Digital tech news, tutorials, experience guides that we create while working on YouTube, Podcasting, WordPress and Mailchimp projects from sunny Brisbane.
Podcast Portfolio Picks
Latest Episodes Here are some of the latest episodes from our fabulous portfolio of podcast productions. Regardless of their own target audiences, they're guaranteed to feed your dinner table conversation...
How to Write Podcast Edit Notes
This article will give you a clear understanding of how and why to provide structured edit notes for audio and video producers. If you're paying a podcast or video editor...
What difference does a microphone make ? Podcast recording tips
I recently had a great illustration of the difference that a good microphone can make to a podcast recording. To record remote guests, I get best results from the calling...
Unable To Play. Something went wrong. Try Again Later
Unable to play, Something went wrong. Try again later. Look familiar ? This is an iOS-specific problem that occurs when trying to stream podcasts in Apple Podcasts on iPad or...
Take Control – Podcast Interview Technique
If you're a podcast host who conducts interviews, we've compiled a few learning notes to help you build your verbal Kung Fu skills. Previously, I wrote about recording, structure and...
Podcast Interview : Pre-Flight Checklist
It's always good to send your guests some advance information or a checklist to orient them in how the interview will work, your expectations and optionally, your questions. Some of...
Word Wars – Podcast Interview Technique
Make no mistake, a podcast interview with a guest can be war. Odd learned behaviours, battles for conversational supremacy, promotional and conceptual agendas - they all come out. Your mission...
What’s The Story ? Podcast Interview Technique
From a listeners (and podcast editors) point of view, the worse kind of podcast interview is one where the interviewer has no idea on the story that they are trying...
How To Record A Podcast Interview
Let's start with two important considerations before getting too deep into tools and techniques - 1. There is more than one way to record a podcast 2. The best way...
SEO to Sales Conversion
We all learn in different ways and my learning has most often come from practical observations from making and doing things. Problem solving by application of core concepts is always...
Does my List look big in this?
Let's face it, we all love to see a nice big mailing list. We get to work with a good number of clients who are aiming to build an email...
A YouTube Channel is Not Just For Christmas
Embarking on the journey of growing an audience on a new channel is a challenge that many of us have undertaken. We see lots of people pinning their hopes on...
How to Add a Data Dashboard to WordPress
I've been doing some work for one of my clients to sum all of their digital headlines into an easy to view daily dashboard using Google Data Studio. My mission...
Water Cooler Games – Festival 2018 Commonwealth Games
The Water Cooler Games was a human art installation gathering together 40 suited participants - carrying briefcases and mobile phones - for a race along the beach, followed by a...
How To Change Your Skype Username
Registering for a new Skype account has changed and become far less user friendly since Microsoft's acquisition of the software in 2011. So, here's a use case that I have...
The Holy Trinity of Content Strategy
Driving Growth We are really familiar with integrating a mix of digital platforms that have become very popular among our clients: YouTube broadcasting, a Wordpress-based website to host articles and...
7 Tips to Make Your YouTube Channel Pop
Our experience of managing YouTube channels for organisations and individuals has given us a first hand insight into what happens when you manage your channel well. None of the tips...
WordPress Doctor
Our new service comes as a result of seeing similar situations come up time and time again over many years. Wordpress is a great system and gives you a huge...
Public Speaking Showreel
The brief We had an interesting request from diet and lifestyle author, Phil Escott to produce a promo showreel video. This was intended to promote his services for speaking engagements,...
We fell in love
I first visited Australia in Summer, 2013 for family reunions and holidays in Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Returning to the intense, grey bustle of London I swapped work as...
Google Archive
We developed a partnership with the Google Cultural Institute to create an online exhibit on their GCI platform. The first digital exhibit showcased a small part of the 80 year...
Dance Tour Trailer
We worked with London Studio Centre to create trailers for their two post-graduate touring dance companies. The company supplied us with two camera performance recording footage from which we cut...
VHS Analog Video Noise on Tape
As part of my old Digital Producer job at The Place, London around 2014, I had to capture many batches of old VHS video tape cassettes from the extensive archive...