LinkedIn Recruiter Podcast

"A Marvellously Nice Chap"

@LittleSmasher we are currently editing the raw audio from a recording session with Chris Brown, a LinkedIn account manager.  A marvellously nice chap to interview he was too, with some interesting tips on how to optimise one's LinkedIn profile and the sorts of apps that are out there to help one keep, literally, linked in.

The trouble with this type of podcast is that one tends to get distracted by the quality information instead of focussing on the job at hand.  Edit, edit, edit.

Still, it'll be good for the scripting process, I'm sure.  That's later.

Vintage Books understands podcasting

Vintage Books are using podcasting in a great way that supports and promotes their sales. Talking to their Authors and getting them to read passages from their books, or discussing issues raised in their books brings the listener closer to the company's products.

Whether the listener is a regular buyer of books or not, creating this engaging podcast and generating a regular following means that when it is time for purchasing decisions to be made it will be Vintage Books at the top of the list of considerations.

Well done Vintage.

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The ‘Vintage Podcast’ is a monthly book programme with interviews, discussions and features on subjects ranging from literary fiction to graphic novels, cookery to crime fiction, history and travel to sport, biography and poetry. It comes from the publishers of Sebastian Faulks, Jo Nesbo, Nigella Lawson, Haruki Murakami, Ian McEwan, Joe Sacco, Anne Enright, Mark Haddon and many more.

Vintage Podcast

Podcast 8 15/04/2011 Featuring: Martin Amis, David Lodge, Evie Wyld, Jane Shilling, Rebecca Asher, William Goldsmith and Annalena McAfee listen to podcast

Podcast 7 17/03/2011 Featuring Jo Nesbo, Michael Longley, Maxine Hong Kingston, Evie Wyld, Kevin Barry, Leo Benedictus and Annalena McAfee listen to podcast

Podcast 5 07/02/2011 Featuring Julian Barnes, Anthony Quinn, Susan Hill and Brighton Rock director Rowan Joffe listen to podcast

Podcast 4 15/12/2010 Featuring Nigella Lawson, Richard Briers, Fatima Bhutto, Blake Morrison, Alison Weir, Danny Kelly and Milton Crawford listen to podcast Read more at www.vintage-books.co.uk

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Well done that man #Quakebook Pass it on

Been cobbled together by the lovely brother of a lovely lady from Leicester. He lives in Japan and is 'Our Man in Abiko'. He managed to put this together within days of the event with the help of people from all over the world. Yoko Ono contributes. Nice one.

Register your interest for a hard copy. Or just buy the soft copy.

"The Quakebook - A Twitter-sourced charity book about how the Japanese Earthquake at 2:46 on March 11, 2011 affected us all"

http://www.quakebook.org/

2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake [Kindle Edition]

Product Description

In just over a week, a group of unpaid professional and citizen journalists who met on Twitter created a book to raise money for Japanese Red Cross earthquake and tsunami relief efforts. In addition to essays, artwork and photographs submitted by people around the world, including people who endured the disaster and journalists who covered it, 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake contains a piece by Yoko Ono, and work created specifically for the book by authors William Gibson, Barry Eisler and Jake Adelstein. “The primary goal,” says the book's editor, a British resident of Japan, “is to record the moment, and in doing so raise money for the Japanese Red Cross Society to help the thousands of homeless, hungry and cold survivors of the earthquake and tsunami. The biggest frustration for many of us was being unable to help these victims. I don’t have any medical skills, and I’m not a helicopter pilot, but I can edit. A few tweets pulled together nearly everything – all the participants, all the expertise – and in just over a week we had created a book including stories from an 80-year-old grandfather in Sendai, a couple in Canada waiting to hear if their relatives were okay, and a Japanese family who left their home, telling their young son they might never be able to return." ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of the price you pay (net of VAT, sales and other taxes) goes to the Japanese Red Cross Society to aid the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars 100% of the price of this book goes to the Japan Red Cross Society!, 12 April 2011 By  Derek J. Johnston "windhoek" (Glasgow) - See all my reviews This review is from: 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake (Kindle Edition) First things first, 100% of the price of this book goes to the Japan Red Cross Society, so please buy it.

The book itself is comprised of lots (about 100) of short stories that focus on many different aspects of the earthquake and subsequent events. Some accounts focus on the role of the media and social networking, some on the earthquake and how it affected them or people they know and others still, on the people of Japan who have shown indefatigable resiliance and unity in the face of, what can only be described as, truly catastrophic events! There are also various images and illustrations peppered throughout the book which capture moments and ideas appropriate to the book's content. If you've seen footage of the tsunami and its devastation, you'll understand why there are few first-hand accounts of it included in the book. In fact, most stories are from people who experienced the earthquake from the relative safety of Tokyo or other modernised parts of Japan. There are also some international contributions from people concerned about the people of Japan - sometimes particular people. At a press conference, the book's editor 'Our man in Abiko' said that if the book is ever revised to include additional content, those who purchased it beforehand won't have to pay again to access it. Instead, it will be available as an update to download and augment the original book. This book has enhanced my sympathy and affection for Japan and her people, please buy it so she can blossom once again. Read more at www.amazon.co.uk

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Podcasting's coming of age?

Indeed, the hobbyists and enthusiasts who first enjoyed and created podcasts in 2004/2005, just for the mere sake of it, all seem to have disappeared.

Or at the very least, they have turned to other forms of internet social communication to expose their technological know-how alongside their personal vulnerabilities.

Whichever dark, damp corner of the internet that has absorbed them we, at LittleSmasher, hope they're able to download and enjoy the current crop of downloadable episodic audio in the knowledge that without their early compulsions to pursue poorly performed and pitiably produced podcasts none of the current quality might be here at all.

Chris Salmon, from the Guardian, suggests a few podcasts you might like try from this obvious legacy.

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Click to download: podcast nostalgia

It's not quite over yet for a tried, tested and trusty format

Chris Salmon guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 16 March 2011 14.00 GMT Article history

The buzz around podcasts has calmed considerably over the last couple of years, with social networks and mobile apps capturing the attention of labels and musicians keen to embrace the latest thing. Which is a pity, because subscribing to a good, free podcast remains a terrific way of receiving regular content directly to your computer or mobile.

Happily, there are still some great music-related podcasts which you can subscribe to, for free, via iTunes. One of the best is the Live Music podcast from Australian radio station Triple J. At least once a week, the station uploads live recordings from one of two regular strands. The first, Live at the Wireless, features around 20 minutes of highlights from a concert, recently including performances by the Rapture, Interpol and the National (all of which are well worth hearing). Meanwhile, the other strand, Like a Version, sees acts playing studio sessions that culminate with a cover version. The best features Plan B, who unleashes a cracking reworking of Kanye West's Runaway. Subscribe to forthcoming episodes and download any of the previous 24 from bit.ly/jjjpodcast.

London-based internet radio station RadioNowhere also has a variety of excellent podcasts available via iTunes, at bit.ly/rnpodcasts. Standouts include the weekly Filmic show, which offers an hour of music from soundtracks and scores, and the Christopher Laird Show, another weekly programme with songs from the best new, independent artists. Both shows play tracks in full, something that podcasts often haven't been allowed to do because of rights restrictions. But, given that each of Laird's shows features an interview with a guest artist – this week it was British Sea Power, last week it was the Joy Formidable – it would seem that the industry is offering tacit approval of RadioNowhere's full-songs approach.

With Mumford & Sons and Laura Marling driving a renewed interest in folk, Jon Boden chose a good time to launch his A Folk Song a Day podcast. In June last year, the violinist, singer and Bellowhead member, committed to podcasting a traditional folk song every day for an entire year via iTunes at bit.ly/jbpodcast. And that's exactly what he's done, with Tuesday's a cappella take on Billy Don't You Weep For Me leaving him just 100 days from completing the project. Read more at www.guardian.co.uk

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Learning about the Makuleke People of Pafuri through the editing of another South African Podcast

Kruger2Canyons.com have commissioned LittleSmasher to make another podcast for their website. It features the model of South African land restitution that is the Makuleke concession in the Kruger National Park, now benefiting the people from whom it was taken in 1969.



Interesting stuff.

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Interviews Podcast 1 Podcast 2

K2C PODCAST #1 | Kruger's SINGITA LEBOMBO "24 hours at a luxury safari lodge" Kruger2Canyons.com spent a fabulous day exploring and documenting Singita's Private Reserve, deep inside (but still part of) the Kruger National Park on the border with Mozambique. Read more at www.kruger2canyons.com

 

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LittleSmasher was there first!

After six years of podcasting professionally, LittleSmasher proclaims that the medium is still being 'discovered' by those who have an audience to reach.

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The podcast has a weekly audience of 35,000 and is an important marketing tool for his live work. "It's nothing like a TV or radio show in terms of the numbers of people listening but they have chosen to download it and it's a more intimate experience. This is the thing most responsible for my audience doubling in size on tour."

Being independently produced, As It Occurs to Me offers Herring artistic licence. "It's so hard to get on radio and TV and the whole Sachsgate thing has made it harder to do interesting and challenging stuff," he says. "The nice thing about podcasts is that if people don't like them they don't download them. There are no compliance issues."

One of the most successful exponents is Richard Herring, who produces two weekly podcasts

Podcasts: Why the future sounds funny

Podcasts are bringing stand-up comedy to new audiences. As the BBC gets in on the act, Frank Skinner and Richard Herring give Ian Burrell the lowdown on downloads Read more at www.independent.co.uk

 

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Free Podcasts for Christmas

...just in case you're interested.

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Short stories podcasts: 12 tales for Christmas

Philip Pullman. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe

Saturday's an exciting day for us in the audio department. We're launching our new series of podcasts, but podcasts with a difference. We've invited some of the country's top authors to read us their favourite short story by another writer. So you'll hear Philip Pullman reading Chekhov, Rose Tremain reading Yiyun and William Boyd reading JG Ballard, and then discuss why they chose those particular stories.

We're running 12 of these from Saturday every day until Christmas. But it's been a project that we've been working on since the summer, when the Guardian's Review editor Lisa Allardice came up with the idea. She says: "We're familiar with audio books, but with writers choosing their favourite story they bring something of themselves to the reading.

Producer Tim Maby was surprised at how authors are now so used to reading aloud they even move the microphones to where it best suits them: "Anne Enright, for instance, likes to hug it." Tim says Rose Tremain commented that all writers like showing off, while Philip Pullman revealed he loves talking in to a mic.

these recordings really show why podcasting is so much better than radio: they will remain on our website and on iTunes and be a resource for people forever. You don't have to be sitting next to your wireless at a certain time to catch them.

Saturday 11 December: Philip Pullman reading The Beauties by Anton Chekhov

Sunday 12 December: William Boyd reading My Dream of Flying to Wake Island by JG Ballard

Monday 13 December: Anne Enright reading Fat by Raymond Carver

Tuesday 14 December: Colm Tóibín reading Music at Annahullion by Eugene McCabe

Wednesday 15 December: Margaret Drabble reading The Doll's House by Katherine Mansfield

Thursday 16 December: Jeanette Winterson reading The Night Driver by Italo Calvino

Friday 17 December: Rose Tremain reading Extra by Yiyun Li

Saturday 18 December: Julian Barnes reading Homage to Switzerland by Ernest Hemingway

Sunday 19 December: Tessa Hadley reading The Jungle by Elizabeth Bowen

Monday 20 December: Helen Dunmore reading My Oedipus Complex by Frank O'Connor

Tuesday 21 December: Ali Smith reading Conversation With My Father by Grace Paley

Wednesday 22 December: Helen Simpson reading The Kitchen Child by Angela Carter

Each podcast will be published at guardian.co.uk/books Read more at www.guardian.co.uk

 

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