From PhoneCasting to Interactive Podcasting: Nokia, WordPress, FeedBurner, innerTOOB Presenting Seminars at the Online International Podcasting Expo

Canton, GA (PRWEB) October 21, 2006

70+% of 2007 cars are being built with iPod-ready sound systems, and 60+ million people own iPods and MP3 Players. Almost 1 billion cell phones will be sold in the US alone in 2006. 75% of all media player owners are projected to download at least one podcast.

This weekend (October 20-22, 2006), entrepreneurs will gather together at the Online International Podcasting Expo to learn why major companies like Nokia are entering the Podcast Industry. Steven Stewart of Nokia will present an online audio/visual seminar open to the public about Nokia’s newest podcast compatible phone, and their proprietary podcasting tools and services. Michael Sharp of Phonecasting.com will also explain the inevitable growth of podcasting into the cellular phone arena.

Carter Harkins of innerTOOB has developed an online tool that allows podcasters and listeners to imbed audio, visual and text comments at different time codes within a podcast. innerTOOB’s players also lets podcasters include “chapters” and titles within a podcast. Dave Nelsen’s TalkShoe is a unique combination of teleconference lines combined with online conferencing abilities. TalkShoe also offers podcasters an opportunity to be paid for their podcasts by allowing advertising to be attached to their shows. Both of these podcasting tools are free.

The Online International Podcasting Expo will also include training sessions on free recording, editing and mixing software for both PC and Mac users. Penny Haynes of 1st Podcast Publishing, and Organizer of the Expo, will teach Beginning Wavepad Recording and Editing. Doug Snodgrass of the WilFlipson Show will teach Advanced Wavepad Editing. Jerry Franklin will teach Advanced Audacity techniques. Free downloads of WavePad, MixPad and Audacity will be provided during the seminars.

Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress, and Andy Wibbels, the original blog evangelist and author of BlogWild!, on the Fortune recommended reading list, will teach Podcasters how they can increasing their search engine rankings by adding blogging to their podcast. FeedBurner’s Eric Olson and PodPress’ Dan Kuykendall will teach you how to take your WordPress blog and turn it into a Podcast feed. George Smyth, the President of the Association of Music Podcasting, will show you where to find legal music for your podcast, and Dave Jackson of the School of Podcasting will teach you about the different audio formats you can use.

These are just a sample of the 40+ online seminars and networking events being presented this weekend. All ticket holders will receive free recording and editing software, training, and downloads of all of the recorded events. For more information, go to http://www.InternationalPodcastingExpo.com.

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Putting Money Where Her Mouth is, Motivational Speaker Offers Her Seminars to Domestic Violence Victims and Others Without Means to Pay

New York, NY (PRWEB) December 13, 2006

When she balances the budget for her seminars, Susan Elliott always leaves room for scholarships. Though her business, Get Past Your Past, or GPYP, is not yet breaking even, she doesn’t want to forget those who probably need it the most.

Coming out of a bad marriage 20 years ago, Elliott depended on others to help her in a time when she didn’t have any money and 3 small children to raise. Although she is now a full-time corporate lawyer and part-time real estate broker, Elliott founded her business as a way to give back what was given to her 20 years ago. She developed the GPYP program over several years as an academic and therapist. After studying how people change and how change becomes permanent, she developed GPYP from “the best of the best” of what she found. At first it was for her own edification, but soon became a model she used to help others. Today she’s happy, healthy, pretty well off and proof that GPYP works. Still, she never forgots where she comes from.

Elliott grew up a foster child and later adopted into an alcoholic home. She gravitated toward very abusive people and dangerous situations and her first marriage was a disaster. One night in 1987 she left the marriage without a job and with 3 little kids. At first she felt helpless and hopeless, but went on to build a nice life that includes a BA from Mount Holyoke College where she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, an M.Ed. from Cambridge College, a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, a real estate business and wonderful relationships with her children and her husband of ten years. She says, “You don’t build what I’ve built without the help of people who helped me believe in myself.” Never forgetting how it felt to start over with nothing, she founded GPYP in New York City last year teaching seminars at the Learning Annex, teaching and speaking through her own company and writing the accompanying book.

People from all walks of life attend the seminars, including successful business people looking for a shot of motivation and people new to the city looking to connect. Elliott says, “Adult non-credit education is a big thing in New York. Motivational seminars are very well-attended by all kinds of people, usually driven people looking for focus or people starting over, looking for a change in direction.” She hopes that within each audience are people who need a better life. “I want to reach people who were once like me, in desperate need to change their lives. A lot of DV relationships are about control, and the abuser keeps tight tabs on the money. The abused partner could never explain spending money on a seminar.” She adds that most DV victims are not necessarily going to think that they can find hope in a “motivational” seminar but she says her seminars teach how to set goals and achieve them, “If they come here, they will find a lot of hope as well as practical instruction. If I can do it, anyone can. And I show them how.”

Elliott hopes that her seminars will continue to attract enough paying clients that she can give scholarships to every seminar and class. If her seminar on February 10th has enough paid registrations, she already has a waiting list for scholarships. She says, “I hope I can open the door to everyone who wants to come.”

To register for the February 10th seminar, go to the GPYP website (http://www.GettingPastYourPast.com) or (http://GettingPastYourPast.wordpress.com).

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Putting Money Where Her Mouth is, Motivational Speaker Offers Her Seminars to Domestic Violence Victims and Others Without Means to Pay