Episode 29--Take a Letter, Send a File, Is that a Coffee Job?

Episode29 - Take a letter, Send a File—
Is that a Coffee Job?
Kirsten Womack of Im-mack-ulate Impressions

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Show Notes

Kirsten recommends using sendthisfile.com for sending all of your files.
How Easy Is It?Enter the recipient's email address.Select the file.Click the SendThisFile button!The recipient receives a link to their file via email.No email attachments. No software to install.This is a great way to send large picture files, business plans, documents for a meeting.• No file size limit!
One of the guest asked how many files she can send?• No limit on files sent!
Another question: How many can I send at the same time?
Answer: up to five files at once.• What about security of your files and privacy.
Security same as email! It’s HIPPA compliant.
Techno Granny’s Research
How to Send a Microsoft Word File as an Attachment
1. Open Microsoft Word and create your document as you normally would.
2. Save your file as a Microsoft Word document.
3. Open your e-mail account and create an e-mail
4. Then click on the grey "Attach" button under your typed message.
5. On the screen that will come up, click on the grey "Browse" button.
6. And you will be taken to "My Documents," where you should have saved you’re the file that you want to send. . Double click on the file.
7. The name of your file will appear in the "Browse" Box. Then click on "Attach," and the file will appear in a box or as a hi-lighted item somewhere on your e-mail depending on your e-mail provider.
8. Then click "OK." You will be taken back to your e-mail and at the bottom of the page; you will see that your file has been attached.
9. Finally, click "Send," and your e-mail and attachment will be sent to your designated recipient in “Send to.”
10. You have successfully sent your attachment. That is all there is to it.


For those of you who must know the technical words for all of this, I culled this from Wikipedia:

FTP File Transfer Protocol
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia—See Below
This article is about the File Transfer Protocol standardized by the IETF. For other file transfer protocols, see File transfer protocol (disambiguation).
"FTP" redirects here. For other uses, see FTP (disambiguation).
FTP or File Transfer Protocol is used to transfer data from one computer to another over the Internet, or through a network.
Specifically, FTP is a commonly used protocol for exchanging files over any network that supports the TCP/IP protocol (such as the Internet or an intranet). There are two computers involved in an FTP transfer: a server and a client. The FTP server, running FTP server software, listens on the network for connection requests from other computers. The client computer, running FTP client software, initiates a connection to the server. Once connected, the client can do a number of file manipulation operations such as uploading files to the server, download files from the server, rename or delete files on the server and so on. Any software company or individual programmer is able to create FTP server or client software because the protocol is an open standard. Virtually every computer platform supports the FTP protocol. This allows any computer connected to a TCP/IP based network to manipulate files on another computer on that network regardless of which operating systems are involved (if the computers permit FTP access).
Now, wasn’t my version much simpler and easy to understand? By the way, if you get stuck, try the help menu on your computer.

Just Rolled Out Multi Interest Blogging Portal--The Bloogle

NEWS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFor Further information:
Contact: Sue Voyles (734) 667-2005
-or- Nipa Shah (248) 470-6299


New Blogging and Information Portal Appeals to Many Interests
Thebloogle.com launched

November 8, 2007 – News, views, how-to’s and more . . . that’s what you’ll find at thebloogle.com, a new blogging and information portal.

While there are thousands of blogs on the Internet, entrepreneur Nipa Shah believes the new venture will fill a definite need.

“Blogs that are focused on a particular topic or expertise are quite common. But there are fewer sites where you can find topics of all interests and even fewer that are user-friendly, informational and interesting,” said Nipa Shah, president of the online marketing and web site development company Jenesys Group, LLC in Novi, Mich. “This portal will be different. Our goal is to provide a blogging experience that will attract and engage readers and writers alike.”

The 14 categories on thebloogle.com range from Books, Films & More, where readers may find book or film reviews, to Dollars & Sense, where authors share financial know-how. Other categories include: Getting Down to Business, Health & Wellness, Kindergarten to College, On the Town, Hobbies & How To, Globally Speaking, Family & Friends, A Higher Power, Sports & Fitness, By Air Land & Sea, Pets and The Tech Place.

Shah, an Internet marketing expert who loves reading, writing and sharing knowledge, added that she is providing a medium for writers and subject matter experts to share their expertise with a global audience. She has teamed up with writer and editor Sue Voyles, president of Logos Communications, Inc. in Canton, Mich., who shares her enthusiasm for sharing information.

“We are confident that readers will find a blog that intrigues, informs or inspires them,” said Voyles.
Shah added: “I have a vision to create several portals to meet various needs of online users. It has always been my goal to facilitate knowledge sharing and thebloogle.com was a natural project to help me meet that goal.”

Writers and other subject matter experts are invited to contribute articles to thebloogle.com. Simply visit www.thebloogle.com to learn more.


About Jenesys Group, LLCJenesys Group, LLC (www.jenesysgroup.com) is a full-service online marketing and web site design, development, and maintenance company delivering web solutions to companies across the globe. The company’s clients include lawyers, marketing companies, other web site development companies, radio show hosts, hardware and software retailers, and many other companies in diverse market segments.

About Logos Communications, Inc. Logos Communications, Inc. (www.logos-communications.com) is a full-service public relations and marketing firm serving a wide range of small to medium-sized businesses. It provides ongoing counsel to the 20,000 member Michigan Business and Professional Association and is Best Practices Certified™ through the Management Impact Institute

Technocrats Teach Technology Tools/ Pennsylvania Business Technology Conference

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Shop and Social Network Too at Circuit City

Hey for all of you Techno Geeks out there, please don’t call me a geek! I don’t even know how to defrag my computer, I have to call someone. Perhaps we should do a show on that!

Finally, you can find out from like-minded individuals about techno products. Circuit City Stores, Inc. has rolled out for the holidays an on-line social networking commentary site that lets you find out what others are saying about the product or service you want to buy.

Great idea for Circuit City, it’s like an instant focus group. They can find out about customer wants and find out about commonly asked questions with support and engage their customers with special promotions. Circuit City may just be a tech marketing genius.

“CityCenter brings social networking, online conversations, and multichannel transaction capabilities together to enable true social shopping,” said Dave Panos, CEO of Pluck Corp. “It’s the future of online commerce, and Circuit City is bringing it to customers just in time for the holidays.”
For additional information on this fun, enlightening shopping experience:
http://www.circuitcity.com/citycenter.
Read Entire article at: http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/circuit/pluck/prweb571004.htm

About Circuit City Stores, Inc.
Circuit City Stores, Inc. (NYSE:CC) is a leading specialty retailer of consumer electronics and related services. The domestic segment operates through 667 Superstores and 13 other locations in 158 U.S. markets. The international segment operates through approximately 800 retail stores and dealer outlets in Canada. Circuit City also operates Web sites at http://www.circuitcity.com, http://www.thesource.ca and http://www.firedog.com.
About Pluck Corporation
Pluck Corporation social media solutions empower leading media companies, brand marketers and retailers to integrate open content, community and social networking into their web properties driving audience traffic and revenue. Clients include CBC, Circuit City, Cox, FOX News, Gannett, Scotts, and The Washington Post. Awards include a Red Herring 100 and AlwaysOn Media 100. The privately held company is based in Austin, Texas with funding from Austin Ventures, Mayfield Fund and Reuters. More information on Pluck offerings can be found at www.pluck.com.
Pluck, BlogBurst and SiteLife are trademarks of Pluck Corp. All other company and product names mentioned are used only for identification and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Techno Granny-Episode November 12, 07--Audacity--Bold Enough for You?

This morning my guest was to be Ben Wilson, international Teen Talk Caster and Teen Toonist but he seemed to have some technical difficulties both with the audio bridge and the chat. Ben is an international Teen Talk Caster and Teen Toonist from Sydney Australia and among his many other shows has an affilliated show to Techno Granny, "Techno Teen". His next show is on Tuesday, November 20 at 6:30 AM, EST and I will be his guest so tune in.

So because of technical difficutlties, Techno Granny used her Techno Notes on Audacity straight from the Audacity tutorial at:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html

You can listen to this mornings "Techno Granny" show archived at:
http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/tc/30986

You can listen to Ben Wilson's "Techno Teen" at:
http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/tc/59995

Techno Granny is also becoming quite international and Rand Dulo of the show "Ageless" chimed in about the use of Audacity to edit digital recordings. Rand Dulo runs his show from Paris, France. You can listen to Rand's show, "Agelesss" at: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/tc/16282


Here are the notes from today's show. If you are a Talk Caster or Pod Caster, hope they will inspire you to learn to use Audacity. By the end of the month I hope to be able to tell you that I have done more with it than converted a recording form my digital player into an MP3 and uploaded it to Talk Shoe.

• 
  I. Basics
  Digital Audio
  Rules of Audacity
  Setup, Audio Import and Playback
  Recording with Audacity this used to be a one-column table-->
  II. Editing for Beginners
  Introduction to Editing...
  Cut, Copy & Paste
  Silence, Duplicate and Split
  Splitting and Submixes
  III. Common Editing Tasks
  Quickies
  Editing Vocal Tracks
  Cutting up long Tracks this used to be a one-column table-->
  IV. Effects for Beginners
  A virtual room with Reverbs
  V. Selecting and Aligning
  Selecting
  VI.
  
  A virtual room with Reverbs
  
  Audacity ...
  a free cross platform audio editor.
  For new users to Audacity, see the Tutorial in five parts for some basics on digital audio, setting up Audacity, selecting, aligning, and recording.
  Audacity is currently in version 1.2.3. This is a stable release of Audacity; it has been tested and works well for most people. However, it comes with no guarantee, and we depend on your feedback in order to continue to improve on it. Please check our website for the latest version. Audacity is a collaborative project, so there are lots of opportunities for you to get involved if you're interested!
  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
  
  
  Audacity is a program that manipulates digital audio waveforms. In addition to recording sounds directly from within the program, it imports many sound file formats, including WAV, AIFF, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis. PCM formats of 8,16,24 and 32-bits can be imported and exported.
  
  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/intro.html
  
  What can't Audacity do?
• 
  Although Audacity is a very powerful audio editor that works with an unlimited number tracks of virtually unlimited size, it cannot do everything. It cannot :
• 
  Audacity cannot record more than two channels at once on many systems. Some support for multitrack recording is included in version 1.2.3, but it does not support very many systems yet.
• 
  Audacity opens MIDI files, but it is not a MIDI editor, and its MIDI features are extremely limited.
• 
  How does it work - a quick intro for experienced users
• 
  Audacity works with tracks, that contain one audio file. This file is editable and all actions are undoable. Undo's are instantaneous.'
• 
  Almost anything is undoable, including importing and deleting tracks!
• 
  There are no inserts, auxes or buses yet.
• 
  All versions can use LADSPA plugins, and the Windows and Mac versions can use VST plugins using the VST Enabler (a separate download).
• 
  There is volume automation via the envelope tool.
• 
  Editing functions include Cut, Copy, Paste,Duplicate(to new track at same timecode), Split(to new track at same timecode), and Silence.
• 
  A grid can be activated for each track, and snapping can be switched on as well.
  
  
  What makes Audacity unique?
• 
  Audacity is free and the source code is available under the GNU General Public License.
• 
  Audacity is cross-platform - it runs on Windows (98 through XP), Mac OS X, and many Unix platforms, including Linux. Previous versions worked with Mac OS 9.
• 
  No limits on the number of tracks or the length of any track, except the size of your hard disk.
• 
  Import almost anything: WAV, AIFF, Next/AU, IRCAM, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis files are supported natively, but Audacity will also open just about any uncompressed sound file and automatically deduce the format (using the Import Raw Data... feature).
• 
  Audacity not only includes many high-quality effects built-in, but also lets you use LADSPA and VST plug-in effects. There are dozens of free, shareware, and commercial plug-ins online that do everything from Reverb to Noise Reduction.
• 
  Audacity supports plug-ins written in the Nyquist programming language, a high-level language designed specifically for working with audio.
• 
  Audacity acts like a non-destructive editor, providing multiple levels of undo, but it also writes changes made to the audio to disk, eliminating the need for complicated real-time processing.
• 
  Label tracks allow you to annotate waveforms (for example, transcribing speech) and later export the waveforms to a text file.
• 
  Powerful spectral features allow you to view waveforms as spectrograms or plot the power spectrum of any region of audio, and even export this data to a spreadsheet.
  Pitch-changing and tempo-changing effects
  
  Remember you can get all this information and MUCH MORE at:
• http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html
• THIS IS JUST TO HOPEFULLY GET YOU STARTED!
  
  

Techno Granny Borrowed Famous Chef Recipe for Thanksgiving

Okay we are back to grandmothers, even Techno Granny cook, and she does, and also passes on her favorite recipes. Okay, haven't tried this one yet but I have eaten the pumpkin soup and know someone who makes the boreks every Thanksgiving although she doesn't call them that. So this is on the menu as an appetizer for Thanksgiving dinner. I have been the designated turkey cooker ever since my mother's demise because I made the mistake of cooking a "fresh" unfrozen turkey. So this year along with the turkey I am bringing:

Roasted pumpkin soup with apple and smoked bacon boreks (savory pastries), a recipe recently published in Reuter's. Chatting with chef Lynn CrawfordCanadian chef Lynn Crawford is the only female executive chef at Four Seasons worldwide, and was the first female contestant from Canada on the program "Iron Chef America."

By the way, these articles come to me by e-mail once or twice a week in an e-mail entitled NAWBO Smart Brief which I use as my personal "reader service."

If it is good enough for a female Iron Chef and Four Seasons clientele, I figured the La Monica clan would like it also.


Roasted pumpkin soup with apple and smoked bacon boreks (savory pastries)
Roasted pumpkin soup -- Serves 4
4 cups roasted pumpkin
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons butter
1 onion, diced
6 garlic cloves, chopped
1 tablespoon cumin, toasted
1 tablespoon mustard seeds, toasted
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
4 cups vegetable stock
1/4 cup honey
1/2 cup yogurt
2 tablespoons dill, chopped
salt and pepper to taste
In a large pot over medium heat add the olive oil, butter and onions. Saute for 3-4 minutes. Add the spices and garlic and continue to cook for an additional 2 minutes. Add the pumpkin and stock and bring to a boil. Simmer the soup for 30 minutes then blend well. Stir in the honey and season. In a small bowl combine the yogurt with the chopped dill and season. Pour soup into a bowl and top with yogurt.
Apple and smoked bacon boreks
1/2 pound bacon, diced into 1/4 inch pieces
2 cups apples, peeled and diced into 1/2 inch cubes
1/2 cup leeks, finely diced
2 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons parsley, chopped
1/2 pound phyllo dough
1/4 pound butter, melted
salt and pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 375. In a saute pan over medium high heat, add the bacon and cook until golden brown and crisp. Drain off excess fat. Add the leeks and cook until soft. Add the apples, honey and parsley and cook for 2 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Remove mixture from heat to cool. Unfold the phyllo and place one sheet on the counter. Brush lightly with the melted butter. Top with another sheet of phyllo and brush with melted butter. Repeat until there is 4 layers of dough. Cut the dough into 2 inch strips. Place one teaspoon of apple filling onto the bottom of each strip of dough. Fold into triangle shapes ensuring that all of the filling stays inside of the folds. Continue to make boreks until all the mixture has been used. Place the boreks on a baking sheet and bake until golden brown, about 5 minutes.

I will let you know post Thanksgiving how everyone liked the pumpkin soup and savory pastry. Sounds yummy, doesn't it?

For Small Business Owners with Way too Much on Their Computers

SmartBiz Blog
Windows Home Server A Slam Dunk For Small Biz Too
ARTICLE TOOLS

By Rich Karpinski
The first Microsoft Windows Home Server-based system began shipping this week from Hewlett-Packard and despite the "home" in its name this nifty bit of hardware is a perfect fit for small business storage needs.

HP MediaSmart Home Server If you haven't heard about Microsoft's storage play, here's the deal: aiming to cash in on home user's with multiple PCs and large storage requirements, Microsoft and hardware partners are delivering what amounts to the first mainstream storage area network product. The very first WHS-based system, from HP, went on pre-order on Amazon just this week. For $569 you get 500 GB of expandable storage plus a slew of software tools for managing backup, authorized access and more. You also get some very slick hardware capabilities including the ability to "hot swap" disks without turning off the machine. IT is used to having networked storage. Most home and small office users are not. Other vendors including Iomega and LaCie plan to launch Windows Home Server hardware soon. The server is getting almost universally-positive reviews, not usually the case with first-generation Microsoft products. Want to learn more? Here's a great review today from Gizmodo.

Techno Granny to Other Women on Female Heart Attacks

This is an e-mail sent to me by my uncle and me to you. Thought it was something good that Techno Granny to send out to her female and male listeners to pass on to their female friends and relatives.

Heart Attack Men AND Women!!

Sun 11/04/07 10:42 PM
Pass This On After Reading It So Your Friends don't Pass On!
FEMALE HEART ATTACKS
I was aware that female heart attacks are different, but this is the best description I've ever read. Women and heart attacks (Myocardial infarction) Did you know that women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms that men have when experiencing heart attack...you know, the sudden stabbing pain in the chest, the cold sweat, grabbing the chest & dropping to the floor that we see in the movies.


Here is the story of one woman's experience with a heart attack. "I had a completely unexpected heart attack at about 10:30 PM with NO prior exertion, NO prior emotional trauma that one would suspect might've brought it on. I was sitting all snugly & warm on a cold evening, with my purring cat in my lap, reading an interesting story my friend had sent me, and actually thinking,"A-A-h, this is the life, all cozy and warm in my soft, cushy Lazy Boy with my feet propped up." A moment later, I felt that awful sensation of indigestion, when you've been in a hurry and grabbed a bite of sandwich and washed it down with a dash of water, and that hurried bite seems to feel like you've swallowed a golf ball going down the esophagus in slow motion and it is most uncomfortable. You realize you shouldn't have gulped it down so fast and needed to chew it more thoroughly and this time drink a glass of water to hasten its progress down to the stomach. This was my initial sensation---the only trouble was that I hadn't taken a bite of anything since about 5:00 p.m.


"After that had seemed to subside, the next sensation was like little squeezing motions that seemed to be racing up my SPINE (hind-sight, it was probably my aorta spasming), gaining speed as they continued racing up and under my sternum (breast bone, where one presses rhythmically when administering CPR). This fascinating process continued on into my throat and branched out into both jaws. "AHA!! NOW I stopped puzzling about what was happening--we all have read and/or heard about pain in the jaws being one of the signals of an MI happening, haven't we?


I said aloud to myself and the cat, "Dear God, I think I'm having a heart attack !" I lowered the foot rest, dumping the cat from my lap, started to take a step and fell on the floor instead. I thought to myself "If this is a heart attack, I shouldn't be walking into the next room where the phone is or anywhere else.......but, on the other hand, if I don't, nobody will know that I need help, and if I wait any longer I may not be able to get up in moment." "I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, walked slowly into the next room and dialed the Paramedics... I told her I thought I was having a heart attack due to the pressure building under the sternum and radiating into my jaws. I didn't feel hysterical or afraid, just stating the facts..


She said she was sending the Paramedics over immediately, asked if the front door was near to me, and if so, to unbolt the door and then lie down on the floor where they could see me when they came in. "I then laid down on the floor as instructed and lost consciousness, as I don't remember the medics coming in, their examination, lifting me onto a gurney or getting me into their ambulance, or hearing the call they made to St. Jude ER on the way, but I did briefly awaken when we arrived and saw that the Cardiologist was already there in his surgical blues and cap, helping the medics pull my stretcher out of the ambulance.. He was bending over me asking questions (probably something like "Have you taken any medications?") but I couldn't make my mind interpret what he was saying, or form an answer, and nodded off again, not waking up until the Cardiologist and partner had already threaded the teeny angiogram balloon up my femoral artery into the aorta and into my heart where they installed 2 side by side stents to hold open my right coronary artery.


"I know it sounds like all my thinking and actions at home must have taken at least 20-30 minutes before calling the Paramedics, but actually it took perhaps 4-5 minutes before the call, and both the fire station and St. Jude are only minutes away from my home, and my Cardiologist was already to go to the OR in his scrubs and get going on restarting my heart (which had stopped somewhere between my arrival and the procedure) and installing the stents.


"Why have I written all of this to you with so much detail? Because I want all of you who are so important in my life to know what I learned first hand." 1. Be aware that something very different is happening in your body not the usual men's symptoms but inexplicable things happening (until my sternum and jaws got into the act). It is said that many more women than men die of their first (and last) MI because they didn't know they were having one and commonly mistake it as indigestion, take some Maalox or other anti-heartburn preparation and go to bed, hoping they'll feel better in the morning when they wake up...which doesn't happen. My female friends, your symptoms might not be exactly like mine, so I advise you to call the Paramedics i f ANYTHING is unpleasantly happening that you've not felt before. It is better to have a "false alarm" visitation than to risk your life guessing what it might be!


2. Note that I said "Call the Paramedics". Ladies, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! Do NOT try to drive yourself to the ER--you're a hazard to others on the road and so is your panicked husband who will be speeding and looking anxiously at what's happening with you instead of the road. Do NOT call your doctor--he doesn't know where you live and if it's at night you won't reach him anyway, and if it's daytime, his assistants (or answering service) will tell you to call the Paramedics. He doesn't carry the equipment in his car that you need to be saved! The Paramedics do, principally OXYGEN that you need ASAP. Your Dr. will be notified later


3. Don't assume it couldn't be a heart attack because you have a normal cholesterol count. Research has discovered that a cholesterol elevated reading is rarely the cause of an MI (unless it's unbelievably high and/or accompanied by high blood pressure.) MIs are usually caused by long-term stress and inflammation in the body, which dumps all sorts of deadly hormones into your system to sludge things up in there. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive. A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life.

**Please be a true friend and send this article to all your friends (male & female) you care about!

Disclaimer:
This was written anonymously and has been ciruclating for some time. I have included it in my blog so that you will investigate the signs of a female heart attack which in acutality are quite different than those of men. Please do not take this as medical advice and please confirm this information with a competent medical authority.

BlackBerry--No Thanks, I'm Fasting!

What We Learned Today About Blackberry Technology
BlackBerry?—No Thanks, I’m Fasting
Episode 26
Guest
Raul Evangelista
DMR Medical Supplier
Allegheny Group
208 Woodland Rd
Pittsburgh, PA 15238
800-875-6125
A Veteran Owned and Veteran Staffed Business

According to Geek.com which some of my young friends may want to access, BlackBerry Technology has been licensed out to Microsoft since 2003, that means that you can have a BlackBerry brand phone and hand held device or you can have a device that uses BlackBerry Technology. Research in Motion, RIM is the orginal maker of the BlackBerry e-mail device which is now capable of being used as a cell phone and has als been incorporated into SmartPhone platforms, and has been used by Symbian OS phones. Many cell phone brands now have BlackBerry Capabiliites.
Pocket PC and SmartPhone users have access to BlackBerry e-mail technology.
Raul Evangelista uses the 7150 C by Verizon and finds it a great way to keep connectivity and as a time saving device for his small company with a staff of four but a sales staff of 60. Raul has an aversion to the multiple stroke key pad which does not use Qwerty keyboard, so he uses PIM, Project Infromation Management, with his Outlook to put info into his BlackBerry Device. He simply uses a USB cable at night to Sync his phone with his outlook.

Raul finds the device not only time-saving but also creates added efficiency and speeds up communication among his associates.

He was very upfront that ther are other BlackBerry Devices which have Qwerty keyboards and larger keyboards.

Looks to me now like we may need to do a show on PIM, Outlook and Outlook Express, can’t wait—learned a lot today. I just may go out and buy a BlackBerry even though I am on a diet.

Listen to the show at:
http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/tc/30986


Related Links:
http://www.geek.com/
http://www.dmrincpgh.com/
http://www.alleghenygroup.com/

How Techno Granny Finds Guests?

A listener and fellow pod caster asked me recently about how I find people to interview. Well, you know how someone asks you for directions to a familiar place and you know how to turn left and right instinctively, but when you are giving directions sometimes you can’t remember the name of the street but you can remember a landmark? Okay, guys, maybe it‘s a girl thing.

Well, I really had to sit back and think about how I found all of these people to interview. On the Techno Granny Show alone, I have had 24 shows so far at 7 AM and had 22 guests. Occupational hazard of being on at 7 AM, two interviewees slept in. I have done 13 thirty minute episodes on Professionals with Impact, http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/tc/33431 so that’s another 35 and my Positively Pittsburgh Live Talk cast http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/tc/18520 is roundtable style with no less than two guests on each show and sometimes as many as five for a total of 80 guests in 33 interviews. 115 guests since March 19, 2007; 115 guests in 7 months, that is pretty phenomenal and I did not realize it until my fellow pod caster questioned me.

I must tell you that the guest format came about quite by accident, no success secret here. Like so many people when I first got on to Talk Shoe, I thought I was going to make thousands of dollars even though I recognized pod casting as more of a marketing tool and it was free and if I made postage for the month, I would have been happy. Early on, hosts were told that live callers and listeners made you more money. Well, since I did not have a track record, I decided to bring my own attendees by inviting guests on the show so that way I would never be alone on the line. Also it’s a lot easier to ask people what they think than always spout off what you think as a show host.

So I began with the premise that if I wanted to educate listeners and convince them to use technology, the language had to be simple. So most of the time, the guest is not an expert in the industry so much as an individual business owner or professional who uses the technology. It’s easy to get guests in that way, because they get a chance to promote their business by being on the show and it serves the purpose of giving listeners practical examples of how to use the technology. Occasionally I do have a guest who has developed a particular product or who is an expert as in the case of Jo Ann Forrester of SI Business Associates who is one of the developers of Price It Perfect Cost Control Program or Joe Reinhardt of Config.com who owns a Search Engine Optimization Company.

An example of how I find guests is these two individuals. Jo Ann Forrester is a marketing client of mine and Joe Reinhardt I met through ITEX, the International Trade Exchange of which we are both members. That’s a national barter group. You can actually listen to an independent Talk Cast that I have done on the International Trade Exchange to find additional information.

For Positively Pittsburgh Live, I initially tapped into my National Association of Women Business Owners associates and also found guests through the Pittsburgh Women’ s Networking Group which is a constantly growing on line networking group. Also as the word gets around I constantly receive referrals from other people. I have also become recognized in the Pittsburgh area as a media source so I do receive press releases.

In addition, I network, I find out what people do and just by meeting people I get ideas for additional shows. If I meet an interesting person that is doing something positive in Pittsburgh, I find like-minded individuals that have synergy to the topic and build a show around them.

I guess you might say that I find my guests while I am out living my life; I have never found anyone yet while I was sitting in my living room.