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"When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'." Groucho Marx

Audio Blogging

Tools For Increasing Engagement

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I am jammed for time so this is going to be a hit and run post. If things work as I hope you should see a media player below containing a very short podcast that touches upon Postmatic and the blog as well as me promising to provide a written update here ASAP.

I don’t know if the media will work within the Postmatic emails that the subscribers here receive so the only way to listen might be by coming to the blog.

I understand if you don’t make it over for that but I do have a favor to ask. I am interested in hearing from you regarding the content here and whether you have a preference regarding the topics covered.

If you do, I’d love for you to share it within the comments.

Thanks, and I’ll see you here later on today when I stop running.

listen to ‘Tools For Increasing Engagement’ on audioBoom

P.S. If you want to learn more aboutPostmatic you can check out It Is What Every Blogger Wants.

P.P.S. I am proud of Life Is About Painting A Picture and How Do You Catch A Dragon? Feel free to check those out too.

Mr. Spock, Friends & Blog Comments

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Kirk & Spock

listen to ‘Mr. Spock, Friends & Blog Comments’ on audioBoom

For those who don’t want or can’t listen to the audio above:

After almost 11 years of blogging I have used and or wrestled with a million different commenting systems. Each time I have made a switch it was with the goal of making it easier for people to comment, deal with spam and try to build community.

Every system has their pros and cons.

This week two different people told me that DISQUS is creating issues for them and because of this they are unable to comment so I am curious if there are others who are having trouble.

What Kind Of Friend Do You Want To Be?

Earlier this month I ran a post about friendship called What Kind Of Friend Do You Want To Be?

It included the goodbye between Kirk and Spock. Since Leonard Nimoy died today I thought about it again.

Live long and prosper.

Humping, Cars, Tools & Technology

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I had a ’77 Camaro that was a lighter blue than this one. I miss it.

Audio blogging has been one of my favorite tools for building engagement with readers.

Those of you who have been around for a while know I first got into it when Blogger had their partnership with Audioblogger circa 2004-06 or so.

Back then if you embedded voice into your posts it made you really cool. Today it just makes you a regular blogger.

Anyhoo when Audioblogger went the way of the dinosaurs I spent time searching for and trying out a variety of alternatives.

A few years ago I started using Audioboom (previously Audioboo) for my audio blogging and overall I have been pretty happy with it with one exception.

The Android app was awful so I couldn’t do any sort of mobile audioblogging using the platform but that changed today.

I downloaded the new and improved Audioboom app for Android because I wanted to see if it provided a significant improvement over the old app or not.

The post below was recorded on my Galaxy Note 4 using the new app. The quality of the recording is far superior to what was rendered using the prior app.

Midnight Greetings- Blogging, Comments & Aging

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listen to ‘Midnight Greetings- Blogging, Comments & Aging’ on audioBoom

A couple of comments to share with you:

1) It is hard to do these audio posts with people sleeping in the other room. I am not good at whispering so I tried to speak softly so I wouldn’t wake anyone. I sound lethargic here.

2) It is too bad we don’t have the old files from the AudioBlogger days. You could have listened to the  Shmata Queen try to convince me she isn’t crazy. 😉