I spent the day at the Women In Technology International (WITI) 20th Anniversary conference in Santa Clara.

One of the exhibitors was Pat Lynch, CEO and Editor in Chief of Women’s Radio, an online media and education network which carries podcasts on a wide variety of topics: business, relationships, lifestyle and politics.

Women’s Radio uses a unique podcast and video hosting service called Audio Acrobat. This allows anyone to record, publish and stream audio and video. Uses include radio shows, podcasts, multimedia email, video and more.

I took the opportunity to ask Pat about Women’s Radio and Audio Acrobat. Joining in the conversation, Wendy Wallbridge from On Your Mark Coach discusses how she uses Audio Acrobat to host her own video and podcasts.

To hear what Pat and Wendy shared with me, click on the podcast icon below.

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Back in August 2008 I wrote a long review of the Magcloud print-on-demand publishing solution from HP Labs.

Since then I’ve helped produce a number of editions of Professionally Speaking for our local National Speakers Association (NSA) chapter as well as a magazine for my wife’s College Admissions Counseling business.

I was recently invited by Dick Bruso of the Writers and Publishers Professional Expert Group (PEG) of NSA to deliver a one-hour teleseminar on Magcloud. The teleseminar was given on May 21, 2009.

The teleseminar covered three areas:

1. A background on printing on demand for magazine publishers
2. The mechanics of producing your own magazine for free
3. Some examples and my own experience of the time and effort involved.

Websites referenced in my talk

Magcloud
Professionally Speaking
Georgia Speaker
Step Into College
Two Words
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To hear the teleseminar click on the podcast icon below. Since this is a 55 minute recording you may prefer to Download and listen at your convenience.

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Dr. Ronna Phifer-Ritchie has been a coach, consultant, professor, public speaker/workshop leader, and author during the past two decades of her career.

Ronna has a formidable passion for helping individuals broaden and optimize personality style as a developmental pathway to true spiritual, relational, and professional progress.

Because Ronna is a specialist in the professional application of the Enneagram, her colleagues have nicknamed her the EnneaGal. Ronna is a certified Riso-Hudson Enneagram Institute Teacher, as well as a Faculty Trainee and Authorized Workshop Presenter for the Enneagram Institute in New York. She is an International Enneagram Association Accredited Enneagram Teacher and a member of the editorial committee for the IEA Professional Journal.

Ronna is the project manager and assistant writer for the current Riso-Hudson book project on the Enneagram of Personality and relationships, the author of the monthly e-newsletter Elements of Style: Type Talk with the EnneaGal , and has been a technical writer for other Enneagram publications.

She is a graduate of the Enneagram in Business Train-the-Trainers Program and a candidate for professional certification in the Meyers Briggs Type Inventory. She is a researcher in early Christian Studies and their connections to personality science.

Ronna has been an Enneagram Relationship Coach for four years, and served for two years as the VP of Training & Development for the Center for Relationship/Silicon Valley.

She delights in cultivating relational resilience in organizations, groups, teams, couples and families that are facing interpersonal challenge and transition. She has completed advanced studies in group dynamics and professional mediation.

Ronna is a professional member of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies and the International Enneagram Association. She is an ICF certified life coach. In her spare time, Ronna is an amateur competitive swing and hustle dancer, godmother to the very special niece, and the wife of David Ritchie, a Bay Area musician.

I caught up with Ronna at a recent Northern California National Speakers Association meeting and asked her to explain the background on the Enneagram. To hear what she told me, click on the podcast icon below.

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Pat Obuchowski is the CEO (Chief Empowerment Officer) of inVisionaria, a seven year old leadership, team and life coaching organization. She helps clients achieve their vision on both a professional and personal level by sharpening their leadership, interpersonal, coaching, presentation and organization skills. She coaches for results.

Most recently she served as an internal Lead Leadership Coach with Pacific Gas & Electric Company where she coached corporate leaders and teams to be more impactful and productive. Her special talent includes accelerating the learning and integration of organizational leaders and teams into new roles brought about by transitions, such as promotion, transfer, growth, mergers or acquisitions. She believes people are more fulfilled by mastering their strengths and managing their weaknesses.

Creative Vision Statements

She is a Certified Professional Co-active Coach through the Coaches Training Institute and completed their Co-Active Leadership and Leadership Mastery course. She is a leader for Vision Statement work
and a Bigger Game coach, workshop and certification leader.

Pat created the 2008 Vision Statement Movie for NSA Northern California.

Pro-Track Profile

What differentiates Pat from others in the coaching field is her operational experience in working at all levels and in all aspects of business. This experience provides her with a 360 degree understanding of business systems, leadership impact, and organizational politics. She helps people create plans that inspire and then coach them in the implementation of these plans.

She is a community activist who most recently served on the Executive Board of the Silicon Valley Coach Federation. She currently serves as a Global Board Member for the International Coach Federation.

I spoke with Pat about the status of her current projects and what attracted her to the NSA Northern California Pro-Track program. To hear what she told me, click on the podcast icon below.

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Michael E. Lara, MD maintains a private psychiatry and psychopharmacology practice in Belmont, California, where he specializes in the treatment of mood, anxiety, and memory disorders.

He earned his undergraduate and masterʼs degrees at Stanford University and Harvard University respectively, then his doctorate of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine. Dr. Lara completed his residency training in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University Hospital and Clinics. Dr. Lara is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Lara has been the recipient of several research awards in the areas of cross-cultural psychiatry, including the University of New Mexicoʼs Annual Award for Best Original Research in the Area of Cross-Cultural Psychiatry (2001). He has participated in several key clinical trials, as well as served as an invited presenter at numerous national and international medical conferences. He is the principal author of “Understanding the Role of Culture on Treatment Adherence” in the comprehensive textbook, Best Practices in the Behavioral Management of Chronic Disease.

Pro-Track Profile

Dr. Lara signed up for the the Northern California National Speakers Association (NSA) Pro-Track training this year.

You can reach Dr. Lara at 650-592-1229 or on his website www.mlaramd.com.

To hear what he told me about how his medical interests fit with professional speaking and his expectations about the 2009 NSA/NC Pro-Track program, click on the podcast icon below.

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At the recent San Francisco Writers Conference I attended an excellent introduction to podcasting. The class was taught by Britt Bravo.

Britt specializes in telling, and helping others to tell, stories about creating social change. She writes for two blogs, produce two podcasts, and teaches people how to blog and podcast. Her local paper, the East Bay Express, named her the Best Podcaster/Blogger Most Dedicated to Social Change in 2007.

Britt speaks and leads workshops about blogging, podcasting, how nonprofits can use social media, and how people can create work they love. She has spoken and done trainings for events like the Bioneers, Stanford Women’s Leadership Conference, Making Media Connections Conference, Writing for Change Conference, the United Way of Kern County’s Professional Development Conference for Nonprofits, and the FIELD project’s Scale Academy grantee meeting (a program of the Aspen Institute). Britt interviews individuals involved in creating positive change for her Big Vision Podcast.

I caught up with Britt after her class at the Writers Conference. She shared her insights on podcasting and why some writers have difficulty getting up to speed with the world of blogging and podcasts. To hear what she told me, click on the podcast icon below.

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In the third and final extract from my speech at the Ragan Speechwriters Conference I discuss the technical nits & nats of podcasting.

In this segment I discuss the three main types of podcasting.

My presentation at the 2009 Ragan Speechwriters Conference was delivered at the end of day one of the main event.

It was billed as follows:

Do you want to double or triple the size of your speaker’s audience without even leaving the office? These days you have the power to reach more people, any time of the day by turning your speeches into podcasts and Web postings. By simply putting an audio recording on a Web site and letting people subscribe to a feed, you’ll have a powerful way to extend your speaker’s voice to people not otherwise in the audience. Same with a blog. Unlike a scheduled speech, podcasts and blogs are always available. Drawing on his experiences as an executive communications manager at Hewlett-Packard, Ian Griffin will share best practices from the corporate world and tell you how to:

• Record, edit and post a podcast to the Web and iTunes
• Choose the best options for hosting and distributing podcasts
• Find technical help and information on audio equipment and sound editing software
• Know when it’s appropriate to repurpose a speech to a blog, Web site or podcast

I set up the trusty Flip Mino video camera on a tripod by the projector and let it run. There were only two problems with this. One – I did not realize a light behind me was too bright and my face was obscured when I stood at the podium. Two – I would occasionally wander off-camera, out of shot.

Despite these limitations, the video and sound was sufficient to capture the content. It’s a nice supplement to my audio resource Podcasting 101. I guess this is Podcasting, Upper Division.

In three parts.

in this extract I discuss the advantages of repurposing a speech, and why an inexpensive digital audio recorder is a speechwriters best friend.

Following Ted Sorenesen’s moving keynote address to the 2009 Ragan Speechwriters Conference, Laure Vincent of MasterCard Worldwide won the first Annual Theodore C. Sorensen Speechwriting Award for best organizational speech of the year. The text of her speech, written for Walt Macnee, President, Global Markets, MasterCard Worldwide is
available here.

It was delivered to an audience of 2,000 in Sao Paulo, Brazil on August 28, 2008.

I caught up with Laurie after the presentation and asked her how she felt about winning the award and something about the background to the speech.

To hear what she told me, click on the podcast icon below.

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