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NaPodPoMo: 30 days of utterz

Connie Reece — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:32:49 +0000

I have accepted Jennifer Navarette’s challenge to podcast every day for the month of November. If you want to know more about National Podcast Post Month, visit the official NaPodPoMo group site.

Rather than create a new blog post here for each podbit, I’ve added the utterz widget to the sidebar. Click the blue box on the right to listen. Or, you can visit my page and subscribe there. Click the orange RSS icon next to CONNIE’S UTTERZ. And leave a reply while you’re there, okay?

Also, if you’re a Twitter follower of conniereece, each day’s offering will be automatically posted there with a link.

Thanks for listening.

Got the Munchies? Have a Media Snack

Connie Reece — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:02:02 +0000

A new new media friend, Connie Bensen, tagged me on a meme started by one of my favorite bloggers, Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang.

Jeremiah posed the original question: Do you respect media snackers? And he defined them as “folks who consume small bits of information, data or entertainment when, where, and how they want. If you want to be part of their lives youâ€™ve got to respect them.”

Here’s my response, in the form of … a media snack.

(Note: RSS readers may need to click through to the blog to listen to the audio file.)

As mentioned in the audio, I am tagging the following bloggers: Jim Long and Geoff Livingston from Washington, D.C.; Lee Hopkins and John Johnston from “down under” in Australia; and two of the younger generation of PR practitioners, Paull Young and Kait Swanson.

Watch for their responses. And here’s your chance to answer the question — in the comments. Are you a consumer of media snacks? Do you cater to media snackers on your blog or podcast?

UPDATE 10-27-07 I am tagging Drew McLellan after the fact. I’m behind on feed reading (even with my RSS diet) and just discovered his recent post about providing a steady stream of snack-sized messages.

How to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

Connie Reece — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:08:40 +0000

This weekend Darren Rowse asked Problogger readers these questions:

When was your biggest day of traffic?
Where did the traffic come from?
What (if anything) did you do in order for it to happen?

My answers:

May 16, 2007 – Podbit 001 – Why I Switched to NBC News.
Biggest traffic source: Twitter; second: Google.
Fresh, original content. First-ever audio file posted. I promoted it through Twitter and a few personal e-mails to the people I linked to in the post.

When I post something I believe is worthy of attention, I mention it on Twitter and provide a TinyURL link. I only have about 100 followers, but they are a very engaged, influential group. So the Twitter link to my first Podbit file pulled more traffic to the site than any other source.

Chris Brogan often promotes a particular blog post on Twitter. And even though I am subscribed to his RSS feed, I usually see his “tweet” letting me know about the post before it shows up in my reader. So what do I do? I click on the Twitter link and go directly to his blog to read.

My question: how are you promoting you blog in general or specific posts in particular?

Podbit 001 – Why I Switched to NBC News

Connie Reece — Wed, 16 May 2007 18:07:33 +0000

Kelley Burrus and I have embarked on a new adventure: we’re creating a podcast, called Podversation. Because we’re novices, we’re still in the learning stages of audio production, figuring out how to edit various recorded pieces together, then add podsafe music and voiceovers to make an enjoyable listening experience.

In the meantime, we will release individual audio files. Podversations will be longer interviews and discussions; Podbits are “audio appetizers” — tantalizing, bite-size snacks of opinion or observation to whet your appetite for conversation.

In this first podbit, I describe how my Twitter pal Jim Long influenced me to change my news-viewing habits. Click to listen, and let me know what you think in the comments.

By the way, the audio player I’ve used here is a free service from Evoca, one of the sponsors of the SOBCon conference. Evoca appears to be drop-dead easy to use, and I can’t wait to explore the social networking capabilities of the site as well as its recording and uploading features.Shout-out to Diego Orjuela, COO and co-founder of Evoca, whom I met in Chicago and with whom I had to share my most embarrassing moment as part of a group exercise. He’s not gonna tell, though, because I know his deep, dark secrets too. NOTE: If you’re reading this in an RSS reader, you may need to click through to the site to hear the audio file.