I have added some of the shows you however they link directly back to ITConversations (also called Gigavox).
As always please let me know about your impressions of the interviews and what you learn. Tell me what you want next. Feedback is always welcome. tom (dot) parish @ gmail.com Tom
Dr. Elliot McGucken - Artistic Entrepreneurship & Technology 101
"Sometimes
you've got to think like a surfer--lie low, go with the flow, and ride
the wave. And sometimes you've got to be the cowboy--ride into town,
call the bluff, and face the music in the showdown." Dr. Elliot
McGucken explains how artists can find financial success by seeing
their quest as a classic Hero's Journey (ala Joseph Campbell). By
keeping the hero's goal of staying true to his art and passionately
following the journey, the artist can turn his creative wealth into
financial wealth.
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Esther Dyson - Space Travel and Social Media
Esther Dyson is best known for her work with
technology, but many people may not be aware of the breadth of her
other interests. This interview delves into some of Ms. Dyson's many
pursuits, such as her Flight School workshops and her recent blogging
contributions. Her interest in "air and space" activity is underscored
by her advocacy social media's use as a tool that will enhance user
experiences and ultimately create a new market.
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Steve Marx - B2B Interactive Selling Strategies
In this interview Steve Marx, CEO of the Center for
Sales Strategy and author of the book "Close Like the Pros," introduces
a whole new way of thinking about closing B2B sales, turning the
old-school "hand-off selling" concept on its ear. In Marx's interactive
selling approach the sale is a process rather than an event. He
explains why interactive strategies take advantage of the current
choice-filled B2B landscape, enabling more efficient, productive, and
successful sales.
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Deb Radcliff - Feeding the Game
Virtual
booty has become more important to some online game players than
feeding their real bodies in the physical world. Deb Radcliff, veteran
online security writer and Vice President of Publishing for The
Security Consortium discusses what is happening now that criminals have
started to take advantage. In addition to discussing how the ability to
monetize booty began, she identifies who the criminals are and what
methods they are using to accomplish their acts.
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Elizabeth Ferranini - Get your customers to do your marketing
Who
can better influence your markets and show your product's real value
than an articulate satisfied customer? Elizabeth Ferranini, veteran PR
consultant, brings a wealth of experience to this conversation about
using both old and new media to enable your customers to do
high-quality marketing for your company. She explains how to interview
CEOs and CIOs, what marketing skills and investments start-up companies
need, how to craft a case study that can jump-start your business, and
how companies can effectively communicate with their custo
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Must vote by September 17th 2007.
Do it now ...! I'm very excited about the opportunity to pull a panel together at SXSW but I need your vote to make certain it's accepted.
Description:
Why are CMO's afraid of social media and social networking? How can
they leverage social media for marketing success? This panel will be a
combination of forward vision and practical advice from vendors and
enterprises that are successfully leveraging social media today for
business results.
Thank you Tom Parish Founder Tom Parish Inc Social Media Board Room Consultancy Austin TX
You'll need to go to www.ITConversations.com. Look on the left column of their site for the link to Talking Portraits. All new shows will be there. I have a new interview that you'll want to catch. It's a kind of case study with Lulu.com about their use of social media-based marketing strategies to grow their business. You'll want to catch this one.
I am very grateful for the opportunity to have my show hosted to such a wide audience. It's a pleasure to be part of a larger community.
Remember to expect the unexpected with regards to interviews, so stay tuned.
There is a new RSS feed, so please visit the ITConversations site to get your regular dose of Talking Portraits shows into your computer or iPod or favorte MP3 player.
As always, send me your thoughts and comments [tom.parish AT gmail.com]. I want to know how you're doing and hear any feedback you have on your mind about the shows or any ideas for future shows.
Live life fully Tom
BluestoneJones Original Electronica - Matt Jones Musician from Montana Do not attempt to adjust your mp3 player. For the next 45 minutes the control of your mp3 player is in the creative hands of Matt Jones - electronic music artist whom I've come to know over the last couple of months. Music on this Podcast is from his album Sunset Birth and from his podcasts at www.bluestonejones.org.
Hi, this is Tom Parish in the Talking Portraits studio in Austin, Texas. I'm going to spare you the long intro and just let you get into a bit of Matt's music before we roll into the interview. My idea is to have you learn about Matt the musician and get an inside look at how he creates electronic music. eknow more about him as a person and his experiences in writing music during the birth of his first child, how that impacted his career, and his life as a creative young man in Montana. So ... here we go. Put your headphones on now ...
The domain name, openmetrics.org, says what it is: An organization whose purpose is to define standards in an open manner with collective input from numerous groups, mainly podcasters and advertisers.
Here's the deal - whether you're a podcaster, podcast distributor, advertiser, audience-identity advocast, or PR firm, etc., you have an interest in finding a consistent way to create metrics for this new media, podcasting. If we can solve this problem, there will be more trust and more opportunity for advertising dollars. I'm for that.
The problem is - everyone's metrics are different and, well, it's complicated. Traditional web metrics are more about unique visitors or visits per day and, if you're lucky, some way of measuring downloads. Of course, the next problem is "What constitutes a download?" What about RSS feeds that are constantly hitting your website and skewing the numbers way up? But that's just one issue. What about metrics of the kinds of people that listen to your show? What's the reach? What countries? How long do visitors really listen?
You get the idea. Even if you're new to podcasting or if you've been around a while, it's a vexing problem. This is a large set of unresolved issues that make it difficult for podcasters to present solid, consistent numbers, and difficult for advertisers to know how to trust the numbers for shows originated by different podcasters.
This has been an issue I've wrestled with for my own shows and my clients' shows, so during a conversation with Chris MacDonald of Libysn I found out about a small group of people interested in making this problem go away. This group is growing quickly, and you can learn more about it at http://www.openmetrics.org.
What is openmetrics.org, and how can we work together to solve these problems? Let's speak with these guys now - Matt, Dave and Chris.
