JASON
VAN ORDEN::
PODCASTING CONSULTANT
Saturday, March 08th, 2008 by Jason Van Orden
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.
Friday, March 07th, 2008 by Jason Van Orden
Recently Fred Castaneda interviewed me on his podcast for entrepreneurs and grilled me about how I went from being a software engineer, to an internet marketer to a podcaster to a resident of Argentina.
In this interview you’ll find: Continue reading »
Thursday, March 06th, 2008 by Jason Van Orden
I’ve been watching with much anticipation the whisperings about a project called BuddyPress that “will transform a vanilla installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform.” This would be extremely cool. Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, has now taken BuddyPress into their fold to see its development through. I can’t wait to see this thing release.
This would allow you to create your own branded social network with the flexibility of WordPress. In addition, it would be compatible with thousands of free plugins that are sure to pop up–very cool indeed.
Apple has produced a short video that explains what a podcast is and how to subscribe (in iTunes of course). They invite you to link to it from your web site as a resource. It would be much cooler if I could post it to my own site, but of course they want the inbound links. I wouldn’t mind something like this from the Zune team as well ;).
It’s no secret that I’m a huge WordPress fan. While I’m a proponent of installing it on your own web site, WordPress.com (their free hosted service) has now become an excellent choice for a hobbyist or “dabbler” to have a blog, feed and now at least modest media hosting.
They’ve upgraded their free service to provide 3 GB of storage. Files are hosted on Amazon S3 and bandwidth is not metered meaning you won’t be penalized for the amount of traffic you get. I’ll be revamping my podcast tutorial to use WordPress.com as a free starter solution.
Libsyn recently announced that they have revamped the user interface for their podcast statistics. They are also going back through and reprocessing the old logs to improve accuracy. As soon as reprocessing is done, the new stats and interface will be released.
Rich Harrington, who I have the pleasure of presenting with at various events, is the co-author of a new book
Wednesday, March 05th, 2008 by Jason Van Orden
I’m pleased to announce that my proposal to present The Magic Triad at New Media Expo 2008 has been accepted. I am one of 52 speakers chosen. I’m excited to see who else will be presenting. They always have a stellar line-up.
Apparently this year there were 700 proposals sent in, more than any previous year. In addition, it was even harder for them to choose since all panels have been removed and only presentations by a single person are being scheduled–providing fewer available slots.
Monday, March 03rd, 2008 by Jason Van Orden
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.
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 by Jason Van Orden
Looks like the deadline to submit to speak is this Friday for the New Media Expo. I’ve procrastinated long enough. So, now I turn to you to get your input.
What do you think I should propose to speak about at the 2008 New Media Expo?
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 by Jason Van Orden
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
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 by Jason Van Orden
Yesterday Apple sent out an email with important information for those who publish content through the iTunes music store. To make your videos look great on Apple TV, here’s what you need to know.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 by Jason Van Orden
How would you like to learn from top social media experts without having to even leave the comfort of your own home?
All you need is a phone and you can get access to 28 presentations from some of social media’s finest. These are going to be very content-rich expos
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 by Jason Van Orden
Recently I posted that my wife and I were moving to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Well we’ve finally arrived and are starting to feel settled in. It’s time to bring my blog and podcast silence to the end. Thank you for your patience (if I can be so presumptuous to assume that anyone noticed my absence).
I want to say thank you to the dozens of people who emailed me with well-wishes for this new adventure in our life. It’s cool to feel connected to so many people through social media. In addition, I’ve had several people from Buenos Aires who listen to my podcasts who emailed me to meet up. That is a pretty amazing phenomenon to me.
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