Ustream - cover your events LIVE for free and with little effort!
Recently OncouRSS was asked by the town of Missoula, Montana to cover the US National Team trials for freestyle kayaking. Their goal was to bring the world to their town and to this event… in hopes of attracting more paddlers, visitors and competitors in the years to come. We did so with a laptop, a wifi access and 3 web cams. The end result was 174,000 viewers over 4 days of...
Read MoreGreat to see that facebook pages are letting band page owners cross-reference their events to their group
Tell Mama has some gigs coming up in April that we’re really excited about and I finally took the time on the weekend to create a facebook event to promote the first one on April 7th at The Supermarket in Toronto. I wasn’t looking forward to doing it because, at this point, it seemed that I have to create a new event for my group page and another for my band page just to get the...
Read MoreFacebook - a must for event planners
So, finished stacking up your friends’ list yet? Me neither. As with many social networking sites, quite often we reach that “Nemo moment”, you know, the spot where we’re all in our own plastic bag floating in the bay after a brilliant escape… “Now what?”. Well, a quick answer is start using Facebook as your event promotional tool. Being the...
Read MorePodcasting - good, bad or ugly?
Shelley interviews podcast specialist, Leesa Barnes, on the value of podcasting as a method of propelling your business forward and drawing traffic to your website. [display_podcast] Leesa Barnes - BIO Working with management teams, entrepreneurs and businesses, Leesa Barnes teaches insider tips on how to open doors, generate leads and make money using a podcast. Leesa has been featured in...
Read MoreThe cart before the horse, the chicken before the egg?
Getting started with a web site is always a really big job - gathering content, designing look and feel, managing navigation - knowing when the time is right to start driving traffic to it is an important question. Wordpress blog sites make this concern almost a non-issue. It is still important to get information on the site but, with RSS feeds and sites that exist solely to provide content for...
Read MoreSocial Media Networks - the ultimate tradeshow… so what about our web site?
“OK. James, so where do I get involved? Should I set up a Facebook account? VOX? Linked In? Damn, there are so many out there! What about my own web site, how does that fit in?” Can’t tell you how many times I get that series of questions. Social media only works if you’re… well… social. You need to work your social media presence… no matter what the...
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