Awakened Voice

I’ve been curious about the Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as Amazon S3, for a while now. So this weekend I sat down and walked through the steps of getting started with the service with the help of an article called Scalable Media Hosting With Amazon S3. The process was easier than I thought [...]

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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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 [...]

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 got a nice note from Dries Buytaert this morning. Dries is the founder and maintainer of Drupal. He thinks my Drupal 5 Overview Tour, “…makes for a great introduction!”
I’m thankful for Dries’ (and many others) contributions in building this excellent platform. And since I can’t code a lick I figured that this was the [...]

I’ve been working hard while at DrupalCampNYC creating a new Drupal 5 screencast for the Learning Center. It’s a bit long but Drupal does so much it’s really hard to be comprehensive in a short amount of time. So if you’ve got about 22 minutes then stop by the Drupal 5 Tour.
[tags]Social Media, Lessons, Screencast, [...]