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How Twitter Can Help you to Find People in Your Local Community

For people new to Twitter who wants to see who is twittering around your own locality there is a tool that combines the googlemap application and twitter users - called Googlemap Twitter Mashup. All you do is put in your zip or postcode and it will show you "tweets" from people who live near you.
May be useful in finding contacts around where you live - interestingly there was no one who lived near me!

Show #048 - Podcasting Tips for a Community Manager

This week's free Podcast Sisters audio show is now available (remember subscribe free of charge and new shows will come automatically to your computer, just follow the instructions at the end of the post to download or subscribe via iTunes)

This show covers a listener's question about how to start podcasting in a local community. We talk about what basic equipment we suggest for podcasting and ideas of how to put the podcast together. Here are the links to the show

Plantronic DSP 500

Logitech Foldable Headphones

Microtrack audio recorder

Audacity - podcasting editing program

Skype - Phone calls via the web

Skylook - to record telephone calls on Skype

Pamela - to record telephone calls on Skype

Penny Haynes

Wetpaint - for wiki's

To listen to all the previous shows, here is the bank of The Podcast Sister podcasts

Join us over at the Podcast Sisters Facebook group to discuss this week's show and also do give us feedback and share ideas for future shows that will deliver value to YOU. You can also send us an email to podcast.sisters@googlemail.com.

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Show #047 - What is a Digital Native

This week's free Podcast Sisters audio show is now available (remember subscribe free of charge and new shows will come automatically to your computer, just follow the instructions at the end of the post to download or subscribe via iTunes)

This show is a little different as it is an interview that Heather and Anna recorded whilst in New York. We talk to Paull Young, one of the "young" stars of the social media world. We talk about

What is a digital native?

How are people are using the internet

What is twitter? And when would you use Twitter and when do you blog?

How you build relationships on line?

How Paull sees the future of social media

If you want to check out Paull's mum' blog then check out Serendipity! 

To listen to all the previous shows, here is the bank of The Podcast Sister podcasts

Join us over at the Podcast Sisters Facebook group to discuss this week's show and also do give us feedback and share ideas for future shows that will deliver value to YOU. You can also send us an email to podcast.sisters@googlemail.com.

REMEMBER SUBSCRIPTION TO THE PODCAST SISTERS IS FREE! 

1) To listen now on line without any downloads then click here and press the play button

2) Or to subscribe in iTunes      

3) Or if you use a different podcatcher then here are the feed details -

http://www.podcastfm.co.uk/podcast.rss?id=245

3Dcamp Non-Conference: 24 May 2008, Limerick, Ireland

If you are in Ireland and interested in the opportunities that 3D technologies present, then you won't want to miss the firthcoming FREE non-conference 3Dcamp, taking place on the 24 May 2008 in Limerick.

3Dcamp is a themed non-conference which will focus on virtual worlds (Second Life, the Metaverse), mirror worlds (Google Earth and Virtual Earth), mapping mashups, GPS, Location based Services (LBSs), haptics (eg. Wiimote hacks), 3D modelling (Blender, Sketchup) and all things 3D.

Register to attend 3Dcamp here - and do let me know if you are planning to attend as I hope to get there too.

Free Teleseminar 12 May 2008: Social Media For Solopreneurs

I'm afraid it's been a bit quiet over here on The Podcast Sisters recently as Anna and Heather have been travelling and then Anna has been ill.

If you are missing our voices and views about social media, then you might want to hop on my call this week for Biz Growth Live, where I am in conversation with Peggy Murrah and Chris Muccio about social media for solopreneurs and how it can help you attract more clients.

You can find out more about the call which is a FREE teleseminar masterclass taking place at 1pm ET/6pm Ireland and the UK on Monday 12 May 2008 here.

If you already receive my newsletter you will have the details of the call in number so you don't need to register again.

Hope to hear you on the call soon.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Webshare

When you are writing a blog post or an article for your website, if you are looking for a definition of a word, then it's likely that you will hyperlink to Wikipedia.

Well another source that is now available to you is Encyclopaedia Britannica where if you are a blogger or webpublisher, you can apply for an account to cite Britannica in your articles. This means that you can bring your website visitors and blog article readers access to the robust definitions on Britannica and they do not need to have an account to access the site which costs US$70 per annum - they have access to the definiton you link to.

And our friends over at the For Immediate Release podcast, Shel and Neville have been working with Britannica to support them in this strategy - thanks Shel and Neville for encouraging Britannica to make the resouce freely available to web publishers and bloggers.

So why not apply for your account for Britannica Webshare today?

Oh I almost forgot - you can also follow Britannica on Twitter and receive a daily Tweet about an article on Britannica too.