Your Story : How We Play the Game of Life

Last week end I had a chance to make a presentation at BarCamp Brisbane. BarCamp is basically a geekfest, where pasty technophiles talk about stuff like code optimisation etc. Things that I know nothing of but since starting down this path of learning about the interwebs and how it works to produce content I’ve realised that I need to mix with those that know a lot more than me. For that reason I’ve taken a keen interest in twitter in particular as it is my conduit to all things informative and changing in this world that I’m learning.

Because of twitter friends and being involved in putting together a couple of twitter meetups I was invited to attend so I chose to speak.

My presentation was basically about what I’m doing here and how challenging the technology is and to thank all the geeks out there for producing the things that enable me to do this. Most of all I wanted to encourage them to continue to progress the tools to make it easier to produce what we’re really here for, Content!

It’s been quite a while since I’ve given any form of presentation and I enjoyed weaving a story of the struggles of this technology and how with perseverance it’s possible to overcome the issues but most of all it was good for me to tell what I’m doing and to sound out if there is an interest in Your Story

I would not be here doing this if it wasn’t for all those super bright geeks working late into the night living on pizza & coke getting off on what I’d be brain dead attempting. So I’d just like to say thank you to all of you for helping to give the rest of the world these amazing tools that enable us to generate things like Your Story.

You’ve given me more than you will ever appreciate.

Thanks

 

 Your Story Addendum Ep 4 [4:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome To Episode 4 of Your Story Addendum.

Well the trip and testing of my method is over and I’m on my way home to Brisbane.
What I’ve learnt is that I can do this and that I have a lot of support from people as I travel to help me. I’m a little surprised that when I mention the idea that I’m collecting stories everyone seems to think it’s a great idea, which is heartening as I think it’s a good idea as well but I’m being utterly self indulgent with this show so I don’t necessarily think others will rock with the idea. Surprisingly they often do.

I need to continue to get faster at the post production of the episodes as I’ve found that I can spend a huge amount of time on the tiding up of the audio and I still don’t have it any where the standard that I want to eventually get to. I’d like if possible to be able to spend no more than twice the audio recording time in post production if I can. At the moment I’m probably spending about four times as long in post. Hopefully I’ll just get faster.

As I’ve mentioned before I don’t have much experience at travelling and this trip was to get me familiar with it again. That has worked brilliantly and it was a good idea to do it in a local but unfamiliar city rather than waiting until I get to Berlin and have the additional issues of culture and language.

So Melbourne went well. I’m a bit behind in getting the episodes out so I’ll attempt to get them out in the next week. Then I need to get the last of the things organised for the Eurodessy which is only five weeks away.

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Music is from Ray in the Stairwell

 

 Your Story Addendum Ep 1 [2:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome To Episode One of Your Story Addendum.

Today is the start of Your Story Addendum a mini podcast episode of the things that I observe as I travel to Melbourne initially where I’ll practice this technique as preparation for heading to Europe in July.

These episodes are recorded as MP3’s and aren’t edited as I want to get them out easily with the minimum of fuss. They are intended to have the information that is additional to the main podcast that would take away from it because of the more personal nature of it, hence the name.

They in no way are to replace the main podcast episodes which will still be fully produced and is the main reason for having Your Story.

Please hang around I hope to put a lot up in the next week a lot of interesting personal stories and maybe a few f my observations.

Thanks for coming on the ride with me.

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In the back ground things are happening. Here is one of them…

There is a lot of things that need to be done to get this site and the podcast up to speed but one thing that I’ve learnt is that I don’t have to get everything right immediately and that it’s alright to just make do until I get something new into place.

One of the things is to get all the different options that are now available onto the site so that you can follow me in my travels to Melbourne and Europe which are mentioned at the top of the site.

I want you to be able if you chose to read, look, listen and watch me as I travel and meet people.

I’m still putting some things into place but what I’m managing to have a crack at today is to post a piece of video courtesy of seesmic so I can chat directly to you and give you a brief summary of what I’m up to and have a bit of a practice at using the technology.

Here it is…

Your Story is off to Melbourne “}

I was thinking tonight about this process of building this podcast and the amount of effort that I’ve put into it not to mention the amount that I still need to do in order to get it up to speed.

In a previous post I mentioned that I’ve come from a base of no geek knowledge and everything I know about blogs, internet 2.0 and Podcasts I’ve learnt in the last 12 month. At times it’s been totally overwhelming the amount of knowledge that I’ve had to learn. However the advantage of having no idea of what I’m doing is that I’ve also had no idea of how much I had to learn.

Today, was an interesting experience.

I was contacted on twitter for a meetup in a couple of days and I thought that a WordPress blog would be a good way to set up a portal for information for interested people to get together and get the information as to where and when.

A WordPress blog eight months was my first taste of blogging and it took a day to set up and weeks to configure and understand. I’ve since set up five blogs for people including my mother. Well today I set up a new one in an hour and I thought, Wow I’ve come a long way and hadn’t realised it.

I just finished editing another podcast episode and as in every episode I did a couple of things that I hadn’t done before and I think it is the best to date. Mind you every episode should be the best to date I hope but on reflection I was overwhelmed in how much I still had to learn. Then I thought back to setting up the blog earlier.

I know that I have so much to still learn and at times it feels like I’ll never get there. I’ve bought a heap of new technology to help me to be mobile and produce this podcast on the road and the amount that I have to learn on top of everything else is well. Wow! But just look at how far I’ve come in 12 months.

One thing I’ve learnt over the years is that I don’t have to know everything to get started. I just need to know enough to do the first thing and I can learn the bits that I need after that as I go along and as I need them. If I’d tried to learn everything before I started I would still be reading the books and wouldn’t have done a thing.

So I’m pleased that I have 13 episodes up a wealth of knowledge and plans for the future. There is still heaps to learn, understand and practice but that’s the journey of life and anyway if I knew it all I know I would get bored so it’s great that each day there is something new to get a grip of.