Tag: Jim Collison

Ask the Podcast Coach for December 13, 2014

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This week on Ask the Podcast Coach, we take a call from Fred who asks about Audio, Video and Streamcasting. I bring up a new tool that I am testing out from http://zoom.us.  John Wilkerson calls in to ask if there is any way to get out dated podcasts removed from the iTunes podcast directory.  We had a long discussion on the Chrome browser and its desire to use a lot of memory on your PC.  We finish the show with a long discussion around Lavalier Mics and are joined by Daniel J Lewis.  You can find this podcast at

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Microsoft Surface MVP Dr. Brian Friedlander talks Assistive Technology – HGG196

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Brian Friedlander from https://twitter.com/assistivetek joins Jim (https://twitter.com/jcollison) for show #196 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network, part of http://thegeeksnetwork.com/ community. Brian is a Microsoft Surface MVP http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/mvp/Brian-5000720 Dr. Friedlander is a school psychologist with expertise in the area of assistive technology. Dr. Friedlander has a passion for using all… Click for more / Podcast Player>

College Tech and the Gadgets it Takes to Make it Thru the School Year – HGG195

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Christian Johnson (https://twitter.com/TheWizBM) and Ashton Webster join Jim (https://twitter.com/jcollison) for show #195 of Home Gadget Geeks brought to you by the Average Guy Network, part of http://thegeeksnetwork.com/ community.  We spend some time catch up with Christian and Ashton and discuss what is going on over at Cyber Frontier and https://cyberfrontierlabs.com/.  We also ask how are… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Could You Really Replace CrashPlan with OneDrive? Home Server Show 274

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It took two takes, be we did get Home Server Show 274 published this week.  Dave even included some post show coverage as well.   Lots of chat around my new build.  Some talk about the Microsoft Band.  Some chat about cloud storage providers.  All the show notes are over at the post! Find the audio… Click for more / Podcast Player>

Ask the Podcast Coach for December 6, 2014

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This week on Ask the Podcast Coach, we start with Dave talking about a new mixer that he had just purchased.  he bought the Behringer X1832USB and it worked great for the podcast.  In major breaking news, we started testing the Beta of Blog Talk Radio for the call in part of the show.  Tim asked us about Hipcast and we talked about video podcasting.  We asked the question, “Should you do time released podcasts?”  We ended up the show with a discussion around how much you should charge for the consulting you do for your podcast. You can find

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Part 2: Exploring Big Data Through the Twitterverse – CF014

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This week Ashton and Christian continue their exploration of Big Data through tweets around the world using Twitter's Streaming API. In particular, Christian walks through improvements to his starter kit, showing how to manipulate and filter tweets, as well as do the classic Word Count example using tweets and hashtags. Ashton walks us through how… Click for more / Podcast Player>