a handy new feature to their hosted blogging service. They already had a page that displayed the number of hits to the blog website along with referring pages. Now they’re providing stats on how people use your RSS feed as well.
More detailed stats are always a good thing and a very nice [...]

Steve Rubel and The Social Software Weblog report that Newsweek (in partnership with MSNBC it seems) has launched a branded, online RSS feed aggregator powered by Newsgator.
The aggregator is seeded with a variety of Newsweek RSS feeds that are published using Feedburner. You can also add your own content to the reader if you like.
My [...]

As if you hadn’t heard. But just in case you didn’t, Google has opened up the beta for their long awaited social calendar application over at http://calendar.google.com. I’m a 30 Boxes user right now but I will be giving Google’s new app a try just the same.
[tags]Social Media, Google Calendar, Beta[/tags]