Community Guy – Jake McKee

Latest Snapcast!

Once again Lee, Chris, and I all got together for a brief discussion via Skype. The discussion this week is the Kryptonite story, specifically my email interview with the Kryptonite PR person.

It was a great discussion, and probably the last you’ll hear from me on the subject for a while. Here’s a few links that we referenced in the discussion:

• Johnnie Moore
• Nalgene gives brain damage!
• Bigha blog

All three of us would love to hear your feedback, as well as suggestions for the next podcast.

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New Snapcast – coming soon!

I’m currently preparing the next Community Guy Snapcast – and this one is going to be huge.

I’ve contacted Joe Trippi, Howard Dean’s former campaign manager, and one of the key figures in bringing the Web to the Dean campaign.

Think what you will about Howard Dean’s politics, but you can’t argue with the campaign success, or their acceptance and use of technology.

I’ll be interviewing Joe on 27 April, and will have the Snapcast posted shortly after. I’d like to open up this thread to ask for any potential questions you’d be interested in hearing answered. Not saying I’ll use them all, but I’ll certainly factor them into my planning. You still have time to read his book if you want to prepare!

This is going to be fun!

Podcast – Episode 3

Time for another podcast! This one is being released as a full episode.

This time around, the podcast is a three-way conference call between me, Lee from CommonCraft.com, and Chris from SocialCustomer.com. We spend about 30 mins talking about BzzAgents and Chris’ recent post on the subject.

It was tons of fun, and if Chris and Lee are interested, we’ll be running more of these sessions on the community/social issues of the day.

Direct Download: Episode 3

Snapcast #4

The latest Snapcast is a bit different this time around. Christopher Carfi over at Social Customer Manifesto turned me onto TextAloud, a program that “reads” text with an electronic voice. The program comes standard with a few marginal voices, but the upgraded voices are incredible.

So this Snapcast is actually the reading of a previous blog entry. It’s a big fat experiment, so please make sure to let me know if you think these are understandable and/or interesting. If you like them, I’ll probably start posting a snapcast of the better blog entries in the same format.

Download directly: Snapcast #4

Snapcast #3 – Robin Wolaner Interview

Continuing the review process of Naked in the Boardroom, check out the snapcast interview with the author, Robin Wolaner.

The interview was fun, and we talked a bunch about social networking, including the story about Friendster and Typepad joining forces.

Snapcast #2

After recording Snapcast #2 today, Lee from CommonCraft.com and I continued on and did another one. The second one focused on Lee’s trip to the Blog Business Summit. (The trip that I was very jealous of!).

Some of the links discussed:

• Blog Business Summit
• Lee’s post on the event
• Scoble’s Corporate Blogging Manifesto
• Chris Pirillo
• Haley’s Comment
• Nancy White’s Blog

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Snapcast #1

So I’ve coined a new term (I think) – Snapcast. It’s a short, down and dirty podcast. The idea is that between my big episodes, I’ll be posting quick (10-15 minutes) podcasts of a specific subject.

The first snapcast is an interview with Lee LeFever from CommonCraft.com. The interview focuses on Lee’s recent trip to Nothern Voice.

Some of the links from the discussion:

• Northern Voice
• Lee’s post on Northern Voice
• iloveradio.org
• Tod Maffin
• Share Your Story

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Podcast – Car Test

I was playing around today while driving around town. I’m testing some options for podcasting via phone in my car.

Here’s a short podcast to test it out.

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Podcast #2

Show notes for Podcast #2!

• I Love Radio

Community Related News

• IBM contributes 500 patents to the public
• www.GOP.com/Party
• Strangerhood.com
• New Jib Jab animation out
• Amazon builds internal developer community with DevCon
• Amazon Customer Images
• Post Election Blog Funk

Community Related Discussion

• Defining a Community Liaison

Web Site Reviews

• Common Craft

GarageBand.com Artist of the Week

• BB Chung King and the Buddaheads – Company Graveyard

And as always, please let me know what you think by emailing me at jake AT countersinkdg DOT com, or calling the comment line at 206.202.BLOG!

Direct download of Episode 2!

Podcast #1

Well, it’s done! The first podcast! It’s rough, it’s ugly, but it’s done! I’m going to work to improve… well, just about everything over the course of the next few episodes. I’m going to do my best to do one a week!

As the opening music, I’ve selected a great song by a great GarageBand.com artist: BB Chung King and the Buddaheads – Company Graveyard

Show Notes:

• Slashdot Review
• NetFlix Friends
• LEGO Ambassador Announcement
• USA Today Story – Armstrong Williams gets paid
• GarageBand.com
• RIp and Read
• Dyson

GarageBand.com featured artist: Beth Waters – Ask the Sky

This podcast is, obviously, my first. If you have any feedback, please feel free to email me. I’d love to get feedback! – jakeATcountersinkdgDOTcom

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