Live today, Monday August 16th, 2010 – 5pm Pacific, 7pm Central, 8pm Eastern

News at AskAdria

Today’s show will be the last AskAdria…for a while

Just returned from BlogHer conference in NYC.  It rocked! #blogher10

Heading to Gnomedex conference in Seattle this week.  #gnomedex

Training for September’s Build Your Own WordPress Website is SOLD OUT

Fear of Changing Your Job

Sometimes people are in jobs they hate. Yet they stay. Why is this?

We’ve all heard the same excuses a thousand times before

• No one is hiring now
• What if I find a new job and it doesn’t work out?
• I won’t find a job as good as this one with the benefits
• I’m working full time and don’t have a chance to followup during the work week
• I would love to move to XYZ but I don’t know where to start
• I don’t know the first thing about so I have to stick to what I know

and so on.

There are millions of jobs out there right now and you can create your own from scratch.
Today I’ll talk about a few people I’ve encountered who have done just that.

GET OVER YOURSELF!

We’ll explore

• Why people look for new jobs
• Where to find the jobs
• How to figure out what you want to do
• Planning a move to another city

I also have an announcement that AskAdria will be taking a break from the weekly QnA to regroup.

Why people look for a new job

• They hate their boss
• They hate what they do
• They hate their coworkers
• They don’t feel they are properly compensated
• They want to switch careers

Where to find jobs

• Careerbuilder.com
• Monster.com
• Salary.com
• Each state has job and salary database
• Twitter
• Networking events

Best way to start networking?  Try Meetup.com to get practice

We all have cell phones these days.  How do you pick a company that will treat you right?

We’ll explore

• AT&T
• Cellular One
• Virgin Mobile/Helio
• Jump Mobile
• Sprint Nextel
• T-Mobile
• U.S. Cellular
• Verizon Wireless

and the rumors of the iPhone being released the end of this year on the T-mobile network

Ever lost a good lead for no reason? Have you ever been excited after meeting a new prospective client and you rush back to your office to share the good news? You email them to say you enjoyed the meeting and get your proposal done quickly so it’s out to them the same week but they don’t respond.

Maybe they’re just not that into your business card.

Today we’ll examine what you can do to make your business cards effective so they can land you a steady stream of high quality clients.

Join us today at 5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern at http://askadria.com/live

We’ll cover:

• When to ask for a business card
• When to offer
• What contact info should be on it?
• Place to bring business cards
• Signs of high quality business cards
• Signs of low quality business cards
• Where to get business cards
• Cost of business cards
• Finding graphics
• Turn around time
• process to make business cards
• Do weird business cards payoff?

and more!

Where to get business cards

I am in love with my business cards from Moo.com because I always get compliments, they arrive in the mail with no hassle and I can customize them any way I like.  You get a two sided business card with a full color photo on the back.  You can add your logo on the front if you like but I keep it simple.

You can pick up cards at your local OfficeMax or Kinkos in batches of 250 starting at $20.  There’s also Vistaprint but please oh please, get the “Printed at Vistaprint.com” removed from the back side!

photo credit: Tomodo Photography

photo credit: Photom72

We were busy this weekend trying to either cook burgers (ouch!) or eat them (nomnomnom)!

@s0l_uk attacked by frying pan

@adriarichards about to devour burger on roof deck

Model: 3G

28 minutes

Do you print out directions when you go somewhere new?
Ever get frustrated that your sales people arrived late to a client site?

Well, take a look at picking up a TomTom GPS device that you can take with you to save time and reduce frustration when getting around town!

Today I’ll cover why I picked up a TomTom One 130 (Amazon link) even though I don’t own a car in San Francisco and how I plan to use it when renting a Zipcar, traveling out of state and to cut down on entering addresses multiple times on my computer, phone and navigation system. I paid just $59.99 for a refurbished model vs $89.99 and it is in perfect condition with a full 1 year warranty.

GPS stands for Global Positioning Service and in devices like the TomTom is has 3 parts:

• The hardware
• The software
• The GPS unit

You input where you want to go and a voice with visual directions gets you there. I find the ability to choose the voices to be one of the most fun parts of using a GPS system. Something that was once frustrating becomes enjoyable.

TomTom isn’t the only game out there. Garmin is another popular brand. You can also use GPS on your smartphones but as I warn in the show, it’s a big battery drain. Also, these GPS devices last a week without recharging vs your standard iPhone 3GS which doesn’t even last a day. I owned a TomTom a few years ago and just loved it!

From the chat

s0l_uk: The Live show will be starting in just over 15 mins.. ^_^
s0l_uk: Hi guys! Adria will be along shortly ^_^
jacqueb: hi all
s0l_uk: Hi bob, Jacque
bob: hi
bob changed their nickname to Keith
s0l_uk: please stand by…. technical hiccup >_<……
s0l_uk: better!!!
Keith: very good
Phyllis: are we really live now?
Keith: windows is evil
Phyllis: who’s IOWA – I’m IN Iowa…
Keith: did you move to san fran yet?
jacqueb: 20? :-(
jacqueb: we miss you tho
s0l_uk: tweeted on askadria account
Keith: what’s the weather like?
Phyllis: I wanted to view this from my Droid – but I guess not yet
jacqueb: wit h shorter time we best all be on time and never miss!
Keith: it was 94 in mass
Bruce: Hi from Chicago
Phyllis: seriously – IOWA – me too
Phyllis: i love my built-in GPS in the Droid
Keith: i just started a twitter ITPro25
s0l_uk: Hi Bruce
jacqueb: keith what is IPTro25?
s0l_uk: *waves to all* Hi guys!
Keith: my twitter name
jacqueb: oh “duh”
Bruce: Hi s0l_uk
s0l_uk: hump month! All downhill till Xmass ^_^
Bruce: Oprah Jr.
Bruce: 100K Wow!
s0l_uk: Woo! ^_^
Keith: system
Keith: michael scott almost drowned because of a gps
Keith: lol
Bruce: Location Based Services
s0l_uk: lol
Keith: do you drive in san fran or take public transportation?
Bruce: Un box Me Baby!
s0l_uk: lol
Phyllis: why would you want a GPS when phones have them now? just curious…
Bruce: GPS is a mega battery drain in cells
s0l_uk: it can be a drain on bettery…
Phyllis: I have my droid hooked up in the car with a line going into the lighter to keep it charged – but yeah – that would be an issue if not plugged in
Keith: michael scott would be a perfect voice
Keith: or moss from IT Crowd
Phyllis: I do wish I could change the voice on the droid gps – guess that would be a google maps voice?
s0l_uk: lol Keith
Phyllis: lattitude does that in droid – sorry – I really like my droid lol
s0l_uk: Nokia + Google have free GPS updates..
SoldierKnowsBest: hello
s0l_uk: Phillis had a question on formspring i think
s0l_uk: Hi SoldierKnowsBest
Phyllis: that was my questions lol
Phyllis: about the Droid
CaliforniaKing: j
CaliforniaKing: What’s up SKB!
Theworldoftech: heya
Keith: hey soldier
s0l_uk: Hi guys!
Theworldoftech: Hey
joshh: iPhone4? thoughts
Phyllis: yoda?
Theworldoftech: I speak to jon4lakers:)
CaliforniaKing: SKB, who is this? lol I just clicked the link you tweeted :)
s0l_uk: Lost with yoda you will be!
Phyllis: lol
Theworldoftech: what are you unboxing?
Theworldoftech: what are you unboxing
s0l_uk: TomTom GPS
Bruce: Send me some Ghirardelli Chocolate from San Fran!
Theworldoftech: skype name?
s0l_uk: :D lol nice sticker
Bruce: You Wish
joshh: what are your top 5 cell phone right now?
Keith: its on IFC
s0l_uk: lol!!
joshh: Top 5 cell phones right now?
jacqueb: can you send me link from sol?
Bruce: HTC EVO
Phyllis: how can you view it?
Keith: you can watch it on IFC
Phyllis: online?
s0l_uk: it’s UK only show at the moment…
jacqueb: Phyllis seasons 1-3 on itunes
Phyllis: thanks
Greggaz: hey
s0l_uk: there’s 2 types of GPS for mobiles A-GPS and Network GPS
Phyllis: but I only use it in the car – and I can plug it in
jacqueb: well work price – so funny!
Greggaz: what is this
Greggaz: soldierknows best tweeted
Greggaz: dunno what this is though
Phyllis: again – love the droid – and the gps is awesome
Bruce: Off to see the Wizard…bye, bye
s0l_uk: A-GPS uses your servers on your mobile network to work out your location. Network GPS uses the tower locations to work out your position both are slower than real GPS
s0l_uk: Fring = freeware Voip software
Phyllis: worked great iowa to NC and back again -
Phyllis: zip car tweet
joshh: Nexus One or the iPhone? which di you prefer
Theworldoftech: nice mac
s0l_uk: jacque check twitter DM ^_~
Keith: iPhone is one to go with
s0l_uk: Nokia N8 ;)
adriarichards mod: http://www.youtube.com/user/soldierknowsbest
Keith: i tweeted for you also
Keith: twitter.com/ITPro25
Keith: i need followers
s0l_uk: skype is not FOSS, Fring is FOSS
s0l_uk: i think …
SoldierKnowsBest: lol
s0l_uk: lol
Theworldoftech: i need subs
Theworldoftech: ::) forget followers i need subs
Theworldoftech: hey soldier
s0l_uk: if you tweet they will come ^_^
SoldierKnowsBest: what’s up
Theworldoftech: nothing man
Theworldoftech: have you got skype ?
Theworldoftech: i love your videos
Keith: i just signed up an hour ago
s0l_uk: Footlong’s!! :D
Theworldoftech: lol i ment subscribers lol
SoldierKnowsBest: lol subs
Theworldoftech: soldiers got more subs than subway :)
s0l_uk: i like subway! :(
Theworldoftech: i only have 42 subs and one of them is Jon4lakers
s0l_uk: lol
s0l_uk: signal braking up! is Video OK for everyone else??
Keith: yeah its jittery
Theworldoftech: soldier a man claimed to be you the other day and told me to f off
Keith: no video now
Keith: back
s0l_uk: ^_^
Theworldoftech: your hungry :D
s0l_uk: #nom!nom!
Theworldoftech: im hungry for subs lol
Keith: hungry hippo
Theworldoftech: toffee crisp?
s0l_uk: sounds like that WorldofTech…
Keith: have you met the twitter folks?
Theworldoftech: yep lol
Theworldoftech: your eating a toffee crisp
s0l_uk: :D
Theworldoftech: with a different name
Theworldoftech: its a toffee crips without the crisp :D
s0l_uk: toffe crisp is soft toffy nougut with ricecrispies on hte top.. all soft :)
Theworldoftech: i got a tech question
s0l_uk: Ok guys! good show adria!
Keith: have you met twitter company?
Theworldoftech: Soldier
s0l_uk: what’s your question TheWorldOfTech?
Theworldoftech: when is your next ustream mate?
Theworldoftech: can you recomend Imac?
Keith: next monday
Theworldoftech: adria
Theworldoftech: can you recomend imac?
Theworldoftech: ?
Keith: google docs
Theworldoftech: i love them
Keith: iMac Quad Core 27 inch just came out
Theworldoftech: have you got skype?
s0l_uk: what’s the Formspring address??
Keith: bye
s0l_uk: Bye guys!
Theworldoftech: bye :)
@adria: Take care everyone! See you next week
Theworldoftech: buy soldeir
jacqueb: Adria, I got it and replied. Bye all
Theworldoftech: ?
Theworldoftech: whats this?
Keith: archived show
Theworldoftech: ok ty
Keith: yup
Theworldoftech: can anyone give me sum tips on how to get subscribers on youtube
Keith: make alot of videos
Theworldoftech: i am mate
Keith: what’s your youtube?
s0l_uk: make interesting videos.
s0l_uk: ^_^
Theworldoftech: http://www.youtube.com/user/Theworldoftechuk
Theworldoftech: thats my channel keith
Keith: thanks i’ll check it out
Theworldoftech: thanks mate
Keith: yup later guy
Keith: see ya everyone
Theworldoftech: cheers
Theworldoftech: bye
s0l_uk: Laters all! come back next Monday
Theworldoftech: bye soldier
SoldierKnowsBest: later
Theworldoftech: keep up the ge
Theworldoftech: great work*
SoldierKnowsBest: thanks
raffi127: whats up mark I just replyed to your tweet about if people are going to wait in line

Back from Washington D.C. for the Blogging While Brown conference, today’s show will be a “Grab Bag” allowing you to ask your technology questions. They can be related to:
Working in IT
Hardware
Cloud Apps
Email
Buying a computer, smartphone or other type of hardware
Setting up or tweaking your WordPress or Joomla website
SEO advice
or anything else computer related

photo credit: blakespot

Are you planning to attend SXSW, Apples WWDC, Web 2.0 Expo, BlogHer, Blogworld, VMWorld or another major conference that isn’t where you live?

Today we will discuss how to save money while traveling to conferences.

photo credit: bigbirdz

Today’s show is on your different option for microphones when doing a video for the Internet.  I’ll share my usb desktop microphones, my wireless headset and lapel mic, all which are great options!

Join us today at 4:30pm Pacific at http://askadria.com/live

The Demand For Internet video

photo credit: Sneaker Peet

We humans have a history of sitting around fires, chatting.  This means we like to see other humans and hear them too.  Remember in the old days of the internet where people would pass around tiny video clips via email?  These links would make the rounds at the office, “Did you see the video yet?  It’s hilarious!” and so on.

YouTube was founded in 2005 and made it easy for anyone to publish a video to the internet.  It removed all the complicated portions and had a big ole upload button.

The power of video has come the Internet.  With 92% of Americans having internet access in their homes, the ability to watch video, and the demand for it keeps going up.

The Hardware

Hands Free microphones are great so you can do your web show and not get distracted by cords.  I often get up during my show to grab stuff for the audience and it would be a hassle to “unhook” first.

Logitech USB Desktop Microphone
$19.99 at Amazon.com
Review: The actual Plantronics microphone I used in 2009 is no longer in production but this is a similar model made my Logitech with over 200 reviews.  What I liked about my Plantronics usb microphone is that it worked well, was simple to setup and didn’t require additional power.  It worked great to do my daily live video show, screencasts, for Skype and audio podcasts.

Audio-Technica AT2020 USB Condenser USB Microphone
$100 at Amazon.com
Review: I love this microphone!  I picked it up over the winter because I wanted deeper sound and the ability to do audio on my macbook.  After going to Blogworld and spending some time at the booth where they had some audio equipment, I knew I needed to step up my game.  This condenser mic comes with it’s own stand but you could put it in a desk mount swing arm (I may do this) as well.  I’m also considering getting a windscreen for it.

Plantronics .Audio 995 Wireless Stereo Headset
$60 at Amazon.com
Review: I love, love, love this headset!  I picked this up last year so I could talk on my Skype calls but walk around the house.  It streams all audio so you can also listen to your movies or music too.  Very convienent, nice quality feel to the ear pieces and people say I sound clear.  Works good until about 30 feet.  Battery life is about 5 hours which is plenty of talk time for me!

Audio Technica ATR-288W VHF Wireless Microphone
$125 at Amazon.com
Review: I bought this system so I could record my speaking gigs.  It allows me to roam on a stage while recording audio to my camcorder.  It comes with a lavilier mic ( lapel mic) and has worked great!