From PMNE2007- Offerings from New Media Expo for the Entrepreneur
September 29th, 2007
In this bonus supplement episode of The Struggling Entrepreneur, we give you a few of the offerings that we have seen and investigated at the Exhibit hall during the Podcast and New Media Expo in Ontario, California, on 28 September 2007.
The day began with the inaugural meeting of the Association of Downloadable Media. This organization is in the infant stages of trying to create an industry association to standardize on metrics–especially for advertisers. I myself did nominate Rob Walch (host of podcast411.com and the other podcast, Today in iPhone) for an elected position as chairman of the committe for Education and Outreach. There were others nominated as well–but that is information for a whole other podcast episode for those interested in this topic.
We then attended the keynote session with Howard Linzon (creator of Wallstrip) being interviewed by Tim Bourquin (founder of the Podcast and New Media Expo). This session format was different–usually keynotes turn out to be presentations (one-to-many) by an individual. However, the interview format chosen by Tim Bourquin kept the pace moving and made the session refreshingly different, and it was anything but boring.
Then, on to the show floor of the Exhibit hall. Here, there were some hardware and software vendors, but there were also some suppliers for services for the small business owners and Entrepreneurs:
- Noble Transcription Services provides a range of text, editing and transcription services for the Entrepreneur–and at an affordable price range, which is extremely competitive. I myself have used them for transcripts for this series, The Struggling Entrepreneur, and they have been able to deliver transcripts (in both MS Word and pdf format with active links) in less than 24 hours. Yes, that’s right! Overnight. I would definitely recommend them for a small business or entrepreneur or online marketer or podcaster.
In addition, here are some other services and suppliers that I did mention in the brief audio episode for this podcast:
- Revver (for video blogging) ;
- tubemogul (for deploying your videos to other video engines);
- Podcast Pickle with a show special advertisement on the Podcast Pickle directory;
- RawVoice and the Podcaster Network with their statistics offering;
- intellipodcast with the offering to have recordings done online for independents or for small business/entrepreneurs.
- stomperNet for internet marketing services.
- Adobe Audition was exhibiting Version 3.0, with an upgrade price at the show; and
- Camtasia Studio (screen capture software for creating demonstrations or synchronizing with PowerPoint presentations) was also being demonstrated.
There is more detail in the audio portion of this special Expo Edition of this podcast episode. We hope you have enjoyed listening, if you yourself could not attend the conference.
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