Awakened Voice

Some of the projects that are happening under the Awakened Voice umbrella are discussed in the latest edition of my A Billion Voices Social Media podcast.
[tags]Social Media, Podcast, Podcasting[/tags]

In my recent post about podcast industry activity in the summer of 2006 I left out a new player in the game that has been ramping up over the last few months. Podcast.com has a very high profile domain name and they’re working on a very slick podcasting directory/community site.

I told you so.
Recently I stated in my post titled The New Rules of Podcasting - Part I, “You watch as advertisers make an end around and start producing their own podcasts instead of taking their chances on a rag tag bunch of indie media producers who night just screw up their message.”
Well, BMW is [...]

The unconference format comes to podcasting with the announcement of the PodCamp Boston conference to take place on September 9th and 10th of 2006.
According to the official PodCamp website, “PodCamp is a BarCamp-style meetup for podcasters and listeners, bloggers and readers, and new media types of all stripes.”
Venue details are to be announced but they [...]

“The network of contacts and friends I have made through blogging is quite unbelievable.”
The quote above crystallizes the reason why people with something to say need to get involved in blogging. It’s a pursuit that opens up whole new worlds for individuals and businesses.
The quote is from the Somewhat Frank blog written by Frank Gruber.
[tags]Social [...]

The summer of 2006 is heating up. Expect a boatload of Podcasting services and tools to launch between now and the Portable Media and Podcast Expo at the end of September. Some recent developments.
Already HereRecently launched podcast directory that uses a Digg style rating system to highlight popular podcasts. Inline preview of audio and [...]

I read an article this morning in the print version of the Wall Street Journal indicating that NBC Universal has struck a deal with YouTube to use their social video sharing community to promote NBC shows.
It was only a couple of months ago that NBC Uni was fuming over the presence of copyrighted content on [...]

Net Neutrality is a package of legislation that would supposedly protect individuals from companies that own the internet pipe. This proposed legislation is a reaction to the proposal by fiber owners like AT&T who are considering charging extra fees to companies like Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft in order to deliver their data to users. [...]

My very opinionated thoughts on the current state of Podcasting can be found on one of my other blogs over at Podcast NYC. I developed my thoughts over a couple of weeks and spread the new rules out over six posts.
The rules will be old soon so get ‘em while they’re hot!
Part I, II, III, [...]

The New Rules Of Podcasting.

Networks are a losing business model.
Signing away the exclusive rights to your podcast is a stupid thing to do.
Speaking at conferences does not qualify as an accomplishment.
Statistics and demographics are meaningless and useless.
Ninety percent of podcasting news is worthless.
What you knew last summer has almost certainly changed today.
iTunes is [...]