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Distracted by Fulfillment Factors

Last week I introduced the idea of identifying your fulfillment factors to help you be a better content creator, business owner and even liver of life.

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Survey Says

A while back I sent out a survey to the community to find out what podcast producers wanted to learn about most. I was intrigued by how things had changed since 2005 when I first started podcast consulting. The results also offer some very important insights for your own podcast.

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This post begins a series of posts that goes to the basis of everything I do as a podcaster and business owner. At first glance you may wonder why I’m sharing them on a blog about online content creation, but I guarantee they will help you produce better content, connect more effectively with your audience, make more money and have more fun!

Let’s talk about something that too many business owners either have too much of, have to little of or are controlled by when they don’t have any of it at all… (more…)

FeedBurner just announced a new feature that I’ve been wanting for quite awhile. Now you can transfer a feed from one account/login to another. If you’ve been using separate logins for different feeds, you know that it can be a pain to deal with. (Or maybe you were smarting than me and just used one account to begin with.) The process, however, is not as straight forward as outlined on their site.

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Does your WordPress theme keep changing back to the boring default theme?

Over on my Podcasting Underground I’m dealing with this ongoing frustration and I just learned other bloggers are faced with it as well. I go back into my WordPress admin and change back to my chosen theme, but then sometimes a soon as one day later it reverts to the default.

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This year I’m doing much less speaking for a number of reasons that I won’t go into in this post. The most obvious is that I am living outside of the country for most of the year.

The only time I plan to present in-person this year is at New Media Expo 2008 in Las Vegas (if my proposal is accepted). I’ll save my reasons for cutting down on speaking until another time, but here are the reasons why I DO want to speak at this event.

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Earlier this week I came across some information in Apple’s podcast specs that caught me off guard. I find out my podcast album art looks horrible on Apple TVs! Is yours ready for prime time? This affects both audio and video podcasters. If you want to look top notch…

Make Your Album Art 600×600 Pixels

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Over the weekend Podango sent out an email to their users stating that the official switch of the GigaVox system to their own servers was going to take place. Sadly, the notice came about 24 hours before the switch. I’d hoped to have time to offer more tips and guidance on the matter BEFORE the switch, but time didn’t allow. Here are a few pointers for those of you who still have questions or just haven’t gotten around to making the necessary changes.

The server switch is part of the acquisition of the Gigavox Audio Lite technology by Podango. It affects anyone who has been using the GigaVox Audio Lite system (now Podango Show Builder Lite) to publish their podcast. Until you make these changes, none of your GigaVox Audio/Podango Show Builder Lite published episodes will download or play.

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Have you ever played a podcast and it comes out sounding like a chipmunk (or the devil) recorded it? Fortunately the explanation for this is easy and so is the fix. The problem lies in the sample rate the audio file was recorded and saved at.

When you record digital audio (whether for a video or audio podcast) there

Kent Nichols, of the very popular and successful Ask a Ninja video podcast, has started a blog. I’d like to add some additional insights to his first post which brings up an important point