Awakened Voice

Speaking of Drupal. I’ve just added a screencast overview of the new features in Drupal 6 to the Awakened Voice Learning Center. Drupal 6 has some nifty new features including OpenID support, an improved menu system, a streamlined install process and some groundbreaking localization features. There’s a lot more that’s new too.
One new feature set [...]

What can I say? I can’t help but document processes that I see as important in building sites around Drupal. The result is a video tutorial on creating a custom content type (via CCK) and a corresponding view using Drupal.
You can find the full resolution QuickTime version over in the Awakened Voice Learning Center. Or [...]

I have posted a new tour over in the Awakened Voice Learning Center. It is a 15 minute look at the Miro open source video player. Play it below or get the full resolution version over on the original post.

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Play the web is the trademarked phrase that the makers of Songbird put front and center on their website. You can do a lot more than play the web with Songbird though. You can play the web and manage media on your computer.
I discovered Songbird recently and I’ve been very enamored with their free, open [...]

I have added a new tutorial to the Learning Center. This one shows you how to add video to a site based on the Drupal content management platform. Check it out here.
[tags]Social Media, Drupal, Video, Screencast, Educational, How To, Open Source[/tags]

The act of embedding video to a WordPress post is theoretically simple. You just copy some text and paste it into the post editor. Not so fast!
In practice those little snippets surrounded by ‘embed’ tags are a pain when combined with the WYSIWYG editor. My latest tutorial over in the Awakened Voice Learning Center shows [...]

I’ve been quiet, but also working hard at setting up a social media lesson archive over at Blip.tv.
I’m also leveraging Blip’s new show player to create a place in the learning center where you can get all the lessons at once. Check out the lesson player page here. Or just look below.

The Drupal content management platform has a nifty block system that allows you to drop a wide variety of content around the pages on your site. This 16-minute screencast in the Awakened Voice Learning Center gives you a closer look at how these functions work.
[tags]Social Media, Video, Screencast, Drupal, How To[/tags]

There’s a lot of buzz lately around the short message broadcasting service known as Twitter. So I figured I’d get to work on a screencast to show people what its all about.
So when you’ve got a few minutes please head over to the Awakened Voice Learning Center and take the Twitter Tour.
[tags]Social Media, Twitter, Video, [...]

I’ve been a daily user of Netvibes for months now. I think this is a great personal information aggregator and start page. So I made a video tutorial on setting up your own Netvibes page. If you have a look you’ll see how easy it is to get organized using their free service.
[tags]Social Media, Start [...]