Painting, Letter writing, Collage, Podcasting, all at once. Totally usual behaviour right?
Stories are stories – the important this is to create and then share (if’n ya want).
Be your own master of all crafts/media.
In a message to Steve Pratt, a podcast producer and former of CBC Radio 3 who gave a stellar speech about “building the worst radio station” (at Northern Voice conf 2009) meaning breaking all the ‘norms’ to create something special (which he and colleagues did and got hosed anyhow).
Now with a podcast for brands company, he’s fantastically successful and podcasting is somehow a big deal (i was a wee bit too early and erratic) – i wrote him this note in reply to a post about “best practices” for podcasting at some point and some place. Can’t really recall where and when (not recently) but hey, here it is for the record.
Bonus: photo by Liz Hargreaves of “Steve Pratt prior to his talk Making the Worst. Radio Station. EVER. Here seen chatting with Robert Scoble and Kris Krug”
Ergo:
Meaning to mention: I use the wisdom gained from your legendary “how to make the worst radio station in the world” talk when making my podcasts as-in: I never bother to give a URL, no sponsors, no endless reminders to subscribe and review, no “shout outs” – much of the time I forget to even tell the title of the show… This is what meta-data is for right? I mean people are smart… They found your show after all, I don’t need to rub it in and remind them with all the self referential “meta banter”.
I think: Audiences are self-organizing, and they know what to do – so, treat them with respect, keep em sincerely interested and all the rest falls into place. Fck stats, make pods.
Anyway, you are awesome, carry-on.
On a summer Saturday, Dave heads to the BC Floorball’s Challenge Tournament to learn whassup with fast-paced indoor hockey sport and watch the Swiss Selects soundly defeat the Canadian Waveriders in an exhibition besides the 5-nation cup tournament. While there, Dave talks to Switzerland’s Simon and Simon (not to be confused with the TV show), rookie player Boris Mann,Stewart “The Fossil” from England (and another player from London) plus interviews with BC Floorball’s Greg Beaudin (AKA Billy Tucker) and the “godfather” of Canadian Floorball, Finland’s Juha Mikola. Topics include rules and regulations, Swiss military training, beautifulness of Vancouver, pro players in Europe, equipment, sportsmanship and beer.
Grab Swiss Dominate BC Floorball Challenge – Canucks Outsider #55 (.mp3, 34:23, 32MB)
Subscribe to Canucks Outsider Feed – iTunes
Kris Krug‘s (Vancouver Photographer) kickin’ at BC Floorball flickr page
via More Photos from the 1st Annual BCFF Floorball Challenge
BC Floorball’s Tournament Coverage
Richard Eriksson’s Week of Floorball report on Urban Vancouver and Youtube’d floorball video
The Province (via BC floorball Federation on esports)
North Shore News (via BC Floorball Fancy Footwork)
Action from the 1st Annual BCFF Floorball Tournament in May. Board Members Greg Beaudin and Blair Zimmerman compete for the ball as Adrian Zimmerman and David Senn look on. (Photo courtesy ofNorth Shore News)
Greg Beaudin, President of BC Floorball (greg.beaudin@bcfloorball.com) says,
“The Future of Floorball in Canada, proven by the results of the day, is not in the hands of the skilled hockey players turned Floorball enthusiasts but rather in the youth who can grow up learning the skills and tactics of the game as the Swiss team graciously made us realize with the thumping that they handed us. We hope the spectators enjoyed watching true Floorball skill and we thank them for coming out to watch. Floorball is an amazing team sport for its accessibility, versatility, affordability, energy and sportsmanship. It is totally Gym friendly and we hope that schools and community centers are quick to value Floorball as an ideal, safe, and economical Gym sport for girls and boys. We hope that all of you can spread the good word and build the buzz for Floorball.
Play Floorball in BC – Drop in an to experience the co-ed fun – new players welcome and may borrow gear.
When and Where: Register – Poster
Monday Night Floorball – $7 Mondays 6pm-7.45pm at the Roundhouse in downtown Vancouver
[UPDATE] Summer hiatus Thursday Night Floorball – $7 Thursdays, 7PM Mulgrave School in West Vancouver
More Floorball:
bcfloorball.com – BC Floorball
playfloorball.com – Floorball Canada
floorballontario.com – Floorball in Ontario
floorballpro.com – Floorball Equipment
Swiss Zimmerman vs. Canadian Zimmerman (by Kris Krug)
Bogus Coverage (no permalinks, tsk tsk …, just here for posterity and shame):
After debuting with a guest recording for the Naked Marketers direct from the Social Media Clubhouse Party bus at SXSW with John Biehler, I joined 2 of the hosts – Pete Wright and Dane Christensen – of this straight shooting marketing conversation podcast a few weeks later.
Give a listen to: Naked Marketers ep 5, On the Poor Boat
After a roadshow for my day job to Seattle, Austin and Toronto, we had plenty to talk about community building plus practical anecdotes demonstrating about the importance of content, creativity, inclusivity and sincerity in your social media powered outreach efforts.
Also laughed with co-host Dane Christensen about some college day community building projects including the Long Hair’s Club at at community college in Utah and his efforts to finagle a travel scholarship to Northern Voice conference.
Note: While i share remarks about my day-job, my opinions are my own and should not be confused with official company information.
Episode Blurb:
{snip} Our guest on the show this week is the one and only Dave Olsen, community wrangler from HootSuite, who fills us in on just how to build a compelling and effective community and social marketing campaign on the cheap.
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So you have an audio file ready to go?
Did you Levelate it? Levelator http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator
A complete show pack includes:
* Episode – 64 or 128K stereo mp3, levelated
* ID3 tags (title, description, lyrics, art)
* Album art (photo edited in PS or flickr/picnik)
* Blog post with show notes/links with footer
Now onto Publishing
First, ya gotta put the file somewhere – usually via FTP or web upload (archive.org)
Second, create a Blogpost for the epiosde (i use wordpress.com) add album art, description, related links, “show notes”
Third, in the blog post, create an absolute link to the .mp3 file – whereever it lives + add to a category
Fourth, preview, publish, hurrah!
Tuning your Feed
Keys to a solid episode
1) Tell a story (often requires rearranging clips to create a narrative – add some music to give the folks time to reflect and chill as needed)
2) Remove douche-baggery (yeah sometimes there are false starts, stupid comments, missteps, self-indulgent crap and people calling “dave” – all that goes)
3) Sonically comfortable (export as AIFF, normalize/compress using Levelator, then convert to .mp3, listen and re-export til it sounds sweetopian)
Toolbox
– Same as Father Roderick – gives great stereo separation for sound-seeing for a USB option
Delving into the production of podcasts, Dave reviews various methods and equipment options for capturing sounds, then getting audio into a machine to edit, editing software choices, finding music and ambient noise, and finally outputting a quality creative dispatch out into the world via a blog and podcast aggregator.
As shared with the Young Gunz youth group at Purple Thistle Institute in Vancouver, Canada, Nov. 13, 2009.
Connect the wires for: Creating your Podcast at Purple Thistle, part 3 (30MB, 192K mp3, 21:45)
In order to generate ideas for podcasts, Dave converses with Young Gunz youth group about their topics of interests and passions, and riffs about turning these curiosities into compelling shows in part 2 of the workshop.
As told to the Young Gunz youth group at Purple Thistle community centre in Vancouver, Canada, Nov. 13, 2009.
Get a pencil for: Ideation for Podcasts at Purple Thistle, part 2 (45MB, 192K mp3, 32:32)
Waiting for the Seabus, Dave catches up with a few game recaps (Washington Nashville, Minnesota, Colorado and Dallas) and chats about Jacques Lemaire’s tan, Rolston’s language, and identifies Canuck killers and recounts Nucks struggle to hold a lead and close out games.
Canucks Outsider #43 (24:16, .mp3, 22.4MB)
Plus he comes across a talented and enthusiastic busker named Clayton, playing the Wayne Gretzky montge song before heading across the inlet to the North Shore mountains to watch the Nucks take on the Ducks (insert foreboding organ music here) and encouraging a listen to Choogleon podcast.
More music in this episode by The (savant-like) Numbskulz of Pe Ell Washington and Sam Densmore of Portland, OR (also the co-host of Mastan Music Hour podcast and a recording engineer at Mastan Music).
RT @rainzine: really excited for the up and coming Podcasting workshop with @uncleweed at the @purple_thistle ! #youngunz #mentor #media
Find the Hero Dossier #podcast at @caseorganic http://ow.ly/wGvb The Cylons have a plan #freshmedia betcha @kk will enjoy on the plane too
The “Hero Dossier” podcast from #freshmedia features: Features Samuel Pepys, RMS Carpathia, Amber Case, Thomas Paine, J. Garcia, Mudhoney…
+ and other personal luminaries liberated from an envelope #freshmedia PS Thanks to @shermanscorner @penmachine & busker clayton for tunes
