Magnitude Media » topics on fire http://magnitudemedia.net We're Here To Help You Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:02:41 +0000 en hourly 1 Tonight's the Night to Talk About Music and Social Media http://magnitudemedia.net/2009/03/tonights-the-night-to-talk-about-music-and-social-media/ http://magnitudemedia.net/2009/03/tonights-the-night-to-talk-about-music-and-social-media/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:02:47 +0000 Leslie http://uptownuncorked.com/2009/03/29/tonights-the-night-to-talk-about-music-and-social-media/ Update: The podcast was a blast. Thanks to Joe, Flint, Carla and Matthew for participating and sharing your knowledge of music from all levels and a variety of aspects of the industry. Panelists, please feel free to grab the embed for your blog or profile – just link back here:

Original post: Topics on Fire is on its 14th episode. I’m so happy at the support it receives from people, and pleased when I hear that you all learned something from an episode, or just plain had fun. So far the two most popular episodes have been Part Two of the Gender Gap and Social Media/Technology and the New Year, New You episode.

Tonight we talk about one of my favorite topics, music and social media. I am honored to have long time friend and musician Flint Mavis as one of our panelists. He has one foot in each side of the equation as a MySpace account executive and session guitarist in Los Angeles. He has been heard wailing his axe in several bands over the years. Also joining us is new friend Joe Marrapodi from Get Rare. You all may know Joe best as friend and manager to Pete Yorn, but through Get Rare I had the pleasure to get to know Joe recently before the WERS 60th Anniversary show in Boston. Carla Lynne Hall will also be on our panel. She is a musician and music blogger (Her blog is Rock Star Life Lessons) and someone I connect with frequently on Twitter. A champion of indie music, she has loads of great advice for musicians looking to make their way online. Piano rocker Matthew Ebel will be on as well. He is known for using social media and the internet to book gigs and sell his music direct to his fans. The other panelists will be announced closer to the start time.

I hope to see you all there! It’s on TalkShoe at 10PM Eastern Time tonight, 3/29.

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Panelists include Emilio Saez Van Eerd of La Casa De Las Vides winery in spain (hence the one-time time change interfering with your football watching – trust me, it is so worth it!), Dale Cruse of Drinks Are on Me wine blog, Craig Drollett of Bin Ends Wine sales and tasting and Michael Cochran of Cult Vines boutique direct to consumer winery. I’m excited to talk wine with all of you, so put those football games on DVR or TiVo and spend an hour with us, won’t you?

UPDATE: Here is the embedded audio from the podcast. I’ll have the links from the chat room up as well shortly, so check back!


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Links from this episode:

David Tames Mac Coolant Leak Video
CNN iReport Top Three Hurricane Kyle Reports via Steve Garfield
Learn Videoblogging via Steve Garfield.  Warning: Video plays when page loads.
David Tames Book Recommendation (buy it used): Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro (2nd Edition)
by Michael Wohl
‘Teenage Tourettes Camp 10‘ had a happy ending. Great doccumentary via Steve Garfield
The Carol and Steve Show: Episode 29 – The Porch, Part 1
Spices of Life via Steve Garfield
John Herman likes Mogulus
Steve Garfield and David Tames recommend tools Qik, Vimeo, BlipTV, TubeMogul
David Tames Practical Sound Recording and Editing Techniques For Better Video
John Herman’s strange new show, OddNogginLand
Steve Garfield invites all to Boston Media Makers
Tim Street’s thoughts on monetizing video at his blog
David Tames blog Contact info
Good LA Times article on Tim Street
John Herman invites all to NH Media Makers
David Tames Documentary Video Bootcamp Course at MassArt
John Herman’s site
Steve Garfield’s site
M J Carrasquillo site (participant from chat room)
Leslie Poston’s sites bio, blog, work

Upcoming Episodes:

Next episodes are all a bit light in tone – hey, it’s the holidays! Let’s have a little fun with our online world.

12/14/08 10PM EST Online Shopping Tips, Tricks, and Sources with several guests, including a possible cameo from SavvyAuntie

Break for Christmas/New Year’s Eve – Happy Holidays

1/4/09 10PM EST New Year, New You – fashion and image advice for the sartorial internet and social media lover with panelists Dmitri Gunn, Jamey Sheuy, Thomas Edwards and possibly Scott Monty if he is available

1/18/09 10PM EST Marketing and Enjoying Wine Online – all of the ways to find, sell, market, and enjoy wine online with panelists Cata Vino, Emilio Seaz ven Eerd from Las Casa de las Vides, Craig Dollett from Bin Ends Wine and many more

Topics on Fire can be followed at this link to receive notices when a new episode is about to air.

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http://twitter.pbwiki.com/USGovernment

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/us/politics/16blackberry.html

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/16/obama-ditch-beloved-blackberry/#

http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/

http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/

http://magnitudemedia.net/2008/11/16/obama-and-his-blackberry-parting-isnt-a-sweet-sorrow-at-all/

http://www.opencongress.org/

http://sunlightlabs.com/

http://www.congresspedia.com

http://www.kstreetcafe.com

http://www.opencongress.org/

open-government@googlegroups.com

http://www.c-spanarchives.org/

http://debatehub.c-span.org/

http://dnc08.c-span.org/

http://rnc08.c-span.org/

http://www.you2gov.org/index.php/Take-Action.html

http://www.you2gov.org/index.php/Transition-2008.html

http://www.you2gov.org/index.php/Links

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush

http://dodlive.blogspot.com

http://www.flickr.com/commons/

http://www.SoMeElection08.ning.com

http://twitter.pbwiki.com/USGovernment

]]> http://magnitudemedia.net/2008/11/government-20-topics-on-fire-recap/feed/ 4 Social Media Jungle, Media Makers, Topics on Fire, BOSup, DubMe http://magnitudemedia.net/2008/11/social-media-jungle-media-makers-topics-on-fire-bosup-dubme/ http://magnitudemedia.net/2008/11/social-media-jungle-media-makers-topics-on-fire-bosup-dubme/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:52:56 +0000 Leslie http://uptownuncorked.com/?p=307 It’s been a monumental week here, with many presentations, events and meetings planned in the coming weeks. This is just an overview of what we’re up to and where you can find us:

November 8th: BOSup! at Jillian’s in the Fenway

Join Leslie for this massive tweetup with some of your favorite people on Twitter from Boston and beyond.

November 9th: NH Media Makers

Leslie will be hosting NH Media Makers at Crackskull’s in Newmarket, NH in John Herman’s absence. Hope to see you there for our usual invigorating, enlightening and inspirational morning geek fest.

November 12th: Social Media Breakfast 10 in Cambridge

Leslie will be attending the SMB10 before heading down to NY

November 13th: Social Media Jungle with Jeff Pulver in NY

I am honored to be leading a discussion called ROI is Not Money at Jeff Pulver’s Social Media Jungle. I can’t wait to talk with everyone about the many ways social media is making the next economic boom possible, and how to ride the wave.

November 16th: Topics on Fire, Episode 9: Government 2.0, the new President-Elect and Social Media

Call for panelists for our next Topics on Fire Episode, touching on themes of Government 2.0 and the new President-Elect.

November 19th: DubMe Launch, Washington DC

Leslie is planning to attend the DubMe Launch in Washington DC with iStrategy Labs

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Fantastic panel tonight – the episode is embedded below:

Topics on Fire, Episode 8: Race and Social Media/Technology on Sunday, November 2nd, at 11:00 PM Eastern on TalkShoe

Topics on Fire is one of the ways I’ve been tying to make social media effect real world change. Real world change is a topic near and dear to my heart these days (you can tell, I went so far as to submit a panel for SXSW on the idea). The first few episodes talked about the poverty gap and technology and ways to use social media to bridge the gap, and led to a companion piece on Technosailor, the generation gap and technology, education and technology/social media, politics and social media/technology and the gender gap and technology /social media, which led to the idea of Strong Women in Tech.

This week’s podcast will talk about Race and Social Media / Technology and will touch on a variety of things from how we are using social media (or not) to divide or unite cross-culturally, and what ways technology has changed our cultural and racial landscape.

Moderating: Leslie Poston @leslie, Uptown Uncorked, Mashable and Blorge

Panelists:

Shireen Mitchell, @digitalsista, Women Wired In

Liza Sabiter, @blogdiva, CultureKitchen

Rahsheen Porter, @rahsheen, SheenOnline and Black Web 2.0

Beth Kanter, @kanter, Social Media for Non Profits for Social Change

Possibly Erin Kotecki Vest, @queenofspain, Huffington Post and BlogHer

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The final panel for Episode 6 of Topics on Fire has been set and the topic will be Part Two of Gender Gap / Technology/New Media. Myself (Leslie Poston), Shireen Mitchell of Women Wired In, Leslie Bradshaw (recently featured on CSPAN covering the conventions), Meg Fowler of MegFowler.com (currently helping promote SM4SC.com), and Jen Nedeau will be paneling this discussion. Tonight’s podcast will be solution focused, as Part One zeroed in on defining the issues.

“Follow” the show on TalkShoe or stop back here for updates on each episode and notifications that a new episode is coming.

The first podcast on the Gender Gap and Technology was a lively one. As you all know I am always trying to push for real world solutions to the problems we talk about, and we didn’t come up with takeaways in the limited time the panel had to discuss it. Because of that, I’m scheduling a Part 2. I’m hoping that the same panel is willing to come back and take a different approach: instead of rehashing the existing and past issue of gender and technology, as valid as that is, I’d like to start Part 2 by stipulating that the problem exists and acknowledging that strong men and women have done much to pave the way for women in technology. Then I’d like to make the sole goal of Part 2 finding tangible ways to help women feel less disenfranchised in technology, to help women get access to technology for careers and educations and as many other solutions as we can think of in an hour of positive, focused, goal oriented discussion.

Future Topics on Fire Episodes include:

(as panelists confirm I will post them next to the podcast)

10/19 11PM Eastern Episode 7, Politics and Technology (Leslie Bradshaw, remaining panelists yet to be determined)

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Tonight’s podcast will be a good one! We’ll be discussing education and new media, social media and technology with Dave LaMorte, John Herman and E. Christopher Clark.

I’m hoping to cover a lot of ground in an hour, so I won’t be opening up the phone lines until the recording is over. I know I usually let listeners call in ten minutes before the end, and I will be doing that again in the next podcast (part two of the gender gap topic). Our panelists are all active educators and need their rest for Monday morning school. HOWEVER, that doesn’t mean you can’t come participate in the lively chat room. We can see it while in the call and can handle questions live on air that way.

If you want to be notified of future podcasts, sign up for a TalkShoe account and “follow” the call. I send a reminder the day of the call to those who follow it.

See you there!

NOTE: We also have a new forum to give you a place to carry the discussions from the podcasts over into the real world, submit topic ideas, talk about social media, promote events, etc. You can SIGN UP FOR THE NEW FORUM right here.

Tonight’s Call:

Next Topics on Fire continues the conversation on Gender Gap and Technology, this time focusing on solutions and not rehashing the problem:

10/5 11PM Eastern Topics on Fire: Episode 6, Gender Gap and Technology Part 2 (Panelists: Corvida, Leslie Bradshaw, Micah Baldwin, Meg Fowler, Jen Nedeau)

Future episodes and panelists include:

10/19 11PM Eastern Topics on Fire: Episode 7, Politics and Technology (Leslie Bradshaw)

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